Accountant - MIS and Central Reporting

ECOM is a world-leading soft commodity services group specialising in coffee, cocoa, and cotton. We employ more than a thousand agronomists and field staff worldwide, running innovative on-the-ground operations and sustainability programmes to help our customers and farming communities worldwide. Our global presence, unparalleled experience, and strong, trusted relationships allow us to create a valuable and profitable environment for our suppliers, customers, shareholders, and employees.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Accountant - MIS & Central Reporting

Location: Lagos

Job Summary

• The Accountant owns the Management Information System (MIS) and central reporting for the group's West Africa entities (Nigeria at this stage).
• The role turns operational and accounting data into accurate, timely reports that management and the board use to run an agri-commodity export business.
• The successful candidate will consolidate daily, weekly and monthly data from each entity, keep a single reliable source of figures, and support budgeting, forecasting and month-end close.

Key responsibilities
MIS Management:

• Maintain and update the central MIS workbooks and dashboards (purchases, stock, sales, shipments, production and cash).
• Collect daily and weekly data from entity, procurement, warehouse and plant teams, and chase late or incomplete submissions.
• Build and maintain pivot tables, dashboards and KPI trackers for management.
• Standardize data templates, naming and coding across entities so reports reconcile.
• Document MIS processes, data sources and report definitions.

Central Reporting:

• Prepare the monthly reports, as required in the area of Purchases and Inventory.
• Prepare daily and weekly flash reports, such as commodity purchases (volume, price, cost per tonne), stock positions and shipments.
• Prepare schedules and analysis for various meetings and circulations basis CFO requests.

Accounting and Control Support:

• Support month-end close: journals, accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Reconcile MIS figures to the general ledger and resolve differences.
• Track supplier advances, farmer and aggregator pre-financing, and inventory valuation.
• Support external and internal audits with schedules and supporting documents.

Data Quality and Improvement:

• Run checks on data accuracy and completeness before reports are issued.
• Suggest and implement automation (Excel formulas, Power Query, Power BI) to cut manual work.
• Keep files version-controlled, backed up and access-controlled.

Qualifications and experience
Required:

• Bachelor's Degree (or HND) in Accounting, Finance, Economics or a related field; minimum Second Class Upper or equivalent.
• Fresh graduate with strong Excel skills, or 2–3 years in accounting, audit, MIS or financial reporting.

Preferred:

• Progress towards a professional qualification (ICAN, ACCA, CIMA, ICAG or CPA).
• Experience in agri-commodities, FMCG, manufacturing or export trading.
• Exposure to an ERP or accounting system (SAP, Sage, Oracle, QuickBooks or similar).