Finance Manager at PalmPay Limited

PalmPay is a pan-African fintech company currently operating in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania and expanding to other markets in this year. We’re reinventing the payments experience by making it easy and reliable for everyone to transfer money, pay bills and shop online.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Finance Manager

Location: Lagos, Nigeria (On-site) 
Job type: Full-time 
Level: Mid-Senior level

Job Description

• We’re looking for an experienced Finance Manager who is passionate about our mission of driving financial inclusion in Africa.
• The ideal candidate will monitor the job market, the modern trends in the Finance and find the best practice for the implementation in the organization.

Key Roles And Responsibilities

• Ensure accurate and timely daily recordkeeping and accounting systems of all loan vouchers and assigned expense vouchers.
• Reconcile and update accounts postings appropriately promptly attend to
• Financial report and analysis to advice on management performance
• Reported reconciliation issues from cashier and Accountant team.
• Liaise with external parties on behalf of the entities managed
• Perform other account analysis and reconciliations as may be required and participate in the month-end close process.
• Finance team management, perform any other duty as may be assigned by Management
• Responsible for bank accounts transactions (receipts and payments) and provide zank daily report.
• Attended management meeting as delegated by head of department
• Present departmental report during management meeting where necessary
• Supervise other subordinate of financial transactions posting
• Give financial advice on financial matter as well due
• Tax management and Administration of Managed Entities
• Perform Monthly Banks reconciliation of Access bank account investigate and resolve discrepancies; ensure availability of bank reconciliation statement.
• Ensure all transactions are captured in the financial reporting of the entities management, Account Balance, Variance Report on end of month closing
• Respond on HQ daily, monthly, half yearly and yearly reports and audits. Provide required documents and evidences (such as daily cash report, copies of bank statement - softcopy and scan bank certified copy, scan bank certified half year bank statements, bank reconciliation tables, etc.)
• Liaising with the Tax authorities on Tax Audit and Tax Correspondence
• Monthly statutory remittances (WHT, VAT, etc.) and other business financial commitments.
• Prepare journal voucher for direct debit on the bank statement (debits other than regular expense with voucher e.g. bank charges) and direct credit on the bank statement (credit other than revenue.
• Advise the company on implications of existing and new government monetary
• Provide professional advice for other teams and connect with CBN.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree or above
• At least 4 years management experience in any of PWC/DTT/KPMG/EY
• Well-known Fintech finance experience
• ACCA.

As well as formal qualifications, a Finance Manager job description should detail the following qualities:

• An analytical mind
• Negotiation skills and the ability to develop strong working relationships
• Commercial and business awareness
• Good communication skills - both written and verbal
• A keen eye for detail and desire to probe further into data
• Ability to stick to time constraints.

Necessary Skills:

• Communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Problem solving skills
• Punctuality
• Critical thinking skills
• Teamwork and collaboration skills
• Adaptability skills
• Work ethic
• Project management skills.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.