Paystack is a technology company solving payments problems for ambitious businesses. Paystack’s mission is to help merchants in Africa get paid by anyone, anywhere in the world. Over 9,000 of some of the best businesses in Nigeria use Paystack’s modern payments gateway, including MTN, Taxify, Domino’s Pizza, Smile Communications, Opera, God is Good Motors, Axa Mansard Insurance, and many others.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Finance Analyst
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Type: Full-time
About the Finance Analyst Role
- As the Finance Analyst at Paystack, you’ll be responsible for daily reconciliation of transactions processed on Paystack, managing merchant receivables, and validation of bank statements and balances.
- Other responsibilities include monthly accounting entries for P&L, balance sheet, and cash flows. You should be well versed in reading and understanding financial statements. You’ll also be responsible for implementing and maintaining a system of internal controls that will ensure that company assets are adequately safeguarded and that all financial reporting is prepared in alignment with all financial policies and compliance requirements.
- We’ve pioneered a new era of simple, powerful technology tools for businesses in Africa, and as we prepare for a period of accelerated growth, we’re looking to you as our second ever finance hire to help build a solid foundation upon which we can support some of the continent’s best-performing businesses.
- And you’ll do all this while working extremely closely with a tight-knit team of creative problem solvers who’ll value you, give you the opportunity to meet high expectations, and who’ll actively create a supportive, nurturing space within which to accelerate your career.
- This is a full-time role is based in Paystack’s headquarters in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria and you’ll report directly to the Finance Lead.
What You’ll Be Doing
As the Finance Analyst at Paystack, you will:
- Oversee cash management/reconciliation, financial reporting and balance sheet management.
- Ensure that policies and procedures(internal controls) are in place to provide reasonable assurance that the company assets are protected.
- Ensure that company financial records, under responsibility, are maintained in compliance with company policies.
- Review monthly/quarterly account reconciliations and other documents to ensure compliance.
- Establish accounting operational strategies by working with engineering team, identifying requirement gaps, automating processes, and implementing updates to internal tools.
- Coordinate work relating to both internal and external audits in the periodic review of the company financial records.
- Monitor and reconcile receivables accounts
- Monitor all outstanding balances and engage processors for collections
What it takes to succeed at this role
You:
- Have accounting experience within a multinational business
- Are highly proficient in MS Excel
- Have fantastic written and spoken communication skills
- Are able to work collaboratively across departmental functions
- Have strong knowledge of internal controls and financial reporting
- Have the appetite to jump headfirst into a fast-moving, fast-growing, mission-driven team that values creativity and output over effort
While this is NOT strictly required, it would be a plus if you:
- Have previous experience in the banking, payments, or credit card industry
- Have experience with Sage One or Xero Accounting
- Have experience with SQL
Interested and qualified candidates should:Click here to apply
Job Title: Product Operations Associate
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Type: Full-time
About the Product Operations Associate role
- As a Product Operations Associate at Paystack, you’ll help operate and monitor the critical backend processes that allows Paystack to deliver an industry-leading payments experience to merchants and customers.
- This is a full time role and is based in Paystack’s headquarters in Ikeja, Lagos. We are looking for young, smart, eager individuals who are interested in working at a high-growth and fast-paced environment.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Work with the Product Operations team to suggest ways to improve our internal fraud and risk management tools
- What it takes to succeed at this role
- Daily management of our fraud and risk operations on behalf of our merchants and acquirers across the continent
- Provide email and phone support to acquirers and merchants for any fraud and risk related issues
- Serve as first point of contact for other internal teams within the company around fraud and risk operations
- Proactively spot glitches or bugs observed with Paystack’s internal fraud and risk management tools and work with relevant product teams to ensure they are resolved as quickly as possible
- Analyze, regularly compile and share insights and trends gleaned during the fraud and risk management process
You Are:
- Compelling and persuasive when you find a solution you believe in. Able to work across teams without direct authority and win the day with numbers, letters, and passion
- Comfortable with ambiguity, a rapidly changing environment and work product feedback cycles that range from one day to several years depending on the day of the week
- Driven to innovate, rather than being limited by what is there or has already been done before
- You have a professional, helpful, and friendly attitude coupled and are able to listen, teach, and elicit information efficiently
- A strong problem so
- Keen to learn and get involved in the wider business processes
- Process-driven – You understand processes intuitively, are highly organised, and are constantly on the lookout to improve the way you work.
- Collaborative – You seek first to understand and then to be understood. You communicate your actions and intentions clearly verbally as well as in a written form.
- Proactive – You have a proactive attitude towards problems. You pay attention to details and think about the implications of what you are doing
- lver with an interest in resolving customer issues, enjoy working in a metrics-driven organisation, and have excellent written and verbal communication skills
- An individual with exceptional organisational skills with a high level of accuracy
- An individual with excellent data analysis skills and strong time management skills required to meet the internal and external deadlines/ cutoffs
While this is NOT strictly required, it would be a plus if you:
- Have previously worked at fast growing internet startups
- Have previously worked on Fintech or payment products
Interested and qualified candidates should:Click here to apply
Application Deadline 30th May, 2019.
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