Finance Associate Job at mPharma Nigeria

At mPharma, we start and end our day thinking about how we can enable patients to afford their medications. We’re a small but growing team of 350+ members, headquartered in Accra, Ghana, backed by mission-driven investors. We’ve joined hands with third-party payers, drug manufacturers and healthcare providers to develop products and services that directly reduce the costs of prescription drugs for patients. In only a few years, we’ve managed to provide low-cost, high-quality medicines to hundreds of thousands of patients across seven African countries (Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Malawi & Rwanda).

We are recruiting to fill the following position below:

Job Position: Finance Associate

Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-Time
Department: Country Finance

Job Description

• We are looking for a Finance Associate to join our Nigeria operations. In this role, the Associate will be expected to interface with clients, suppliers, tax authorities, and other regulatory bodies.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure accuracy of data monitoring mechanisms for facilities’ weekly revenues, deposits, bank balances, and withdrawals. Where necessary, collaborate with the Operations team to collect information on revenue.
• Managing and coordinating monthly reporting, budgeting and forecast processes.
• Ensure Customers’ ledgers are updated in time to enable real-time decision making
• Identification and Minimisation of risk associated with Investment Portfolios
• Collaboration with Operations to ensure the unit’s annual objectives are met.
• Receivable management -working closely with the collections team to obtain payment based on agreed payment period.
• Financial analysis and determining viable investment opportunities via NPV, ROCE and other methods in collaboration with Operations
• Computation of cash and recovery analysis
• Manages the Business Unit’s expenditures to ensure that there are proper authorization and approval and spends are within the approved budget
• Responsible for identifying highly liquid investments in which idle cash can be invested and ensuring an adequate balance between risk and return
• Any other duties as assigned by the Finance Manager.

Requirements

• ICAN / ACCA / CFA membership required
• 3 - 5 years of experience in managing receivables & financial reporting preferred
• A B.Sc / HND in Accounting or Finance-related field from an accredited university / Polytechnic.
• High proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint etc.), Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides), and Accounting packages.
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Creative and Innovative
• Self-motivated and able to take responsibility
• Proactive and dogged
• Strong multi-tasking and analytical skills
• Methodical, accurate, and consistent attention to detail (figures & numbers)
• Able to manage sensitive and confidential information

Admin:

• Reports to the Finance Manager.

Benefits
Offered a competitive salary and stock options in mPharma.

Note

• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis so you are encouraged to submit your application as soon as possible
• At mPharma we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities, and our hiring process and work environment are devoid of discriminatory practices.
• We promise exciting and rewarding career opportunities in an environment driven by high performance, an entrepreneurial mindset, and innovation.