Job Description
Department: Finance
Sector: Consumer Finance
Career Level: Entry Level
Reports To: Head, Finance Operations
About the Role
- The Junior Reconciliation Officer will provide support to department activities with specific responsibility for the processing, recording, updating and reconciling financial information.
- The Officer will contribute to the efficient and effective workings of the finance department by executing daily tasks with a strong attention to detail.
- This role will utilize good teamwork, strong accounting knowledge, time management skills and effective problem solving to ensure success.
Primary Responsibilities
- Perform POS / bank reconciliations, analyse, investigate and resolve variances and reconciling items.
- Review and reconcile third party and Pagatech transactions to ensure accurate billing in a timely manner.
- Maintain accounting controls by following policies and procedures; complying with financial legal requirements.
- Effectively and efficiently manage resolution of disputed transactions in collaboration with customer support and the affected business partner.
- Assisting with month-end and year-end tasks.
Knowledge and Skill Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of a 2:1 (Preferably in Finance / Accounting)
- 1 - 2 years’ relevant experience in demonstrable experience
- Problem solving skills
- Time management skills
- Strong MS Office skills, especially WORD and EXCEL
- Attention to details
- Speed and accuracy
- Task ownership
- Ability to learn fast.
- Communication skills
- Must be able to work in a high-velocity, high performance environment
- Must have completed the mandatory NYSC.
Key Competencies:
- Initiative
- Self- driven and hardworking
- Organized
- Multitask and manage competing priorities
- Detail oriented
- Good team player
- Flexibility.