Finance Business Partner at Moniepoint Incorporated

Moniepoint Incorporated is a global business payments and banking platform and recently became QED Investors’ first investment in Africa. We are the partner of choice for over 600,000 businesses of all sizes, powering the dreams of SMBs and providing them with equal access to the tools they need to grow and scale.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Finance Business Partner

Location: Lagos

About The Role

• We are seeking a dynamic and visionary leader to take on the role of Finance Business Partner for our Payments Business Unit (“BU”).
• The Finance Business Partner will play an important role in driving the development and implementation of scalable processes, systems, operational excellence, and best practices as they relate to Financial Reporting, Finance Operations, and Accounting within the BU.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement product financial control processes that ensure the integrity of product GL balances
• Collaborate with product teams to define accounting logic and flows for new products, ensuring compliance with all relevant accounting standards.
• Support the product teams in reviewing existing product accounting flows to identify potential gaps and non-compliance with accounting standards. Work with the product teams to fix any issues that may be identified during the review process.
• Ensure all product accounting configurations are properly documented and updated where necessary, including preparing technical accounting memos on the treatment of special transactions.
• Manage the BUs chart of accounts, ensuring that existing GLs are properly named and classified and new GLs are properly created in line with established processes.
• Collaborate with the settlement and reconciliation team to ensure timely uploading of bank statements and reconciliation of all settlement receivable/payable positions.
• Maintain relevant GL schedules that tie to GL balances and that can serve as supporting documentation during the external audit process.
• Support the monthly and year-end close processes, including posting relevant journal entries into product GLs
• Prepare relevant monthly and ad-hoc balance sheets, income statement analyses and commentaries
• Support the FP&A team with the budgeting and forecasting process.

Candidate Requirements

• You’re a proven finance professional with 3 - 5 years of experience
• Advanced finance, accounting, and operations experience
• Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth industry with a history of leveraging technology to scale with the business
• Demonstrated knowledge of financial reporting, key business financial metrics, providing metrics inputs to various reporting venues, and communicating key performance indicators to stakeholders in support of business objectives
• Proficient in obtaining, organizing, and analyzing data to challenge conventional wisdom, make fact-based decisions, drive root cause analysis, and evaluate outcomes
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math); MBA preferred
• Qualified accountant with a management accounting background (ACA, CIMA, ACCA, ICAN, etc).

What we can offer you

• Culture -We put our people first and prioritize the well-being of every team member. We’ve built a company where all opinions carry weight and where all voices are heard. We value and respect each other and always look out for one another. Above all, we are human.
• Learning - We have a learning and development-focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks.
• Compensation - You’ll receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance, annual bonus, plus other benefits.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online