Job Vacancies at Paga Nigeria

Location: Yaba, Lagos
Grade Level: Accountant - Grade 6
Report to: Finance Manager, Accounting Operations
Sector: Consumer Finance

About The Role

• Paga is looking for a passionate, self-driven and experienced Accountant to join our team! As the Accountant, you will keep financial records, prepare reports, monitor revenue, and update financial information.
• You must be familiar with accounting procedures and should have experience with accounting software programs (like SAP and Oracle).
• The ideal candidate will be able to understand revenue models, handle accounts payable and receivable, expense reports, receipts, and other financial matters. Proven accounting experience is required.

Primary:

• Work diligently with relevant team members to report revenue weekly and monthly
• Reconcile revenue weekly and ensure it reports correctly to receivables
• Continuously work to understand revenue recognition and mitigate losses to ensure the highest levels of revenue recognition. Reconcile activity when there is portal downtime and charges applied.
• Promote quality assurance for all processes impacting revenue
• Monitor and ensure accurate capturing of all inventory and other direct costs associated to revenue
• Processing invoices and timely collection of payments
• Relate with partners; manage receivables from partners, agents and intercompany
• Spot system glitches and their effect to the financial report. Suggest ways to improve and resolve such
• Contribute towards the timely delivery of month end report
• Ensuring taxes are applied correctly on revenue
• Ensure compliance with all revenue models
• Comply with International Financial Reporting Standard for financial statements
• Provide input into department’s goal setting process
• Work closely with the senior accountant to ensure seamless month end closure
• Produce error-free ad-hoc reports and present their results to management

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of a 2:1in Accounting
• Minimum 5-years’ experience in accounting, audit, or finance related function
• Proficiency across Data and Financial Analysis
• Professional qualification or final stage in ACCA, CIMA or ICAN) is desirable
• Advanced computer software skills, including Excel, PowerPoint, and other accounting packages
• Must have completed the mandatory NYSC

Key Competencies:

• Highly motivated and result oriented with a keen eye for details
• Revenue assurance
• Good time management skills and the ability to prioritize
• Strong attention to detail and an investigative mind
• Problem-solving skills and initiative
• Ability to keep confidential information and always remain discreet
• Ability to work and deliver within deadline with minimal supervision
• Good understanding of IFRS 15
• Ability and willingness to meet deadlines consistently
• Integrity and high personal ethical standard
• Proven ability to calculate and manage financial records
• High analytical skills
• Ability to prioritize and multitask
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work as part of a broader team of different levels
• Intermediate computer software skills, including Excel and Accounting packages
• Experience in communicating and influencing senior stakeholders
• Decisiveness, good judgement, strong organizational skills
• Self-Driven and smart working

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Location: Yaba, Lagos
Level: Financial Business Analyst 4 - Grade 8
Report to: Finance Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis
Sector: Consumer Finance

About The Role

• Paga is looking for a passionate, self-driven and experienced Financial Business Analyst to join our team! As the Financial Business Analyst, you will be responsible for managing, developing, and overseeing the financial models and performance KPI in your assigned business unit(s).
• You will be responsible for analysing and advising business unit heads of their current and future expenditures for maximum ROI and project performance.
• The ideal candidate will be well-versed in financial models, excel formulas and functions, and capable of creating cost-effective budgets for future projects.
• He/She will also be responsible for developing, proposing, and implementing plans to reduce financial risks and lower costs as well as participate in project audits.

Primary Responsibilities

• Assist Finance Manager in monitoring and analysing financial accounts/performance on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis
• Create financial models to analyse trends, make financial projections, and assess financial risks
• Review and monitor annual budget; prepare quarterly budget review reports
• Develop standardised financial management and reporting tools; create internal control systems to ensure good financial management and enable early detection of fraud or errors
• Grow financial performance of business units through analysis of financial results, forecasts, variances, and trends
• Analyse business unit financial data and create financial models for decision support
• Create recommendations on financial/operational performance of business unit to be presented to management and executives
• Analyse past results, perform variance analysis, identify trends, and make recommendations for improvements
• Work closely with the financial and accounting operations team to ensure accurate financial reporting
• Guide the cost analysis process by establishing and enforcing policies and procedures
• Provide analysis of trends and forecasts and recommend actions for optimisation
• Recommend actions by analysing and interpreting data and making comparative analyses; study proposed changes in methods and materials
• Identify and drive process improvements, including the creation of standard and ad-hoc reports, tools, and excel dashboards.
• Increase productivity by developing automated reporting/forecasting tools
• Conduct comparable analysis and market research to support internal financial analysis
• Maintain a strong financial analysis foundation creating forecasts and models

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of a 2:1 in Finance, Accounting or any related field and have a professional qualification (ACCA, ICAN, CIMA) in view
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in financial analysis
• Proficiency across data, financial and strategy analysis
• Broad experience and knowledge of accounting and reporting standards
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in communicating and influencing senior stakeholders
• Advanced computer software skills, including Excel macros and other accounting packages
• Must have completed the mandatory NYSC

Key Competencies:

• An analytical approach to work
• Commercial and business awareness
• Strong attention to detail and an investigative nature
• Good time management skills and the ability to prioritise
• The capacity to make quick but rational decisions
• Problem-solving skills and initiative
• Ability to streamline functions and passion to learn and grow
• Strong interpersonal skills, including written and oral communication skills
• Comfort dealing with ambiguity and the ability to work independently
• Experience working with, and presenting to, senior executives
• Strong financial modelling experience
• Integrity and high personal ethical standards

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Location: Yaba, Lagos
Career Level: Grade 5 & 6 - Senior Analyst
Reports To: Reconciliation Manager
Sector: Consumer Finance

About The Role

• The Reconciliation Officer will provide support to department activities with specific responsibility for the processing, recording, updating, and reconciling financial information.
• The Officer will contribute to the efficient and effective workings of the finance department by executing daily tasks with a strong attention to detail.
• This role will utilize good teamwork, strong accounting knowledge, time management skills and effective problem solving to ensure success.

Primary Responsibilities

• Perform reconciliations, analyse, investigate, and resolve variances and reconciling items.
• Review and reconcile third party and Pagatech transactions to ensure accurate billing in a timely manner.
• Maintain accounting controls by following policies and procedures, complying with financial legal requirements.
• Effectively and efficiently manage resolution of disputed transactions in collaboration with customer support and the affected business partner.
• Assisting with Monthly and Year End tasks.
• Other ad-hoc tasks as assigned by management.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of a 2:1 (Preferably in Finance / Accounting)
• At least 4 years’ relevant experience in demonstrable experience.
• Knowledge and experience of reconciliation and e-settlements.
• Must be able to work in a high-velocity, high performance environment
• Must have completed the mandatory NYSC

Key Competencies:

• Initiative
• Self- driven and hardworking
• Organized
• Multitask and manage competing priorities
• Detail oriented
• Good team player
• Flexibility
• Problem solving skills
• Time management skills
• Strong MS Office skills, especially WORD and EXCEL
• Attention to Details
• Speed and accuracy
• Task ownership
• Ability to learn fast.
• Communication skills