FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT WITH NESTOIL PLC

Nestoil Plc was incorporated in Nigeria in 1991 for provision of Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) services to the oil & gas industry. We are the indigenous EPC provider for major IOCs (International Oil Companies) in Sub-Saharan Africa. We have a pool of talented goal driven professionals, and are looking for an experienced qualified Financial Accountant to join our Finance team.

JOB TITLE: FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT
LOCATION: Lagos
JOB SUMMARY:
To manage and analyze financial control systems and processes with professional expertise so as to deliver prompt and quality results
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Managing Cash flow:
Taking action as required reducing outstanding debt, overseeing cash collection to improve effectiveness
Accounting, Financial Reporting and Compliance:
Writing daily key data, monthly statutory/management accounts report (P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash flow), forecasts, debtor control and cash forecasts, maintaining all accounting records, Reconcile all accounts on a regular basis, including bank account reconciliations.
Managing Sales Ledger:
Overseeing the prompt preparation and issue of sales invoices, maintaining the sales ledger, monitoring distributors against agreed sale targets.
Monitoring sales against targets for Lebara sales teams, ensuring correct payment of commission, reconciliation of statements.
Managing Banking and Payments.
Team Management and Communication
QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:
Strong Persuading & Influencing skill
Planning & Organizing skill
IT skills Microsoft suite with emphasis on Excel(Intermediate/Advance)
Experience in SAP would be an added advantage
Strong analytical skills.
Good written and verbal communication skill
Strong Leadership and influencing skills
Minimum B.Sc (Minimum second Class lower) in Accounting from a reputable university.
ACCA (level 3) with extensive post qualification experience in a commercial environment.
5 – 7 years in financial control systems and process
CLICK LINK TO APPLY
http://www.nestoilgroup.com/job-details.php?job_id=25
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 6/4/2012.

JOB FOR DEALER ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE WITH MTN Nigeria

LOCATION: Benue

RESPONSIBILITIES
Evaluate potential and existing dealers business indicators as per TSP Grading Criteria within the regions
Determine number of sales points required to achieve sales targets
Monitor sales performance trends for all accounts
Develop a short term action plan/ strategy to assist distributors in achieving desired indicators
Identify and attend to specific distributor needs and resolve problems
Evaluate customer complaints and drive corrective actions.
Provide information to the customer regarding appropriate policies, procedures and operating practices; as well as competitor activities.
Build and maintain relationships with the dealers.
Participate in organizing dealer forums
Liaise with other relevant Departments (Marketing, Financial Operations, Channels) to ensure the sales process is uninterrupted and sales targets are achieved
QUALIFICATION/EXPERIENCE
A tertiary qualification – Preferably in the social sciences
Four (4) years marketing experience in a fast moving consumer goods (FCMG) environment
Account management experience.
CLICK LINK TO APPLY
http://careers.mtnonline.com/vacancies.asp?deptid=10&id=1794
Not later than 4/4/2012.

Boko Haram kills three in Maiduguri

By The Nation Reporter (Joseph Abiodun)

 

Boko Haram

A Police Inspector and two of his friends yesterday became the latest casualties of the fundamentalist Boko Haram onslaught in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
The sect had on Saturday opened fire on a Joint Task Force (JTF) team along the Abagannaram/Railway Quarters in Maiduguri, leaving no fewer than 10 people dead.
After a gunfight between the sect and the military between 5:30pm and 7:15pm, the JTF claimed three members of the sect were killed.
Also during the Saturday siege, the sect members were said to have brought a rocket launcher which they used in attacking Lamisula Police Station. 
Many residents, who were caught up by the curfew, passed the night on the road. 
About 10 explosions were heard across the metropolis. Some policemen were reported killed and injured in the gun duel between the JTF and the fundamentalists. 
On yesterday’s attack, JTF spokesman Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa, said three persons, including a retired police inspector and two of his friends, were shot dead by the militants.
Lt.-Col. Musa said: “Some suspected members of Boko Haram on a Keke NAPEP (tricycle) attacked one of the JTF, Operation Restore Order 1, location at Dala Kafanti in Maiduguri city. The attack was repelled, with the sect members retreated through narrow paths to different locations.
“They later reorganised and shot at a retired police inspector and two of his friends, right in front of his house.”
Lt.-Col. Musa said after the incident, which occurred at about 1:45pm, the area was cordoned off and searched, but no culprit was arrested and no weapon was recovered.
Normalcy has since been restored to the area.

