Finance Intern at Arnergy Solar Limited

Arnergy is a distributed utility providing energy reliability to SMEs and economic clusters in emerging market with flexible acquisition options including energy Subscription (ES) based on monthly fixed fee, consumer financed Lease to Own (LO) with monthly instalment or a Outright Sales (OS) option. Arnergy is on track to deploy excess of 100 Megawatt installed PV capacity powering more than 35,000 businesses across impact sectors not limited to Healthcare, Education, Hospitality by 2023. If you are excited to be part of the solution to Africa's energy crisis starting with Nigeria, we are happy to have you on board.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Finance Intern

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Internship

Job Description
You'll focus on:

• Monitor & oversee the day-to-day invoicing operations.
• Manage the Company’s account receivables by following up on payment of invoices due by sending invoices reminders and contacting clients, where necessary to ensure timely payments and monitor overdue amounts.
• Maintain cheques logs and ensure cheques are lodged into the company’s account as at when due.
• Perform day to day financial transactions, including verifying, classifying, computing, posting, and recording accounts receivables’ data.
• Maintain an up-to-date & reconciled receivables’ ledger at all times with true payment position from customers.
• Timely confirmation of payments received for sales from customers and issuance of receipts on a daily basis.
• Record invoices and payments received into the Company’s accounting software and post into the appropriate general ledgers on a daily basis.
• Update the auto-shut down sheets on a daily basis & ensure customers’ systems are active upon receipt of payments for the month.
• Liaise with the software team and ensure all issues regarding systems shut down are resolved.
• Provide sales & customers’ information that may be required for reports etc.
• Verify discrepancies and resolve clients’ billing issues.
• Maintain an updated and reconciled customers’ account statements, which should be sent to customers from time to time.
• Management of all petty cash accounts & cash advances including retirements.
• Participate in annual audits by providing supporting documentation when needed.
• Monitor the company’s monthly collection efficiency & prepare A/R aging analysis and reports on a monthly basis.
• Handle simple pricing requests from customers, and staff.
• Any other tasks or duties may be assigned from time to time as the need arises.

Requirements & Skills
You'll be a good fit for this role if you have experience with:

• ACCA / ICAN / CFA Certification.
• 0 - 2 years of experience in Accounting sector.
• An understanding and experience of treasury accounting including FX, liquidity, cash flow and various financial instruments.
• Sound understanding of accounting principles.
• Strong skills for analyzing financial statements and ratios.

We’d also like to see:

• Flexibility and comfort working in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• An attribute of grit.
• Compliance oriented, good interpersonal skills.
• Excellent time management, task prioritizing and organizational ability.
• High level of attention to detail.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: recruitment@arnergy.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.