Finance Manager - Paga Operations at Pagatech Limited

Pagatech was founded in early 2009 with a vision to enable a cashless society and bank the unbanked in Africa. Our first product offering, Paga, is a direct to consumer mobile payments service. Paga is an innovative, open, secure, and interoperable mobile payments platform that allows any person who has a mobile phone to transact electronically - thus turning the mobile phone into an electronic wallet.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Finance Manager - Paga Operation

Location: Lagos
Sector: Financial Institution

Job Description

• As a finance manager responsible for Paga operations you will play a critical role within our organization. You will be primarily responsible for ensuring the smooth operations of Paga Finance Operations unit and proper accounting of all transactions as it relates to the Paga payments service.
• The company will be looking to you to take leadership on all matters relating to the Paga system and the finance function.
• This covers multiple areas including ensuring the smooth conversion of cash into electronic value, reconciliation of all Paga pool accounts on a daily basis, managing our key 3rd party partners accounts including providing reconciliation support, and supporting our customer service functions to resolve any issues relating to finance.
• The company will be looking to you to design and implement processes that ensure smooth operations, train and develop your team members.
• To be successful you must be someone who has a strong accounting and finance acumen, has the ability to lead teams, and able to define processes and ensure controls are abided. Additionally you must be someone who cares about others, reliable, trustworthy, takes initiative, calm under pressure, and have great communication skills - verbal, non-verbal, and written.

Primary Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing, and communicating all processes and controls relating to Paga operations for the finance function
• Coordinate seamless accounting processes with the IT/engineering team
• Ensuring the correct reconciliation of all accounts
• Maintaining an excellent working relationship with our partner banks
• Ensuring the smooth running of Paga operations within the finance department
• Leading a team to execute on the day to day functions
• Ensuring team members abide by agreed controls for all processes
• Ensuring the right “climate” within your team - this includes championing the consistent measurement of how it feels to work in your team and working with team members to address any issues.
• People development - You will be responsible for taking the lead in sourcing and providing team members with relevant training for their roles.

Key Competencies:

• Strong accounting acumen
• Attention to detail
• Initiative and curiosity
• Multi-task and manage competing priorities
• Empathy
• Judgement and decision-making ability
• Communication skills - verbal, non-verbal and written

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant accounting/finance experience with 3+ years of direct supervision or management of an accounting/finance team or department
• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent
• Working knowledge of IFRS standards
• Strong with Excel and data analysis
• Strong written and presentation skills a plus
• Experience working with Banks or companies with significant transaction volumes
• Experience setting up back-end accounting processes and systems for large volume of transactions
• Bachelor's degree with a first class or 3.5 (and above) GPA a strong plus
• Must have completed the mandatory NYSC.

Application Closing Date
31st October, 2015

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV’s and cover letter to: [email protected] Email subject should be "Finance Manager - Paga Operations Role at Paga"