🇳🇬 Job Vacancies @ International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) – 5 Positions

Job Title: Accountant I

Job ID: IITA/P&C/NRS2025-009
Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Job type: Contract
Duration: 3-year renewable contract

Duties

• Prepare and review project financial reports.
• Review partners’ financial report and prepare financial justification.
• Attend to queries raised by Budget Officers regarding projects and fund status.
• Develop, maintain, and analyze budgets.
• Raise journals for necessary adjustments on various accounts and load them into Oracle.
• Update, review, and reconcile bills receivables from donors with the total grants income of projects.
• Support the institute’s annual audit with relevant schedules and respond to audit queries.
• Promptly promote the month-end budget monitoring report.
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the Supervisor.

Requirements
Qualifications:

• BSc / HND in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or any other related field with a minimum of four (4) years’ experience in a well-structured environment.
• Professional certifications in ICAN/ACA is desirable.

Competencies
The ideal candidate must:

• The ideal candidate must:
• Have excellent communication skills (writing, reading, oral).
• Have a strong analytical mind.
• Be very good with computer applications, especially Oracle.
• Be a good team player, and honest.
• Have a very pleasant personality.

Benefits
We offer highly competitive salary with equally attractive benefits and excellent working conditions in a pleasant campus environment.

Application Closing Date
22nd April, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Accountant II

Job ID: IITA/P&C/NRS2025-009
Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Job type: Contract
Duration: 3-year renewable contract

Duties

• Handle donors with sensitive and special requirements.
• Prepare error-free project financial statements for donors.
• Coordinate assigned project external audits throughout the year.
• Ensure timely budget uploads into the Oracle system.
• Promptly prepare and submit invoices to donors.
• Support the institution’s cash and receivable management.
• Assist with the institute’s annual audit by providing relevant schedules and responding to audit queries.
• Prepare month-end budget monitoring reports.
• Ensure timely justification of partners’ financial reports.
• Support the Project Finance Manager with relevant analysis for decision-making.
• Address queries raised by donor representatives regarding submitted financial reports.
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the Supervisor.

Requirements
Qualifications:

• BSc / HND in Accounting, Finance, or any other related field with a minimum of five (5) years’ experience in a well-structured environment.
• Professional certifications in ICAN/ACA is required.

Competencies
The ideal candidate must:

• Have knowledge of Oracle EBS.
• Be able to use Microsoft Office Suite.
• Be a goal setter.
• Be a good team player, and honest.
• Have a good attention to details.

Benefits
We offer highly competitive salary with equally attractive benefits and excellent working conditions in a pleasant campus environment.

Application Closing Date
22nd April, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Project Accountant

Job ID: IITA/P&C/NRS2025-009
Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Job type: Contract
Duration: 3-year renewable contract

Duties

• Ensure the preparation of prompt, timely, and accurate financial statements for donors.
• Review project budgets periodically and advise budget holders/PMs on potential project overruns.
• Ensure the prompt preparation and submission of invoices to donors.
• Coordinate assigned project audits throughout the year.
• Ensure the prompt and accurate computation of annual budgets.
• Ensure the prompt resolution of issues raised by Budget Officers/PMs.
• Contribute meaningfully to IITA's overall cash flow management.
• Advice PMs on budget burn rates to avoid overruns and ineligible expenses.
• Support the institute’s annual audit with relevant schedules and respond to audit queries.
• Ensure timely justification of partners' financial reports.
• Accurately verify all partners’ expenses based on supporting documents submitted with financial reports on assigned projects.
• Monitor budgets and ensure compliance.
• Ensure project expenditures do not exceed the life budget.
• Avoid ineligible overruns on each budget line.
• Eliminate project overruns through budget monitoring and variance analysis/burn rate tracking.
• Identify projects with overrun potential early through monthly budget monitoring reports.
• Prepare accurate and timely overhead and CSP charges at month-end for all active projects.
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the Supervisor.

Requirements
Qualifications:

• BSc / HND in Accounting, Finance, or other relevant fields of study with a minimum of eight (8) years’ experience performing similar role in a well-structured environment.
• Professional certifications in ACA, ACCA is required; Masters’ degree is an added advantage.

Competencies
The ideal candidate must:

• Have knowledge of Oracle EBS application.
• Have a strong command of Microsoft Office suite.
• Have strong attention to details.
• Have experience in Project Finance Management.

Benefits
We offer highly competitive salary with equally attractive benefits and excellent working conditions in a pleasant campus environment.

