Unilever Nigeria Plc – Our brands are trusted everywhere and, by listening to the people who buy them, we’ve grown into one of the world’s most successful consumer goods companies.

On any given day, two billion people use Unilever products to look good, feel good and get more out of life. With more than 400 brands focused on health and wellbeing, no company touches so many people’s lives in so many different ways.

Our portfolio ranges from nutritionally balanced foods to indulgent ice creams, affordable soaps, luxurious shampoos and everyday household care products. We produce world-leading brands including Lipton, Knorr, Dove, Axe, Hellmann’s and Omo, alongside trusted local names such as Blue Band, Pureit and Suave.
Unilever Nigeria Plc is recruiting to fill  the below position:

Job Position: Tax, Insurance & Pension Account

Job Number: 130006Y4
Schedule: Full-time
Location: Nigeria-Lagos State-Lagos-Oregun – Head Office
Shift: Day Job
Job: Finance
Travel: No

Main Purpose
To be responsible for Company Tax matters (Company Income Tax, Value Added Tax, Withholding Tax), Insurance and Pension Administration.

Main Accountabilities

• Prepares Quarterly Tax computation (Company income Tax, Education Tax, Deferred Tax) and submits all due report
• Prepares and remits monthly VAT and Witholding Taxes to Federal and State Internal Revenue Services
• Attends to queries from Tax Officers and ensures smooth audits exercise
• Liaises with Tax consultant on all Tax matters
• Prepares and submits adhoc reports to Corporate Tax Department, Corporate Pensions Department
• Ensuring compliance with Tax policies and Local legislation
• Reviews quarterly reports and annual accounts from Pension Fund Managers
• Prepares reports for Pension Trustee meetings
• Responsible for co-ordination of renewal of insurance policies (yearly)
• Ensures all due premiums are paid and prepayments phased out monthly to various locations.
• Ensures all relevant journals are raised, approved and posted
• Is responsible for the accuracy of reports
• Is responsible for issuing the reports on time
• Takes responsibility of own development

Relevant Experience

• A minimum level of  Intermediate excel skills required
• Good interpersonal skills
• Inclination to learn and grow
• An accountng degree or related disciplines abd levels of professional Accounting qualifications
• Minimum of 2 – 3 years experience in a tax management role is required
• Ability to work in a team

Application Closing Date
April 12, 2013, 4:59:59 AM

Job Responsibilities
The appointee would be responsible for the safe and efficient operation of the assigned plants on a shift basis. The duties will include, but are not Limited to the following:

• Operate the process and service units within the prescribed limits to achieve production targets for quantity and quality, safely and efficiently
• Execute on a daily basis, routine and non routine operations for the assigned area taking due care to implement HSE considerations for the activity.
• Prepare equipment for maintenance in accordance with appropriate procedure
• Participate in shutdowns
• Respond to plant process changes and upsets so that loss of production is kept at a minimum
• Manage process and service unit’s startups and shutdowns competently without affecting units that are to remain online
• Undertake constant evaluation of plant operating conditions so abnormalities are promptly resolved.
• Keep abreast of changes to operating procedures and control system
• Ensure effective start of shift orientation and shift handover.

Requirements
The right candidate should:

• Possess a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Chemical, Process, Industrial, Mechanical or Electronics /Electrical Engineering, obtained at a minimum of Upper Credit
• Be able to demonstrate proficiency in information technology
• Possess good communications and problem solving skills
• Not be more than 28 years old
• Have completed the NYSC year.

Application Closing Date
26th March, 2013

Method of Application
Interested candidates should Forward their handwritten applications, photocopies of their credentials and detailed curriculum vitae with full details address (not P.O.Box) telephone numbers and email address, The reference number of the positions applied for indicated at the top Left-hand corner of the envelope to The Manager, Manpower Planning and Resourcing, through ANY of the following addresses:

1.) HEAD OFFICE
Nigeria LNG Limited,
Intels Camp,
KM 16 Port Harcourt
Aba Expressway
Port Harcourt
Rivers State

2.) PLANT SITE
Nigeria LNG Limited,
Plant Complex
Bonny Island
Rivers State

3.) PORT-HARCOURT SUPPLY BASE
Nigeria LNG Limited,
Amadi Creek, Off Eastern By Pass
Port Harcourt
Rivers State

4.) BCP STE
Nigeria LNG Limited,
2/3 G Cappa Estate
Off Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way
Ikeja, Lagos.

5.) ABUJA LIASON OFFICE
Nigeria LNG Limited
5th and 6th floor
Bank of Industry Building
Plot 256, Zone AO, off Herbert
Macaulay Way,
Central Business District, Abuja.

