Finance Systems Accountant at Pagatech Limited

Pagatech was founded in early 2009 with a vision to enable a cashless society and bank the unbanked in Africa. Our first product offering, Paga, is a direct to consumer mobile payments service. Paga is an innovative, open, secure, and interoperable mobile payments platform that allows any person who has a mobile phone to transact electronically - thus turning the mobile phone into an electronic wallet.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Finance Systems Accountant

Location: Lagos

Job Summary

• The Finance Systems Accountant will provide support to department activities with specific responsibility for maintaining accurate records of accounting with a view of ensuring timely, consistent and effective reports necessary to assist decision making.
• The ideal candidate will work to ensure alignment between all finance reporting, identifying any dataset anomalies and address any underlying financial system reporting processes deficiencies.
• This role will utilize good team work, strong analytical skills, accounting knowledge, systems knowledge, time management and effective problem solving skills to ensure success.
• The systems accountant will act as an interface between the finance team and the technical team.

Primary Responsibility

• Review of financial requirements on new business product requests for the accounting design and required reports applicable to the operating systems and data feeding into corporate accounting systems.
• Will hold regular update meetings with the finance team and train finance staff on new/upgraded processes on the system accounting
• Manage internal controls and processes for system financial data audits and validation enquiries.
• Work closely with Product Innovation and Quality Assurance teams in drafting business cases relating to financial systems or data; testing and post implementation reviews
• Liaise with Operations Support team on systems bugs or anomalies reported by the finance team
• Work within the scope of the department’s policies, processes and procedures to analyze and ensure all financial transactions are accurately captured
• Working closely with the finance managers to ensure that both new and existing financial features /transactions/ reports on the PAGA system re properly utilized
• Continuously monitor and manage improvement of financial features and reports.  

Other Responsibilities:

• Keep abreast of regulatory updates and ensure compliance
• Other ad-hoc tasks as assigned by management

Knowledge and Skill Requirements:

• Demonstrate good combined knowledge of information technology, accounting and finance practices.
• Forensic attention to detail, proactive and be a problem solver
• Must possess intermediate to advanced excel skills
• Ability to work under pressure , meet agreed timelines and respond effectively to requests for financial information / reports for the finance department team and budget holders
• Multi task and manage competing priorities
• Self-driven and hardworking
• Ability to communicate complex issues logically with both finance and non-finance stakeholders

Qualification and Experience

• First degree in Accounting or Business concentration; or First Degree in another concentration with at least 3 years of financial system and general accounting experience.
• Certification or relevant work experience with Information Systems Auditing
• 3 - 6 years in either Auditing, Financial Information Technology, System Data Analyst, Quality Assurance, or similar role with a reputable and structured business environment.
• Must have completed the mandatory NYSC

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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