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

About the Role

• The purpose of the role is to provide management with information relevant to aid decision-making aimed at operational expense efficiency.
• Airtel Africa is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and remains fully committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Responsibilities

• Intercompany Accounts Reconciliation:
• Liaise with all other Airtel Opcos for transaction closure
• Ensure an up-to-date reconciliation of all intercompany balances
• Ensure 100% signed-off on intercompany balances is obtained monthly

Month-End Closure Process:

• Timely and accurate submission of all HQ required reports.
• Ensure that HQ accounting guidelines and processes are being complied with, with no deviation.
• Perform monthly revaluation of all foreign denominated balance and reconcile 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 the closure of monthly closure of financials through the upload of the trial balance into the Hyperion Financial Management application
• Coordinate the submission of all AGs' Alignment and DTR schedules within the Group timeline

Preparation of Financial Statements:

• Up-to-date knowledge of changes to international accounting standards
• Ensure annual financial statements are prepared in line with current international accounting standards.
• Coordinate all stakeholders within the business for the timely completion of annual financial statements

Internal & External Audit Exercise:

• Facilitate the smooth running of all audit exercises within financial reporting directorate.

Ad-hoc Activities:

• Act as a link between the Nigeria Financial Reporting team and the Group FR team
• Ensure a prompt response to all HQ queries
• Coordinate the activities of Airtel Money, Nxtra Limited FZE, Nxtra Limited, Telesonic, and TowerCo 

 Requirements
Educational Qualifications:

• Graduate degree in Accounting or  related discipline
• Chartered Accountant: ACCA/ACA 

Relevant Experience & Functional / Technical Skills:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience  in FMCG or Telecom
• Proficient  in the use of Microsoft Office tools
• Adept user of Accounting packages; Oracle ERP and Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)
• Good Communication(Oral & Written) and Inter-personal skills
• Detail-Oriented and Analytical
• In-depth knowledge of the telecoms industry and strong Analytical skills
• Good Microsoft Office skills.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.