AP Accountant at Jumia Nigeria

Jumia is Africa's leading internet group, with already over 3,000 employees in more than 20 African countries and huge successes such as Jumia, Jumia Travel, Jumia Food, Jumia Deals, Jumia House, Jumia Jobs and Jumia Services. It is led by top talented leaders offering a great mix of local and international talents and is backed by MTN, Millicom, Rocket Internet, Axa, Orange, Goldman Sachs & CdC.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: AP Accountant

Location: Nigeria

Key Responsibilities
Payment Processing and Accounting:

• Manage advance consignment payment processing to ensure timely and
  accurate payouts.
• Handle Jforce payout processing and accounting, ensuring all transactions are
  correctly recorded.
• Manage Marketplace payout processing to ensure vendor get payments in a
  timely manner.
• Handle repayment of failed/unprocessed payouts for Jforce and Marketplace
  vendors and manual booking in NAV.
• Manage 3PL invoice payment processing
• Manage non-trade invoice payment processing

Reconciliation and Analysis:

• Conduct advance consignment sales and inventory analysis to identify trends and discrepancies.
• Monitor marketplace vendors debit balances and take appropriate actions to reduce the debit balance
• Flag suspicious vendors with payouts for further investigation.
• Analyze failed payments for local vendors, determine reasons for failure, and reprocess payouts with updated bank details.
• Conduct account reconciliation for local vendors, resolving payment discrepancies and vendor issues.
• Prepare local vendors offset analysis reports to clear negative balances with withheld payouts.
• Analyze overdue payouts for local vendors, determine reasons for delays, and reprocess overdue payments.

Data Management and Reconciliation:

• Perform manual reconciliation and upload missing transactions on the Seller Cent
• Map suspicious vendors with substores having a credit balance to enable offset.
• Manage RTV uploads, claims verifications, and approvals.

Vendor and Penalty Management:

• Upload penalties, deductions, and other applicable transactions in RING
• Manage value-added services (VAS), including uploads, refunds, and approvals.
• Confirm vendor payments and upload on Ring.
• Reconcile vendor promises between OMS and Salesforce.
• Handle VXP penalty management, including uploads, claims verification, and reversals.
• Manage wrongly forfeited claims, including verification, uploads, and rejections.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.