Pagatech Job

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

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.
• 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
• Certification or relevant work experience with Information Systems Auditing

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.
• 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.
• 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

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.
• Multi task and manage competing priorities
• Self-driven and hardworking
• Ability to communicate complex issues logically with both finance and non-finance stakeholders
• 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

How to Apply

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