Application Closing Date
22nd April, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Procurement Assistant

Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Job type: Contract
Duration: 6 months renewable

Duties

• Maintain accurate and precise records, ensure activity tracking, and demonstrate methodology.
• Work cross-functionally with IITA colleagues to ensure requirements for all areas are met effectively and on time.
• Assist in developing and maintaining documented standards for procurement governance and processes, resulting in value for money and outcomes and minimizing procurement risk.
• Ensure on-time delivery, challenge non-compliance in areas of responsibility, monitor and update purchase order progress reports
• Monitor and track daily/weekly supplier deliveries by liaising with the Shipping Office, IITA Limited staff, and the Receiving section of the Stores.
• Develop and maintain a reporting system that measures the contribution of the procurement processes.
• Promote excellent customer service, identify, review, and implement strategies to improve service, quality, and efficiency.
• Maintain strong team relationships among colleagues and community groups, both formal and informal, across all levels.
• Assist in reviewing tender documents for compliance with stipulated standards.
• Manage contracts assigned to vendors/contractors to ensure compliance with specifications, service, quality, and delivery standards.
• Work in line with SOP 16 and CGIAR No 6 and mapping out tracking strategy or methods by hierarchy or position, value, criticality, and importance.
• Facilitate expenditure reviews to identify opportunities to add value through improved procurement techniques.
• Ensure the security of the department property and assets and maintain a commitment to the care of all property and assets.
• Ensure active involvement in the procurement of cloud storage system.
• Attend to vendors/visitors, moving procurement payment memos to FD for payment process, issuing POs to vendors, and providing customer service to all categories of internal and external customers.
• Assist the Support office in organizing work schedules, meetings, seminars, and workshop
• Assist in raising of Requisition (internal & RFP).
• Perform any other job-related duties as may be assigned by the Supervisor.

Requirements

• National Diploma in Procurement and Supply Chain Management, Business Administration or related field with a minimum of two (2) years’ experience performing similar role in a well-structured environment.
• Experience in agricultural-related domain is an added advantage.

Competencies:
The ideal candidate must:

• Have strong negotiation and time management skills, creative thinking and risk management skills.
• Have understanding of the supply market intelligence, familiarity with technology and system for procurement.
• Have the ability to collaborate effectively and perform metric analysis.

Benefits
We offer highly competitive salaries with equally attractive benefits and excellent working conditions in a pleasant campus environment.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Finance Manager

Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Job type: Contract
Duration: 3 years renewable

Duties

• Prepare monthly reports across all Regional Hub Program Cost Centers for effective and efficient internal financial management.
• Advise and communicate with the Regional Hub project team on project financial status, availability of funds for project activities, and other financial and compliance-related matters.
• Liaise continuously with the Headquarters Finance team to ensure the highest level of compliance with IITA policies, regulations, and procedures.
• Ensure strict compliance with specific project rules, regulations & contract terms.
• Maintain financial reporting and tracking systems providing data measurements on the financial performance of project activities and expenditures against overall objectives
• Develop and prepare for donors and IITA Finance, timely monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting and accurate financial projections throughout the fiscal year. Develop, analyze and monitor program budgets’ spending.
• Handle all consolidated expenditure justification reports and retrieve all backup support documents for IITA internal i.e. Project Development & Administration Unit and Donor reporting.
• Prepare and review relevant partnership agreements, ensuring all mapping/categorization of respective expenses are in line with Donor Report requirements and project workplans
• Support annual budget development processes and provide financial assistance to teams developing new funding proposals.
• Continuously review all financial transactions and resolve issues arising.
• Monitor and report on actual spending, including compliance with instituted controls and donor requirements/compliance.
• Prepare monthly Bank Reconciliation handing all imprest reports, including attendant controls.
• Verify all partners’ expenses based on the support documents submitted with the financial reports on various Regional Soil Health Hub partners and IITA staff.
• Review all staff cost-related payments charged to the Regional Soil Health Hub Cost Centers for propriety and correctness.
• Monitor risk management factors to ensure financial sustainability of the Regional Hub.
• Process all Regional Hub staff travel advances, claims and reimbursements.
• Handle Fixed Asset register, including tagging and reconciliation.
• Perform any other finance-related tasks as may be assigned by the Supervisor.

Requirements
Qualifications:

• Master`s Degree in Finance, Accounting or any related field with a minimum of six (6) years’ experience performing similar role in a well-structured environment, possession of ACA/ACCA would be an added advantage.
• Experience in WorldBank operations would be a plus.

Competencies:
The ideal candidate must:

• Have strong analytical mind, with hands-on experience in any major ERP/ computer application e.g. Oracle application.
• Agile self-learner who is not afraid to ask questions to clarify tasks and reduce/avoid predictable inefficiencies at execution stage.
• Have excellent MS Office competence.
• Strong service and support mindset, and an excellent eye for details in numbers and narrative.
• Have a very pleasant personality, good team player, honest and good command of both written and oral English.
• Ability to work efficiently and effectively under pressure of tight deadlines.
• A proactive problem solver with the ability to adapt to changing project needs and priorities.
• Some understanding of written French would be an advantage.

Benefits
We offer highly competitive salaries with equally attractive benefits and excellent working conditions in a pleasant campus environment.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online