Lead, General Ledger & Revenue Reporting at Airtel

Job Purpose

• Provide management with information relevant to aid decision making aimed at Operational expenses efficiency.

Key Accountabilities
Intercompany Accounts Reconciliation:

• Liaise with all other Airtel Opcos for transactions closure.
• Ensure an up-to-date reconciliation of all intercompany balance.
• Ensure 100% signed-off of intercompany balances is obtained monthly.

Month-End Closure Process

• Timely and accurate submission of all HQ required reports.
• Ensure that HQ accounting guidelines and process are being complied with no deviation.
• Perform monthly revaluation of all foreign denominated balance and reconciled the forex revaluation to MAPA
• Liaise with all other units within the Directorates for any variances noted during trial balance review for month end closure.
• Ensure monthly closure of financials through upload of trial balance into Hyperion Financial Management application.
• Co-ordinate submission of all AGs Alignment and DTR schedules within Group timeline

Preparation of Financial Statements:

• Ensure annual financial statements are prepared in line with current International Accounting Standards.
• Co-ordinate all stakeholder within the business for timeline completion of annual financial statements

Internal & External Audit Exercise:

• Facilitate smooth running of all audit exercise within Financial Reporting directorate.

Adhoc Activities:

• Act as a link between Nigeria Financial Reporting team and Group Financial Reporting team
• Ensure all prompt response to all HQ queries.
• Coordinate the activities of Airtel Money and TowerCo

Required Skills, Experience and Educational Qualifications
Educational Level:

• Interested candidates must have:
  • Graduate Degree in Accounting or related discipline
  • Professional Qualification in Accounting like ACCA, ICAN

Working Experience:

• Interested candidates must have:
  • 7-8 years preferably in FMCG, Communication & Telecom

Skills critical to the role:

• Good Excel Skills
• Adept user of Accounting Packages; Oracle ERP and Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)