Account Officer at Baobab Microfinance Bank

Baobab Microfinance Bank is the foremost digital financial inclusion group in Africa and China, serving individuals, micro and small companies. Our objective is to help our clients realise their full potential by providing straightforward and easy-to-use financial services. Baobab, which began as Microcred in 2005, now has over a million consumers and 3,800 staff in Burkina Faso, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, and Tunisia.

Title: Account Officer

Location: Yaba, Lagos

Employment Type: Full-time

General Responsibilities

• Verify, allocate, post, and reconcile accounts payable and receivable.
• Produce error-free ad-hoc accounting reports and present their results.
• Analyse financial information and summarise financial status.
• Spot errors and suggest ways to improve efficiency.
• Participate in financial standards implementation and budgeting/forecast process.
• Provide input into the department’s goal-setting process.
• Support in the preparation of financial statements.
• Assist with tax audits and tax returns.
• Work with the internal and external audits.
• Support month-end and year-end close processes.
• Assist in developing and documenting business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls.
• Ensure compliance with IFRS, CBN guidelines & and circulars, Bank policies, and procedures.
• Perform timely and accurate settlement of all e-transactions on all channels (POS, Web, Mobile), various payment platforms with the Processors/Switch (e.g. Interswitch, NIBSS)
• Ensure the timely and accurate remittance of collections via the Bank’s Branches on the various e-payments platforms is deployed to various billers in line with the SLAs.
• Liaise with stakeholders to review existing settlement processes to provide automation required for increased efficiency and amendment/correction/enhancement of existing applications.

Requirements

• B.Sc or HND in Accounting, Finance or Economics
• Minimum of 3 years experience.
• Advanced Excel and IFRS knowledge
• Recently completed ICAN ATS/Passed Skill examination or ACCA.

Deadline: 31st October, 2023.

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