Note: Only shortlisted applications will be acknowledged. The curriculum vitae should in the order listed below:

• Surname
• First Name / Initials
• Date Of Birth
• Age
• State Of Origin
• Contact Address
• Telephone Number
• Email Address
• Institution(S) Attended With Dates
• Degree(S) Obta1ned With Dates
• Class Of Degree
• Previous Work Experience
• Referees

Job Description

Our client, a non-operating holding company of a leading financial services Group with commercial banking, investment banking capital market and insurance subsidiaries has recently concluded the re-organisation of its businesses in line with regulalory requirements.

As a result of this re-organisation, the Company is seeking to recruit self driven, experienced and motivated individuals to fill the below select positions within the Holding Company

Job Title: Financial & Regulatory Reporting Analyst 
Job Code: FRRA – FS003

Job Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Financial & Regulatory Reporting Manager, the successful candidate will support the Financial & Regulatory Reporting Manager in preparing consolidated reports for the Group. Specific responsibilities include:
• Assist with the timely preparation of quarterly, half-yearly end year-end reports for the Group in compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements
• Assist with coordinating the Group’s audit exercise by various regulatory bodies e.g. the CBN, NDIC, FIRS. etc
• Assist at with the rendition/filing of relevant reports to regulatory authorities
• Assist in conducting ongoing analysis to improve Group reporting procedures

Key Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in any discipline (preferably in finance or accounting)
• Professional accounting certifications (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CPA)
• A minimum of 4 years relevant experience in financial reporting and coordination of audit exercises and reviews
• Sound knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and IFRS
• Good knowledge of the financial services industry

Application Closing Date: 20th March, 2013

Siasia was fired in October 2011 after he failed to qualify Nigeria to the 2012 Africa cup of Nations in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.

He has since this dismissal not worked even though he has been linked with various coaching jobs, from India to Kenya.

“We have contacted Siasia for the vacant U-23 job but he is yet to get back to us,” a top NFF official stated.

“He was on holidays in the US but we hear he is back so we will be expecting his response because we want to start early so as to avoid the pain of 2011.”

Siasia led Nigeria to the final of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China, where they lost by the odd goal to a Lionel Messi-inspired Argentina.

Austin Eguavoen resigned his post as coach of the Nigeria U23s after he failed to qualify the team for the All Africa Games and the London 2012 Olympics.

To most Nigerians and other global citizens interested in Nigeria’s affairs, the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) which was established in 1977, is the government owned public broadcaster of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with a mandate to inform, educate and entertain. But very little is known about the corporate social responsibility roles that NTA plays for the country.

NTA has over the years extended her services to all corners of the world with the sole aim of marketing the investment potentials of Nigeria. In 2010, the NTA under the management of its immediate past  Director General Alhaji Usman Magawata entered into a bilateral agreement with Suncast Communications, a United States – based communication operator to commence the operation of five television channels in the United States of America. The five channels launched in America by the NTA in 2010 at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington D.C. are NTA News 24; NTA 2 Lagos, NTA Sports; NTA Entertainment and NTA Knowledge channels just as the report has it that these channels would be managed by Suncast a Communications.    

The tradition of playing the role of a media ambassador for the purpose of attracting foreign direct investments to Nigeria has remained consistently alive with the current management of the NTA headed by the acting Director General Alhaji Musa Mayaki who has taken corporate responsibility a nudge further following the well established precedents.

Specifically, one of the essential corporate social responsibility roles taken up by the NTA and competently implemented over time is the hosting of an international investment forum in the United Kingdom, whereby key stakeholders from the different federating units of Nigeria are allowed the platform to market the investments potentials of their parts of the country with the national goal of attracting genuine foreign direct investors into the country.  

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Harvard and MIT- trained economist recently published a book titled “Reforming The Unreformable” whereby she highlighted the need for agencies of government to key into the transformation and reform agenda of the federal government to create jobs and also to improve the investment climate.

But what the NTA has achieved by organizing the second business/investment forum and exhibition in London between February 21st to 23rd 2013 is to enlighten the investment community that Nigeria has indeed become friendly for them to move in their capital and invest in the nation’s economy.

The second gain of the business/investment forum is that the national broadcaster has made radical and far- reaching effort to attract a number of investors who in turn will create jobs for the Nigerian youth. 

Aptly titled “Exposing Nigeria’s Rich Investment Potentials To The World”, the forum which took place in central London at the Cavendish conference center, witnessed presentations by high profile state government officials, representatives of ministers of Information, Trade and Commerce and the Acting Director General of the NTA Alhaji Musa Mayaki among other distinguished Nigerians resident in the United Kingdom. At the Business Investment Forum And Exhibition, the Kwara, Zamfara and Niger State governments  reportedly made representations on the rich investment potential of their states.

