Financial Control Analyst at Sabi

Sabi is Africa's leading provider of enabling infrastructure powering the distribution of goods and services. Our platform enables and empowers a wide ecosystem of users, allowing agents, merchants, exporters, aggregators, distributors, and manufacturers to expand their capabilities and grow their businesses using Sabi's technology rails. These rails provide access to physical goods supply, logistics, business tools, financial services and data insights. In a short span of two years, Sabi has grown to be the largest B2B marketplace on the African continent.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Financial Control Analyst

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Job Schedule: Full time

Job Purpose

• The Financial Control Analyst is responsible for strengthening financial controls, optimizing processes, and ensuring regulatory compliance with relevant statutory law and financial regulations.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive internal control framework to safeguard financial assets. 
• Ensure company compliance with relevant statutory law and financial regulations eg, SOX, AML.
• Conduct periodic internal control assessments and audits, identifying areas of improvement and implementing corrective actions.
• Conduct the preparation and distribution of timely, monthly consolidated financial statements and reports.
• Perform comprehensive analytical reviews of financial statements to gain insights into financial performance of the business and identify key trends and indicators.
• Be well versed in finance matters whilst handling inquiries, developing action plans to address them.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather relevant financial data for reporting purposes.
• Assess current financial processes to pinpoint areas for optimization and enhanced efficiency.

Special Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field of study.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in Internal control, process and compliance in financial service, FMCG or ecommerce.
• Excellent knowledge of local GAAP rules, international accounting standards (IFRS, IAS) and regulations is required.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and ERP systems.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage well through ambiguity and complexity.

Candidate Specification

• Motivated by the mission of Sabi
• Pragmatic with quantitative and analytical ability and attention to detail
• Driven, independent thinker and leader who can juggle multiple projects simultaneously with fast-changing priorities
• High level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency.
• A focus on execution. Willing and able to get hands dirty.
• Flexibility to roll up your sleeves and attack problems and projects as they arise, where you will need to set out a clear structure, method and outcomes yourself.

Benefits

• Rapid Career Growth
• Annual Training Budget
• Robust Health Coverage, including
  • Optical Cover, and
  • Dental Cover
• Wellness Programs, including
  • Free Gym Cover
  • Free Spa Cover
• Competitive Pension Plan
• Opportunity to work in other global office.
• Life Cover
• Performance Bonus
• Paid Vacation Days
• Fully-funded Team Bonding Activities.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.