Financial Accountant Recruitment at TeamApt

TeamApt is Nigeria’s largest Agency banking operator and is now building the largest digital bank offering financial services products tailored to meet the needs of the underserved mass market - micropayments, savings, lending, insurance, pensions - using technology and low-cost offline distribution models. We believe providing financial access to the over 350 million Africans who are currently financially underserved will economically empower them and put them on a path to becoming the next generation of middle-class Africans.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Financial Accountant

Job Location: Lagos (Remote)
Job Type: Contract

About the Role

• We are looking for a highly organized and self-motivated Financial Accountant to join our Business Bookkeeping and accounting team.
• The accountant will be responsible for helping the team make better decisions on accounting standards.
• Domain knowledge in retail accounting and experience working as a retail accountant is a plus. 

Job Description
What you’ll get to do:

• Advice on retail accounting industry standards.
• Join business deep dives.
• Must be able to use existing accounting tools
• Reconciling the company’s bank statements and bookkeeping ledgers
• Managing income and expenditure accounts

Requirements
To succeed in this role, we think you should have:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field such as Finance, Economics, etc. (plus good to have or working towards relevant professional qualifications )
• 3+ years of relevant experience in analytical roles.
• A first principle thinking mindset to keenly analyse information with a view of simplifying and solving complex problems.
• Excellent to advanced proficiency in Excel
• Domain knowledge in retail accounting and experience working as a retail accountant is a plus. 
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence in a cross-functional environment.