Financial Accountant at FairMoney

FairMoney is building the leading mobile bank for emerging markets. For most of the positions, it’s possible to join FairMoney remotely or in one of our offices: in Paris, Bangalore, Lagos, Riga. FairMoney is unique thanks to its international exposure (with offices on 3 continents) and its impact-driven mission: we bring financial inclusion to underbanked people in emerging markets!

We give 10,000 loans daily (one every 8 seconds!) in Nigeria and India, and have banking operations in Nigeria, with over 1 million users. We’re backed by international investors and raised close to €50m to support our development. We are a team of close to 200 people between Paris, Lagos, Bangalore, Riga.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Financial Accountant

Location: Lagos
Contract Type: Permanent Contract

Job Description

You will be working as our Financial Accountant in our Finance Division which is now composed of 7 people worldwide.
You will be based in Lagos, Nigeria (currently our largest market) and working as well with our finance team based in Paris and India.
The Finance department at FairMoney is a key component in this mission to provide banking services to all consumers across emerging markets.
Finance drives the reporting, the strategic analysis and the financial operations to make FairMoney’s mission possible.

Responsibilities
We are waiting for you to work on:

Carrying out monthly postings, accurate calculation of monthly accruals/prepayments, including journal preparation;
Providing the necessary support for the statutory annual audit, regulatory audit and tax audits by making relevant schedules and source documents available on time;
Ensuring that the PAYE, Pension, WHT and VAT are appropriately deducted and remitted;
Maintaining the fixed asset register and ensures that controls put in place to safeguard the company’s asset are complied with
Preparation and review of the monthly Statement of Profit or Loss and Other Comprehensive Income (SOCI), the Statement of Financial Position(SOFP) and Statement of Cash Flow;
Preparing and maintaining intercompany reconciliation including calculation of monthly intercompany transfer/transactions and any resulting FX gain/lo
Facilitating the year end process by providing assistance with the preparation of the final account and the consolidated account;

Preferred Experience

Bachelor's in Accounting or numerate discipline degree;
A qualified accountant (ACCA / ICAN) is highly essential;
Have a minimum of five (5) years accounting experience in audit firms or firms in the financial service industry;
Have advanced Microsoft Excel Skills;
Have proven experience within an accounting department;
Be an effective team player with a positive attitude;
A track record of constantly looking for ways to do things better.
Experience in Fintech (with transaction volumes) would be an advantage;
Good analytical skills, high level of accuracy and attention to detail;