Finance Business Partner

Summary

Join Moniepoint Inc., Africa's leading financial ecosystem, as a Finance Business Partner for our Payments Business Unit. This dynamic role involves designing and implementing scalable financial processes, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, and collaborating with product teams. You will manage the BU's chart of accounts, support monthly/year-end close processes, prepare financial analyses, and assist with budgeting and forecasting. The ideal candidate is a proven finance professional with 3-5 years of experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. Moniepoint offers a supportive culture, learning opportunities, and a competitive compensation package including pension, health insurance, and an annual bonus.

Requirements

• You’re a proven finance professional with 3 - 5 years of experience
• Advanced finance, accounting, and operations experience
• Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth industry with a history of leveraging technology to scale with the business
• Demonstrated knowledge of financial reporting, key business financial metrics, providing metrics inputs to various reporting venues, and communicating key performance indicators to stakeholders in support of business objectives
• Proficient in obtaining, organizing, and analyzing data to challenge conventional wisdom, make fact-based decisions, drive root cause analysis, and evaluate outcomes
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math); MBA preferred
• Qualified accountant with a management accounting background (ACA, CIMA, ACCA, ICAN, etc)

Responsibilities

• Design and implement product financial control processes that ensure the integrity of product GL balances
• Collaborate with product teams to define accounting logic and flows for new products, ensuring compliance with all relevant accounting standards
• Support the product teams in reviewing existing product accounting flows to identify potential gaps and non-compliance with accounting standards. Work with the product teams to fix any issues that may be identified during the review process
• Ensure all product accounting configurations are properly documented and updated where necessary, including preparing technical accounting memos on the treatment of special transactions
• Manage the BUs chart of accounts, ensuring that existing GLs are properly named and classified and new GLs are properly created in line with established processes
• Collaborate with the settlement and reconciliation team to ensure timely uploading of bank statements and reconciliation of all settlement receivable/payable positions
• Maintain relevant GL schedules that tie to GL balances and that can serve as supporting documentation during the external audit process
• Support the monthly and year-end close processes, including posting relevant journal entries into product GLs
• Prepare relevant monthly and ad-hoc balance sheets, income statement analyses and commentaries
• Support the FP&A team with the budgeting and forecasting process

Preferred Qualifications

MBA

Benefits

• Attractive salary
• Pension
• Health insurance
• Annual bonus