Account Associate at Jumia Nigeria

Responsibilities

• This role is responsible for the delivery of the financial and business processes and systems in line with corporate standards; the post holder will undertake specific work within Finance and contribute to improving functional efficiency.

In particular, you will:

• Audit account payable checks, verifying accuracy of vendor names, amounts, addresses, authorizations, and other key payment information.
• Review bi-weekly check proposals to identify inappropriate transactions in conjunction with the disbursement audit process, primarily by verifying appropriate authorization of new vendors.
• Reconcile all vendor additions, deletions, and changes in Accounts Payable against the monthly vendor change report.
• Review bi-weekly duplicate A/P payment reports; investigate and resolve potential duplicate payments prior to release of payment.
• Prepare monthly reconciliations of store bank accounts.
• Post payroll journal entries and prepare account reconciliations.
• Assist with preparation of monthly consolidated financials and variance reports by collecting data; analyzing and investigating variances; summarizing information and trends.
• Responds to financial inquiries by gathering, analyzing, summarizing, and interpreting data
• Prepares special reports that will be requested by management from time to time.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Accounting or related field
• 5 years' work experience
• Advance proficiency in Microsoft Word processing and spreadsheet applications; ability to utilize database application
• Advanced level of Microsoft Excel (Pivot tables, Vlookups, and nestedifs formulas)
• Ability to interpret Financial Data from various systems and in various format.
  

We Offer

• A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
• A unique opportunity of having strong impact in building the African ecommerce sector
• The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders