Billing Junior Associate at mPharma Nigeria

At mPharma, we start and end our day thinking about how we can enable patients to afford their medications. We’re a small but growing team of 350+ members, headquartered in Accra, Ghana, backed by mission-driven investors. We’ve joined hands with third-party payers, drug manufacturers and healthcare providers to develop products and services that directly reduce the costs of prescription drugs for patients. In only a few years, we’ve managed to provide low-cost, high-quality medicines to hundreds of thousands of patients across seven African countries (Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Malawi & Rwanda).

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Billing Junior Associate

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent contract
Department: Country Finance

Position Description

• We are looking for an ambitious young professional to join our team as a Billing Junior Associate.
• The position supports mPharma’s team in managing billing and revenue recognition for 250+ facilities in Nigeria.
• The analyst will have an opportunity to interface with a wide variety of stakeholders in the healthcare space (manufacturers, insurers, distributors and providers) and provide data analysis that will drive critical business decision making.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensures the timely and accurate billing of Partner Facilities.
• Works with Key Accounts team and other internal stakeholders to resolve billing disputes and queries raised by Facilities.
• Daily update the Customer Invoice Tracker (CIT) maintained by the Finance Team.
• Regularly complete the Billing Error log and engage key Process owners in relation to billing error root causes and resolutions. 
• Filter, “prep” and review data points used in the preparation of bills to facilitate accurate billing.
• Support Billing Lead to Identify and define improvement opportunities in relation to the Billing process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, Economics, Statistics or related field.
• 3+ years of professional experience.

Our Ideal Candidate:

• An entrepreneurial spirit with a passion for mPharma’s mission to increase the accessibility and affordability of high-quality medicines.
• A strong work ethic and a proactive “can do” attitude that requires minimal supervision.
• Exhibit enthusiasm to work with an early-stage start-up, commitment to helping us grow, and passion about healthcare in Africa.
• Possess a dynamic and energetic personality.
• A strong work ethic and a “can-do” attitude that requires minimal supervision
• Fluent English with excellent writing, verbal, analytical, and organizational skills.
• Works effectively as a team member and promotes collaboration.
• Strong attention to detail and past experience validating data accuracy
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with accuracy
• Strong Excel Skills (must be able to create pivot tables and lookups effortlessly). This will be tested
• Collaborate effectively.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.