Reconciliation Officer Job at Paga Limited

Paga is a licensed financial services company and a leading payments company in Nigeria with a massive transformative purpose - to make it simple for one billion people to access and use money. It was founded on the simple belief that the ubiquity of mobile phones can be leveraged in building an ecosystem that enables people to digitally send and receive money and creating simple financial access for everyone.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Reconciliation Officer

Job Location: Yaba, Lagos
Job type: Full-time
Sector: Consumer Finance
Department: Platform Finance Operations
Reports to: Head, Platform Finance Operations

About the Role

• The 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 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 Monthly and Year End tasks.
• Other ad-hoc tasks as assigned by management.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of a 2:1 (Preferably in Finance /Accounting)
• At least 4 years of relevant experience in demonstrable experience.
• Knowledge and experience of reconciliation and e-settlements.
• 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
• 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.