The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture seeks suitable Nigeria nationals for the positions below at the Institute’s Headquarters in Ibadan.
Position: General Accounting and Treasury Manager
Contract: 3-years renewable contract
Location: Ibadan
Closing Date: 10 November 2026
DUTIES
A. General accounting, financial control and month-end close
· Provide overall oversight of IITA's general accounting operations, ensuring accurate, complete and timely recording of financial transactions.
· Lead and coordinate monthly, quarterly and year-end financial closing processes, including review of journals, accruals, provisions and balance sheet reconciliations.
· Ensure timely and accurate accounting for payables, receivables, payroll, advances, assets, liabilities, income and expenditure.
· Establish and maintain robust balance sheet reconciliation processes, with clear ownership and timely resolution of reconciling items.
· Ensure appropriate accounting treatment and allocation of transactions across projects, grants, cost centers, activities and funding sources.
· Strengthen accounting policies, procedures and controls and ensure consistent application across IITA locations.
· Identify accounting and financial control weaknesses and drive corrective actions to resolution.
B. Treasury, liquidity and cash management
· Lead IITA's day-to-day treasury and cash management activities, ensuring adequate liquidity to meet operational, statutory, donor and program obligations.
· Prepare and oversee weekly cash position and cash-flow forecasts, providing management with clear visibility of available, committed and restricted cash.
· Monitor cash requirements across IITA hubs, stations and country offices and coordinate funding transfers in line with approved budgets, donor conditions and cash-flow requirements.
· Develop and maintain short-, medium- and long-term cash-flow forecasts and highlight emerging liquidity risks to the CFRO.
· Ensure effective management of bank accounts, including account opening and closure, bank mandates, signatories, online banking access and banking controls.
· Review bank charges, interest income and other banking transactions and ensure discrepancies are promptly investigated and resolved.
· Ensure timely and accurate bank reconciliations and resolution of unidentified or long-outstanding items.
· Support the CFRO in managing IITA's investment portfolio, ensuring preservation of capital, appropriate liquidity and prudent optimization of investment returns.
· Monitor and manage foreign exchange exposures in accordance with approved policies.
· Oversee the integrity of IITA's payment processes, including review of payment proposals and electronic banking transactions before submission for authorization.
· Ensure payments are properly supported, approved, accurately coded and processed within agreed timelines.
· Monitor supplier, partner, payroll, statutory, tax, utility and other payment obligations to ensure timely settlement.
· Ensure appropriate segregation of duties and controls across payment initiation, review, approval and execution.
· Strengthen controls over petty cash, imprest, corporate cards and other cash-equivalent arrangements.
· Conduct or coordinate periodic independent cash counts and ensure all exceptions are investigated and resolved.
· Work with banks and relevant internal teams to resolve banking and payment issues promptly.
C. Financial reporting and analysis
· Ensure the timely preparation of accurate monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports and financial statements.
· Review balance sheet schedules and key accounting reports to ensure completeness, accuracy and appropriate supporting documentation.
· Provide financial analysis and interpretation to identify emerging financial risks, trends and opportunities.
· Support the CFRO with cash, treasury, investment and financial management reports for Senior Management and the Board/Finance and Audit & Risk Committee.
· Ensure…