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 Title: Financial Accountant

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.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.