Location: Okota/Isolo, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Work Model: Hybrid (4 days on-site and 1 day remote per week)
Working Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Job Summary
- Our client is seeking a detail-oriented, organised, and reliable Account Officer to oversee daily accounting activities, inventory management, stock reconciliation, and financial record-keeping.
- The ideal candidate will ensure accurate tracking of stock movement, proper documentation of financial transactions, timely reporting, and effective coordination between the accounts, sales, procurement, and warehouse functions.
- Candidates residing in Okota/isolo and its surrounding areas are strongly preferred to ensure easy commuting and consistent on-site attendance.
Key Responsibilities
Accounting and Financial Record-Keeping:
- Record and maintain accurate daily financial transactions, including sales, purchases, expenses, and payments.
- Prepare and maintain invoices, receipts, and other relevant financial documents.
- Monitor accounts payable and receivable and follow up on outstanding payments.
- Reconcile cash transactions, bank statements, and other financial records.
- Assist with the preparation of financial reports, expense summaries, and periodic account statements.
- Maintain organised and up-to-date accounting records for management review.
- Support budgeting, expense tracking, and basic financial analysis.
- Ensure proper documentation and authorization of financial transactions.
- Prepare basic periodic financial, sales, and inventory reports.
Inventory and Stock Management:
- Monitor and maintain accurate records of stock received, issued, sold, returned, and transferred.
- Conduct regular physical stock counts and reconcile actual stock with inventory records.
- Track stock levels and identify low-stock items, overstocking, discrepancies, and potential losses.
- Monitor product expiry dates and ensure appropriate tracking of near-expiry and expired products.
- Maintain proper documentation for stock receipts, dispatches, returns, and adjustments.
- Coordinate with procurement, sales, and warehouse personnel to support timely replenishment.
- Investigate and report stock discrepancies, damages, shortages, and inventory losses.
- Ensure inventory records are updated promptly following every stock movement.
Reporting and Internal Controls:
- Prepare regular stock reports, sales summaries, reconciliation reports, and expense statements.
- Maintain accurate records that support internal audits and management decisions.
- Identify irregularities in financial transactions or inventory movement and escalate them appropriately.
- Ensure compliance with established accounting procedures, inventory policies, and approval processes.
- Recommend improvements to stock control, documentation, and accounting processes.
Administrative and Cross-Functional Support:
- Work closely with the sales, procurement, warehouse, and management teams.
- Ensure that financial and inventory documentation is properly filed and easily retrievable.
- Support periodic stock audits and financial reviews.
- Perform other relevant accounting, inventory, and administrative duties as assigned.
Qualifications and Requirements
- HND or BSc in Accounting, Finance, Banking and Finance, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- 2–3 years of relevant experience in accounting, inventory management, stock control, or a combined accounts and inventory role.
- Experience in a pharmaceutical, healthcare, FMCG, retail, or distribution business will be an advantage.
- Good knowledge of basic accounting principles, bookkeeping, and inventory control procedures.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.
- Experience using accounting or inventory management software is an added advantage.
- Strong numerical, analytical, organisational, and record-keeping skills.
- High level of accuracy, integrity, confidentiality, and attention to detail.
- Ability to identify discrepancies, meet deadlines, and work with minimal supervision.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
Work Arrangement:
- Location: Okota/Isolo, Lagos, and its environs.
- Schedule: Four days on-site and one day remote weekly.
- Working hours: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Monday to Friday.
- Applicants must be able to commute conveniently to the Okota office on on-site workdays.
Application Closing Date
10th November, 2026.
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to hr@bridgehedge.org using the Job Title as the subject of the email.
Note: Some days, candidates would be asked to visit other branches of the company in other locations.