SSS steps up search for abducted German

By The Nation Reporter (Yusuf Alli)

 

Edgar Fritz Raupach

•Boko Haram demands release of detained woman •How sect’s faction betrayed Abu Mohammed group

SECURITY agents are battling to locate the whereabouts of a German, Edgar Fritz Raupach, who is believed to have been taken hostage by Boko Haram, the dreaded Islamic sect in whose custody two foreigners died three weeks ago.
Briton Christopher McManus and Italian Franco Lamolinara were killed by the Abu Mohammed faction of Boko Haram, which is believed to have links with al-Qaeda, the international terrorist group.
Raupach has been held hostage since January by the Abu Mohammed faction of Boko Haram, The Nation learnt.
The hostage takers appear to have the backing of Al-Qaeda, following the alleged arrest and detention of a Muslim woman, Oum Seif Allah Al Ansari, in Germany.
It was learnt that the al-Qaeda – backed Boko Haram faction is demanding immediate release of Oum Seif Allah Al Ansarim, who is being held in a prison, as a precondition for freeing the German hostage.
A source, who pleaded not to be named because of the “sensitivity” of the matter, said: “The agencies are investigating the claim of al-Qaeda links with the kidnapped German in Kano and the swap demand for a detained woman, who is a Muslim, in Germany.
“Security agencies are working round the clock to free this German who was kidnapped in Kano.
“This is another challenge but with effective collaboration, we should be able to locate the whereabouts of the hostage.”
Another source said: “We are working on a tip-off that al-Qaeda had worked in collaboration with Abu Mohammed faction of Boko Haram to kidnap the German in Kano. Some clues are suggesting that the German might either be in Kano or somewhere in North Africa.
“But security agencies are not relenting in locating the German hostage either in Kano or elsewhere.”
It was also gathered at the weekend that a faction of Boko Haram provided intelligence for the arrest of the late Mohammed and others on March 7 in Zaria. The arrest provoked the killing of the two hostages in Mabera Estate, Sokoto.
According to sources, security agencies have established that Boko Haram was able to hold on to the murdered hostages for 10 months because of alleged sophisticated equipment and external backing from al-Qaeda and others.
A security source said: “The Abu Mohammed men appear well-trained, organised, with weapons and armoury that security agents are still unravelling their linkages.
“This sophistication of the faction, apparently aided externally, readily showed in their ability to keep the two hostages away from the extensive security hunt for 10 months. This gives a lie to the belief that the security agencies have acquired equipment that could track terrorists anywhere in Nigeria.
“Security experts say no Third World country, considering their lean income, can afford such equipment.”
Another source said: “A faction of the Boko Haram might have directly or indirectly given the intelligence that led to the arrests of the late Abu Mohammed and his men in Adamawa, Katsina, Kaduna, Sokoto Kebbi and their routing during a Shura Council (highest decision making body) meeting in Layin Hanwa in Zaria and the subsequent rescue mission in Mabera Estate in Sokoto.
“Do not forget that Abu Mohammed broke away and ran a faction of the Boko Haram, until he was arrested March 7, after a gun battle with security agents. He died March 9 from gunshot wounds.
“This is to show you that there is deep division within Boko Haram. As a matter of fact, the death of Mohammed and the arrest of some of his men is said to have elicited jubilation in the camp the other faction that variously described the Mohammed faction and men as traitors and betrayers.”
The State Security Service (SSS) paraded eight sect members arrested in connection with the kidnapping and killing of the Briton and the Italian.
Three of those arrested -Bashir Ibrahim (aka Adda’u); Ibrahim A. Habibu; and Gambo Maiborodi – allegedly carried out surveillance on the hostages in Kebbi State before they were abducted on May 12, last year.
Others paraded are: Mohammed Rabiu Adam (aka Dan Hajiya); Abubakar Abdulrahman Habibu; Shittu Salihu; Abubakar Umar and Ahmed Samaila.
The suspects are yet to be charged to court. The search for the German may have delayed the arraignment of the suspects in court.