Speaking on behalf of  the state governments,  their representatives used the platform to campaign for foreign direct investments to their states promising several incentives to the genuine foreign investors.

 Vice Chairman of the Business Council for Africa, Clive Carpenter to the entire project also paid glowing tributes to Nigeria during a paper presentation on “Nigeria Business Ventures: Challenges and Prospects” just as he challenged genuine investors to do business with Nigeria.

 NTA’s Acting Director, Musa Mayaki, who competently moderated the sessions asked prospective investors to take advantage of the current drive by the federal government to come over to Nigeria.

“Doing business in Nigeria is safe due to the enabling environment provided by the government, so invest your capital in the various sectors of the economy and you will be glad you did” just like the South African telecommunication giant, MTN is”, he said.                 

Nearly six-thousand women were surveyed from Ivory Coast, Mozambique, Nigeria and Tanzania. 

“We asked the women in our cashew processing plant, over and above their wage, what was the single most important factor to them in their employment, and 36% of those women identified that working gives them independence and choices,” explained Briony Mathieson, head of corporate sustainability communications for Olam International. She added that at a close second, 33% of the women, said the work also gave them status and confidence.

Mathieson explained that the cashew supply chain requires intensive labor for it to be done well. The outer skin of the cashew nut must be peeled without breaking the nut. She said the nut is worth more when it is peeled whole, and the women working in these plants are very skilled in doing this.

In addition to performing unskilled labor, Mathieson pointed out that the women who work in agricultural processing do have opportunities to advance to more skilled positions.

“They are very good managers and they then gain more status within their communities, and obviously we offer them maternity rights and other benefits over and above the wage that they have as they would in any developing country,” said Mathieson.

The survey also found that women are more responsive to the opportunities that training gives them in many cases, than men.

“So women on the shop floor are given the opportunity to progress if they show an interest in doing that. I should point out that many women who do this unskilled work for us are in fact using this as a supplementary income to the fact that they’re also running a family farm. So generally, we build our factories close to where the cashews are actually grown so we could create a local economy,” explained Mathieson.

She said another benefit of working at the cashew processing plants is that 19% of the women found they receive useful information to take back to their families.

1. Sound understanding of Ericsson OSS and ENIQ product portfolio
2. Must possess 5 years experience working on OSS projects
3. Must possess senior Ericsson project management certification
4. Possession of international PM certification is an advantage
5. Minimum of 10 years telecom industry experience
6. Experience with ENIQ Events, OSS Navigator and OSS-RC 12.3 is an advantage
7. Must have a good understanding of Ericssonâ s telecom management roadmap
8. Excellent customer relationship management skills is a must
9. Ability and willingness to go the extra mile
10. Focused and result-oriented
11. High energy, very professional and career driven

Posted Date: 11 Mar 2013 Reference: JS-61635HM Employment Business: Morson International (IT) Contact: London Telecoms

NIGERIA: Ongoing project to provide 500 job opportunities in Bayelsa

Category: Nigeria News

Published on Monday, 11 March 2013 13:10

Written by Agency Reporter

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Prof. Peter OnwualuThe Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC) says its cluster project on plantain flour, oil palm, fish drying will provide some 500 jobs for Bayelsa indigenes.

The Director-General of the council, Prof. Peter Onwualu, said in Abuja that all was set for the take-off of the project. He recalled that the council had completed a baseline study on raw materials available in each ward in the country in 2012.

According to him, the council was able to complete the baseline study on the potential and existing clusters in about 9,000 wards across the country.

“In Bayelsa, we are working on plantain flour, oil palm, fish drying; and contract for the machines needed to have been awarded since last year and are now being fabricated. We believe that this will create over 500 jobs, and the number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the state are up to 30,” he said, adding that results from research institutes would also be used by the SMEs.

Onwualu said that the council has commissioned a cluster project on cassava production in Umuahia, Abia, and a number of projects on oil palm cluster in Anambra.

“We were able to cover four locations in Anambra. We deployed small-scale machines for processing  palm fruit to palm oil and palm kernel; this is  part of the cluster formation we are doing to build capacity,” he said. He added that the council would organise a training programme on clusters for each state in the country.

“Our target is to have at least one training in each state in Nigeria depending on the available raw materials in that state. We were able to cover 28 states for the training; each of them focused on different raw materials,” he said.

The Director-General listed some of the focused raw materials to include carline, cassava, granite, tomatoes processing, and stone cutting. Onwualu said out that the council has trained more than 1,000 women on improved methods of processing tomatoes and fruits in Taraba.