Strategic Finance Officer
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Job summary
You will keep the ledgers, reconcile the accounts, chase what we are owed and schedule what we owe. It is detailed, exacting work, and it matters enormously. For someone early in a finance career it is also a rare opportunity: you will see a group's finance function being built from the inside, working directly with the Strategic Finance Lead.
Min Qualification:
Degree
Experience Level:
Mid level
Experience Length:
4 years
Language Requirement:
English
Work Type:
Full Time
Working Hours:
8 to 5
Applicant Location:
Nigeria
Job descriptions & requirements
Responsibilities:
- Maintain accurate, up-to-date books and ledgers for each entity in the group.
- Carry out bank, cash, and intercompany reconciliations on a regular timetable, and resolve differences promptly.
- Manage receivables: raise invoices and follow up on sponsorships, retainers, facilitation fees, and trade proceeds until they are collected.
- Manage payables: maintain the schedule of what we owe, prepare payments for approval and keep supplier records in order.
- Record costs and income against each trade transaction and mandate, so that margin can be seen deal by deal.
- Keep grant and donor-funded programme expenditure separately tracked and ready for partner reporting.
- Run day-to-day finance administration, including expense claims, petty cash and payment documentation, filed in the group's shared drive.
- Support budgeting and prepare the schedules that feed monthly management accounts.
- Keep records audit-ready and support statutory filings, tax returns and the annual audit.
Requirements:
- A degree in accounting, finance or a related field; progress towards a professional qualification (ACCA, ICAN or equivalent) is an advantage.
- Hands-on bookkeeping and reconciliation experience, and fluency with accounting software and Excel; experience with Zoho is useful.
- Precision and the persistence to chase a discrepancy until it is explained.
- Discretion with confidential financial information.
- Curiosity about how the business works and ambition to grow with the finance function.
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