Lead, General Ledger & Revenue Reporting at Airtel

About the Role:

• The purpose of the role is to provide management with information relevant to aid decision making aimed at operational expenses efficiency.

Airtel Africa is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and remain fully committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Responsibilities

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 closure of 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

• Up to date knowledge of changes to international accounting standards
• 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.

Ad-hoc Activities

• Act as a link between Nigeria Financial Reporting team and Group FR team
• Ensure all prompt response to all HQ queries
• Coordinate the activities of Airtel Money, Nxtra Limited FZE, Nxtra Limited, Telesonic and TowerCo 

Qualifications

Educational Qualifications

• Graduate degree in Accounting or  related discipline
• Chartered Accountant: ACCA/ACA 

Relevant Experience & Functional / Technical Skills

• Minimum of 8 years of experience  in FMCG, or Telecom
• Proficient  in the use of Microsoft Office tools
• Adept user of Accounting packages; Oracle ERP and Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)
• Good Communication(Oral & Written) and Inter-personal skills
• Detail Oriented and Analytical
• In-depth knowledge of the telecoms industry and strong Analytical skills
• Good Microsoft Office skills