Job Opening at Sahara Group

Job Description

Accountabilities

• Responsible to ensure that the general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll and fixed assets are reconciled monthly, and in compliance with generally accepted accounting principles and government auditing standards.
• Oversee accounting and invoicing Counterpart’s subsidiaries and affiliates.
• Provide technical accounting guidance to the finance team;
• Oversee client invoicing and collection, and payment of vendor invoices occurs on a timely basis;
• Responsible for the monthly corporate cash flow preparation and work with Controller on cash management matters.
• Review and approve the prepayments, accruals, and other month-end transactions for the corporate finance team.
• Ensures monthly reconciliation of all accounting sub-systems and conducts balance sheet analyses and reconciliations.
• Oversee the monthly corporate finance reconciliation of bank statements.
• Review the monthly investment schedule reconciliations.
• Assist the Controller in preparation of monthly internal financial statements and draft annual financial statements.
• Assist the Controller in month and year end closing – including indirect cost allocation and revenue recognition.
• Assists the Controller in preparation of information required for year-end closing, annual audit and statutory reporting.
• Other responsibilities as assigned

Knowledge/Skills

• Demonstrated ability to simultaneously see the big picture (system level) and understand the nuances of the details to make informed recommendations.
• Meticulous attention to detail, as well as outstanding critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Proven ability to prioritize and to initiate follow-through.
• Invaluable experience of private equity, asset management and corporate finance.
• Demonstrate ability to meet deadlines, determine priorities and organize work to meet objectives and identify and deal with problems.
• Outstanding attention to detail with an ability to reconcile complex accounts.
• Ability to maintain strong relationships with external parties and internal colleagues

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting with 8- 10 years of experience
• CFA ,ACCA or related certification will be required.
• Minimum of 4 years supervisory experience, preferably in a similar role

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Job Description

Accountabilities

• Help balance business requirements with technical feasibility
• Help balance business requirements with technical feasibility
• Recommends changes in business process in place of complex solutions where possible
• Synthesis of out-of-the-world tech ideas to solve current and future business problems.
• Documentation of business cases to evaluate new ideas and concepts i.e. “as is” processes and “to-be” process flows
• Documentation of data flow diagrams, flowcharts .i.e. communication of ideas to application developers
• Evaluation of solutions presented by app developers to ensure they meet requirements
• Creation of business solutions from analysis of simple to complex datasets.
• Championing activities that can funnel innovative ideas to the department
• Communicate effectively and persuasively in a business context
• Supports team goals and perform any other duties as may be assigned by the Business Innovation Manager

Knowledge/Skills

• Strong quantitative and analytic skills
• Excellent business writing and verbal communication skills
• Excellent numeracy skills
• Excellent project management skills
• Intermediate to advance modelling skills
• Ability to use Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio for effective presentation of ideas.

Minimum Qualification

• University degree (Preferably in Computing, Engineering or Management Sciences)
• 2 - 5 years of cognate (Post-NYSC) working experience in a similar role
• Experience soliciting, gathering and analysing user input and requirements. Experience with data querying and data mapping work
• Experience documenting user stories/requirements, and creating to-be process flow diagrams