Financial Controller Job at Terragon Limited

Terragon is Africa’s fastest-growing enterprise marketing technology company. We aggregate and enrich difficult-to-source consumer data, generating measurable outcomes for telco’s, banks, and larger brands. Terragon uses its on-demand marketing cloud platform, attribution software, and deep analytics capability to enable thoughtful, targeted omni-channel access to 100m+ mobile-first African consumers.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Financial Controller

Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Responsibilities

• Streamlining accounting functions and operations.
• Coordinating audit processes
• Monthly reporting of (consolidated) financial management information including profit or loss, cash flow statement, balance sheet and key performance metrics. Explain developments in margins, balances and other metrics.
• Weekly reporting on revenue, cost of sales and cash flow.
• Bi weekly reporting on cash flow forecast
• Developing plans for financial growth.
• Support the sales and product development processes by reviewing contracts and business models.
• Evaluating and managing risk.
• Recommend financial actions by analyzing accounting options.
• Preparation of the monthly bank reconciliation of the accounts of the company.
• Prepare and check sales invoices based on information received from customer success and sales departments
• Prepare and make payments
• Book and document all financial transactions and commitments in SAP and ensure that
• supporting documentation is stored in (electronic) archive. This covers revenue, costs,
• purchases of fixed assets.
• Reconcile financial discrepancies by collecting and analyzing account information needed for the audit of financial statements
• Reconcile bank account statements with SAP on a daily basis
• Maintain accounting controls by preparing and recommending policies and procedures – check effectiveness of controls with a focus on revenue assurance, cost control and safeguarding of assets.
• Liaising with accounting officers with respect to bills receivable, bills payable, etc and monitor timely collection of accounts receivables.
• Prepare documentation for capital calls
• Compute statutory taxes i.e VAT, PAYE, local government and preparation of tax returns, ensure compliance with payment, reporting and other tax requirements.

Job Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience
• In the possession of a Masters’ degree in Accounting, Finance or relevant discipline
• Professional qualification such as ACA, ACCA or CFA
• Solid knowledge of all other finance operations including treasury, payments, accounting for foreign exchange transactions, controls.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships
• Strong analytical skill set both numerical as well as legal
• High level of commercial acumen
• Advanced computer software skills, especially Excel (ability to work with complex formulas), PowerPoint and Word.
• Solid knowledge of bookkeeping and preparing monthly reporting sets to management
• Advanced and hands-on knowledge of SAP B1
• Fast experience with developing and monitoring of performance metrics critical to business growth
• Solid knowledge of tax and other applicable company laws and regulations in Nigeria.
• Strong leadership skills and track record of bringing structure to a finance department and developing junior team members
• Experience with finance functions in other African countries will be considered an advantage.

Salary
N3,600,000 - N5,400,000 annually.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Application and a Cover Letter describing why you are a good fit for the job to: careers@terragonltd.com using the "Job Title" as the subject of the email.