Tax and Intercompany Accountant at British Council (Lagos)

The British Council is the UK’s worldwide organisation for cultural relations and instructional alternatives. We create pleasant data and understanding between the folks of the UK and different international locations. We do that by making a constructive contribution to the UK and the international locations we work with – altering lives by creating alternatives, constructing connections and engendering belief.

We work with over 100 international locations throughout the world in the fields of arts and tradition, English language, training and civil society. Each yr we attain over 20 million folks face-to-face and greater than 500 million folks on-line, by way of broadcasts and publications. Founded in 1934, we’re a UK charity ruled by Royal Charter and a UK public physique.

Job Title: Tax and Intercompany Accountant

Job ID: 47417
Locations: Abuja (FCT) and Lagos, Nigeria
Department: Finance
Contract Duration: Indefinite

The Role

• The position is accountable for the operational administration and supply of British Council Nigeria’s Tax and Intercompany actions of the department and subsidiaries throughout totally different places in the nation.
• Focusing on compliance in keeping with inside organisational necessities and exterior regulatory requirements, whereas performing as a trusted companion to the enterprise supply and operational help groups.

Main accountabilities however not restricted to the following
Tax:

• Recommend efficient tax methods that adjust to related legal guidelines and promote British Council’s monetary well-being.
• Responsible for the administration of all Nigeria direct and oblique tax issues, together with guaranteeing tax returns are precisely ready and filed on time, paid as at when due, and tax audits are managed successfully.
• In collaboration with the P2P, guarantee tax funds are made on time.

Intercompany Credit Control:

• Chase for the cost of lengthy overdue accounts by sending follow-up emails to the Accounts payable contacts in SSC, and the varied branches and subsidiaries
• Identify/assessment and resolves invoicing points.
• Escalate to the Senior Financial Controller or Financial Controller any overdue / non- responsive ICO receivables.

Intercompany Recharges:

• Generate the price centre / WBS balances for recharge for the interval and prepares draft of the invoices for approval by Senior Financial Controller or Financial Controller.
• Validate dispute by checking the information and supporting paperwork for accuracy.
• Identify/assessment and resolves invoicing points
• Book recharges by the intercompany portal and intercompany staff in the Shared Services Centre (SSC)

Intercompany Settlement/Cash Application:

• Coordinate with Treasury for any settlement necessities
• Prepare funds and collections referring to Intercompany
• Collaborate with the Financial Controller in the month-to-month money forecast course of
• Serves as the Nigeria middleman for all department and subsidiary related issues

Reporting and Reconciliation:

• Verify and assessment particulars of intercompany requests submitted for / towards Nigeria entities
• Determine acceptable Intercompany accounting particulars (e.g. GL accounts, Cost Centres, Transaction Type, Tax Code, Plant Code, and so forth.), when required
• Process intercompany account journal entries and submit recharge / billing requests on the Intercompany Portal (ICO Portal).
• Monitor pending Intercompany requests on the ICO portal and observe up related events who must motion such requests.

Others:

• Identify course of enchancment alternatives and implements in keeping with the coverage
• Support inside and exterior audits
• Ensures compliance with phrases of intercompany agreements reminiscent of Cost Contribution Assignments (CCA), Affiliation, Debenture and Loan agreements, License Agreements, Grants Agreements, Asset Transfer Agreement, Exams Administration Cooperation Agreement, and so forth.

Requirements of the position

• Higher Education
• Minimum of 4 years related expertise in tax and finance roles together with tax reporting, tax compliance, and tax accounting
• Knowledge of local legal guidelines and expertise managing company taxation, VAT & WHT administration and statutory reporting.
• Experience coping with tax authorities.
• Good understanding of monetary management processes and skilled accounting requirements (together with local necessities the place relevant) for industrial and/or charitable organisations.
• Experience in managing and reconciling intercompany transactions
• Strong influencing and negotiating expertise.

Desirable:

• Shared Services Operations.
• Experience of working in worldwide and multi-cultural organisations.
• Experience working with tax and accounting companies.
• Experience of an ERP system (SAP ideally)
• Professional qualification – CITN and ACA/ ACCA.

Annual Gross Salary
N18,437,079 Annually.

Application Dealine

 
twenty first November, 2025 (23:59 South Africa Time / 22:59 UK Time).

METHOD OF APPLICATION

 
Interested and qualified candidates should:

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