Job Vacancies at Cellulant

Cellulant is a leading Pan African payments company that provides locally relevant and alternative payment methods for global, regional and local merchants. We provide a single API payments platform - Tingg - that enables businesses to collect payments online and offline while allowing anyone to pay from their mobile money, local and international cards or directly from their bank. 

We are recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the following positions below:

1.) Regulatory Research Analyst

Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: Compliance

About The Role

• We seek an experienced individual with in-depth knowledge of the regulatory environment to fill the Research Analyst role in our Risk and Compliance department.
• The successful individual will work closely with the Head, Regulatory Intelligence and Strategy to ensure the development, implementation, and coordination of Cellulant’s Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) engagements.

Responsibilities
The role holder would be required to:

• Coordinate the road map for regulatory engagement
• Work with the Head of Regulatory Intelligence and Strategy to develop and execute a Regulatory Intelligence strategy.
• Work with the Head of Regulatory Intelligence and Strategy in the development and implementation of systems and processes to monitor the regulatory environment for changes that may have an impact on Cellulant's standards, programs and goals.
• Partner with Government Affairs and Public Policy to understand and monitor evolving public policy trends and work with internal stakeholders to identify opportunities and risks.
• Support the Head of Regulatory Intelligence and Strategy to coordinate Research and Development (R&D) for the Risk and Compliance team.
• Carry out other ADHOC duties as assigned.

Qualifications and Experience

• Have a minimum of a Degree with at least 3 years in a similar role
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills
• Ability to pay attention to details
• Ability to lead a team effectively
• Excellent writing and oral skills.

Competencies and Key Requirements:

• Good interpersonal and relationship management skills, since the role deals with people at all levels in Cellulant.
• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to articulate complex concepts in a clear manner
• Assess emerging regulatory and ESG program trends and evolve programs to meet external stakeholder expectations.
• Experience in leading risk management activities
• Assess emerging regulatory and ESG program trends and evolve programs to meet external stakeholder expectations.
• Experience in leading risk management activities
• Enthusiasm, leadership, and a strong work ethic, fit for a dynamic, fast-moving and result- orientated environment.

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Note: If you don't hear back from us within 14 days from your application please consider your application unsuccessful.

2.) Head of Finance - Controllership

Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: Controllership

Job Summary

• You will be responsible for providing and interpreting financial information to the business at different levels.
• You will be responsible for cash flow management and interpreting future trends and advising the business accordingly.
• You will oversee AR & AP management and manage current and future financing facilities and develop financial management mechanisms that minimize financial risks.
• You will be responsible for annual budget preparation and budgetary compliance, annual financial audits, tax/governance compliance, fixed asset register management, people management, and other duties as may be assigned by your supervisor.
• You will ensure that the company delivers on its promise of Accelerating Economic Growth for Africa through Payments by consistently meeting and exceeding its objectives both financial and non-financial.

Core Responsibilities
Financial Accounting and Reporting:

• Ensure the highest standards of financial control and governance
• Ensure absolute rigor around the reconciliation process, balance sheet management and effective independent reviews of Settlement Reconciliations.
• Responsibility for external audits and audited financial statements
• Ensuring that accounting is always carried out in accordance with relevant accounting standards.
• Develop and oversee a Risk and Control framework for activities within area of responsibility.
• Ensure that the Team develop deep understanding of the business to provide optimal support
• Optimize banking relationships, cost and cash management for all non-customer bank accounts and optimize cash generation from timely billing and collection of  receivables.
• Ensure compliance on all taxes per relevant regulations lines.

Financial Planning and Analysis:

• Build excellent partnership relationships with all stakeholders & keep abreast of business strategy and direction
• Ensure that the Business receives timely and concise reporting focused on telling the story behind the numbers, providing forward looking advice, guidance and recommendations.
• Partner with the commercial teams to support strategy execution around business objectives.
• Annual Budget preparation: liaising with various departments for the annual budgeting cycle and carrying out reviews with the department heads on budget utilization.
• Ensure budgetary compliance and zero deviation from budgets.
• Ensure rolling forecasts for the business are implemented and updated.
• Provide strategic financial input in decision-making and play a key management and leadership role in executing efficient processes across the organization.
• Work with the General Manager to identify business success drivers (KPIs), monitor and report progress against KPI targets, identify gaps, and recommend corrective actions.

