Finance Operations Manager - Jumia at Jumia Nigeria

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for managing comprehensive general accounting, management accounting and reporting
• Also, you will drive standardization, ensuring financial outputs and service delivery are not only maintained to a high standard but improved, to increase efficiency within the team and forge strong working relationships across the organisation.

In particular you will:

• Build, develop and maintain data models, reporting systems, data automation systems, dashboards and performance metrics that support key strategic business decisions
• Lead settlements and clearance of financial transactions
• Effectively partner with finance partners to design user-friendly reports to meet the needs of the business and enable greater business insight and more effective analysis and decision support
• Work with Ops vendors to ensure timely execution and accurate reporting
• Set up risk management policies, procedures and parameters; responsible for staff training and communication; audit on a regular basis to ensure compliance
• Develop relationships with management to gain a deep understanding of the business and identify opportunities to influence business decisions
• Lead the implementation of new finance related projects
• Oversee effective reconciliation of partner balance between Operations systems and Accounting systems
• Design new processes and controls for growing business activities.
• Develop and execute financial planning processes for expense areas

Required Skills & Qualifications

• B.Sc in Accounting, Finance, Economics or a related field
• 5+ years of leadership experience, managing finance, accounting and operational processes
• Proven ability to influence finance and non-finance teams through a mixed set of finance skills (commercial finance, accounting, FP&A, audit, operations)
• Must have strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills; with the ability to work with cross functional teams and senior management
• Experience of analyzing large volumes of data
• Expertise in SQL, PowerPivot & Excel
• Ability to communicate data-based decisions to individual contributors as well as leadership. You can articulate clearly and defend your decision-making processes.

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