Assistant Manager, Trade Services at Airtel

Job Purpose

To oversee all Vendor Payment Unit & Trade services functions of the Account Payables 

Key Accountabilities

1. Account Payable Reports  
To ensure that all the AP reports (GIT, NCC, NOTAP & Strategic Vendors Payments Reports) are produce within the expected timeline.

2. Validation of Vendor Invoices  
To ensure that all invoices are validated on same day basis upon review for the correctness of accounting entries and applicable taxes.

3. Foreign Payments  
To plan and coordinate the settlement of all foreign payments through CBN as at when due in the most efficient manner and at most optimal cost possible.

4. Vendor Payments 
To ensure that all due invoices are allocated and processed on same day basis once they fall due.

5. Relationship management 
To manage relationship with Internal and external customers as well as relevant regulators such as NIBSS, NCC & NOTAP.

6. Internal controls and reporting 
To ensure that all relevant policies in Account Payable are effective adhere to without failure.

Requirements

Educational Qualifications  & Functional / Technical Skills

• A university degree i.e. B. Sc./HND in Social Sciences or any numerate discipline.
• Masters degree and/ or MBA will be an added advantage.
• Professional qualification (ACIB, ACA, ACCA, CPA) will be an added advantage

Relevant Experience

• Minimum of 6 years post-NYSC experience in a   related function in a multinational or foreign operations department/credit   administration function in a banking environment

Other requirements

•   Good interpersonal relationship
•   Must have good understanding of ERP (Oracle, Sage etc.)
•   Good Microsoft office skill
•   Ability to supervise others to achieve result
•   Knowledge of International & trade services
•   Result oriented
•   Attention for details
•   Ability to Coordinate activities