Finance Officer

Job Summary

• To provide support in bookkeeping, capturing of accounting transactions, bank reconciliation and reporting on financial transactions.
• Prepares records for remittance of statutory deductions such as: Value Added Tax (VAT), Withholding Tax (WHT), Capital Gain Tax and staff related statutory payments i.e. PAYE, Pension, NHF, etc.

  Responsibilities

• Updates account payable and receivable ledgers for all purchases, including payments to vendors for products or services.
• Receives invoice and requisition for goods and services and also process payments accordingly.
• Prepares and update prepayments, accruals and provisions schedules and ledger.
• Prepares weekly report for payment transactions.
• Prepares periodic or monthly reconciliation of all accounts to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Relates effectively with the organisation’s financial service providers.
• Documents and update records of all fixed assets to ensure assets are properly valued, accounted for and safeguarded.
• Work closely with the Customer experience officer to manage all settlements and chargeback requests/issues on the platform.
• Reconcile all Xpresswallet, Shago and ZojaPay transactions via the different dashboard.
• Preparation of daily, monthly, and weekly transaction reports for ZojaPay
• Manage all funding requests for ZojaPay’s various 3rd party integration – Termii, Shago, AWS, Postman, Forge & Dojah in conjunction with the Application officer.
• Submit approved payment requests to Finance and Accounts staff to ensure timely processing of relevant invoices.
• Updates account payable and receivable ledgers for all purchases, including payments to vendors for products or services.
• Receives invoice and requisition for goods and services and also process payments accordingly.
• Prepares and update prepayments, accruals and provisions schedules and ledger.
• Prepares weekly report for payment transactions.
• Prepares periodic or monthly reconciliation of all accounts to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Relates effectively with the organisation’s financial service providers.
• Documents and update records of all fixed assets to ensure assets are properly valued, accounted for and safeguarded.
• Reviews records for remittance of staff related statutory payments i.e. PAYE, Pension, NHF, etc.
• Prepares monthly account and compute appropriate taxes; VAT and WHT schedules.
• Processes expense retirement ledgers to ensure proper accountability of all cash advances.
• Assists in the generation of financial reports as required by management.
• Handles all aspects of assigned bookkeeping activities such as journals and nominal ledger administration by updating the accounting application with transactions as they occur.
• Implements accounting controls in day-to-day performance of tasks (e.g. confirm the accuracy of general ledger codes on the accounting system).
• Implements accounting controls in day-to-day performance of tasks (e.g. confirm the accuracy of general ledger codes on the accounting system).
• Documents and updates records of all assets to ensure proper valuation and security.
• Collates and consolidates financial information from all business units and prepares trial balances.
• Performs other duties that may be assigned by the Finance Manager.