Qualifications, Skills & Personal Attributes

• Bachelor's Degree (Commerce / Accounting / other relevant fields) CPA or ACCA.
• Excellent knowledge of accounting and financial processes (budgeting, financial closure, reporting, etc.).
• Assets & Liabilities Management.
• Performance management.
• Exceptional communication and excellent Interpersonal Skills.
• Self-motivated and critical thinker.
• A proactive and creative problem solver.
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• Exceptional judgment & professionalism, and discretion in handling confidential and sensitive situations and matters.

Must Have Experience:

• 10+ years of experience in finance & accounting with 3 of those years in senior management.
• Experience with accounting systems and CRM systems.
• Experience streamlining, refining, and automating financial processes.
• Track record of working with technology leaders to manage critical financial management and reporting systems.
• Experience leading and managing the financial operations and strategy for a Company with hyper-growth and complex challenges across a broad scope of work.
• Experience in a senior financial management role working closely with executive staff and a board of directors is preferred.
• Broad business background working at a senior level across multiple functional areas.
• Strong background in financial management (systems) with a thorough understanding of financial regulations.

Experience that will count in your favor:

• Experience working with remote finance operations - shared services is an added advantage.
• Success operating in environments with a high risk of fraud and leakage.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, be comfortable in a fast-paced environment, and adapt to change and growth.

Nice To Have Experience:

• Experience in a payments company.

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3.) Principal, Operational Risk

Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: Compliance
Reporting to: Group Chief Risk and Compliance Officer

Job Description

• This role leads the Governance, Risk Management and Compliance work streams in Cellulant.
• The role holder will actively participate and contribute to the deployment of the right controls environment and management approach that assure Cellulant and its stakeholders are safeguarded.

Key Relationships and Stakeholders:

• All business lines and functions, Cellulant clients and partners, Regulators in all Cellulant markets, Third-party suppliers and Auditors.

Core Responsibilities
Leadership:

• Attend relevant leadership meetings and support oversight of compliance in all markets.
• In the event of serious breaches of regulation or board risk tolerances, ensure EXCO and relevant regulators are informed; actions are taken quickly to remediate the issues; and the activities are discontinued.
• Be accountable for identification and escalation of potential risks and issues to EXCO through appropriate governance channels. In addition to periodic reporting and timely escalation of significant risks and issues arising from compliance and operational risk monitoring and assurance activities.
• Coordinate the management of audits and exams.
• Track significant issues from compliance metrics, assurance activities, audit reviews and regulatory inspections, providing validation of issue closure where necessary.
• Support all control checks undertaken by the company as part of risk management and ensure that business lines and functions implement quality assurance standards and workflows/SOPs for their activities.
• Develop, update and recommend, for relevant approvals, appropriate policies/processes/SOPs to address compliance and other operational risks, while aligning with relevant regulatory requirements.

People:

• Provide leadership, management and coaching to direct reports to ensure they are highly engaged and performing to their potential 
• Promote a culture of openness, trust and risk awareness, where ethical, legal, regulatory and policy compliant conduct is the norm. In addition to ensuring forward planning, prioritization, deadline management and collaboration towards effective and efficient work practices

Business:

• Support the business to make decisions based on current and future policies, practices and trends.
• Support the resolution of competing requirements between regulations, for example between AML regulations and data privacy or information security regulations.
• Keep track of and provide advice to relevant stakeholders on the interpretation and application of regulatory expectations, best practices and policies related to Risk & Compliance.

Risk Management:

• Maintain oversight of risk management framework- both execution and supervisory. As well as provide advice on its application.
• Implement AML, Sanctions, ABC risks identification and assessment methodologies and oversee the review and analysis of Cellulant client base to identify and manage high risk clients.

Regulatory and Business Conduct:

• Show exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct 
• Contribute in embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct across Cellulant.
• This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with the letter and spirit of all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.

Qualifications & Experience
Qualification:

• A Bachelor's Degree in Law, Finance, Business Administration, or any other relevant field.

Must have experience:

• At least 8 years of relevant experience within Compliance roles ideally within reputable financial institutions or the payments industry. Experience should include:
  • Solid working knowledge of financial services regulations with a strong understanding of the local regulatory regime.
  • Liaising with senior management on corporate and/or regulatory strategy

Experience that will Count in Your Favor:

• People and Knowledge Management

Nice to have experience:

• Certification in compliance, preferably CAMS

Skills:

• Presentation skills, Interpersonal skills, and Analytical skills

Personal Attributes:

• Credibility
• Openness to defense 
• Strategic thinker

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