Lead, General Ledger & Revenue Reporting at Airtel Nigeria

Airtel Nigeria (Airtel Networks Limited) is a leading telecommunications services provider in Nigeria headquartered in Lagos, the commercial nerve-centre of Nigeria. The telco ranks amongst the top four mobile service providers in terms of subscribers with a customer base of more than 39.8 million. The company's product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce and enterprise services.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Lead, General Ledger & Revenue Reporting

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time
Career level: Mid-Senior level

Job Purpose

• Provide management with information relevant to aid decision making aimed at Operational expenses efficiency.

Key Accountabilities
Intercompany Accounts Reconciliation:

• Liaise with all other Airtel Opcos for transactions closure.
• Ensure an up-to-date reconciliation of all intercompany balance.
• Ensure 100% signed-off of intercompany balances is obtained monthly.

Month-End Closure Process

• Timely and accurate submission of all HQ required reports.
• Ensure that HQ accounting guidelines and process are being complied with no deviation.
• Perform monthly revaluation of all foreign denominated balance and reconciled the forex revaluation to MAPA
• Liaise with all other units within the Directorates for any variances noted during trial balance review for month end closure.
• Ensure monthly closure of financials through upload of trial balance into Hyperion Financial Management application.
• Co-ordinate submission of all AGs Alignment and DTR schedules within Group timeline

Preparation of Financial Statements:

• Ensure annual financial statements are prepared in line with current International Accounting Standards.
• Co-ordinate all stakeholder within the business for timeline completion of annual financial statements

Internal & External Audit Exercise:

• Facilitate smooth running of all audit exercise within Financial Reporting directorate.

Adhoc Activities:

• Act as a link between Nigeria Financial Reporting team and Group Financial Reporting team
• Ensure all prompt response to all HQ queries.
• Coordinate the activities of Airtel Money and TowerCo

Required Skills, Experience and Educational Qualifications
Educational Level:

• Interested candidates must have:
  • Graduate Degree in Accounting or related discipline
  • Professional Qualification in Accounting like ACCA, ICAN

Working Experience:

• Interested candidates must have:
  • 7-8 years preferably in FMCG, Communication & Telecom

Skills critical to the role:

• Good Excel Skills
• Adept user of Accounting Packages; Oracle ERP and Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.