Senior Finance Associate, Lome (Togo)
Sun King
Sun King is seeking a Senior Finance Associate to join the Finance team in Togo. This role will play a key part in supporting the region’s financial operations, including budgeting, financial reporting, and analysis, while also ensuring the team has the capacity to effectively manage financial records and accounts. The successful candidate will possess strong problem-solving and communication skills, be proficient in financial software, and demonstrate the ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team.
- Department
- Finance & Legal
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Togo
- Workplace type
- Onsite
- Reporting To
- Finance Manager, Francophone
What you would be expected to do
- Receive and process all Purchase Orders, Invoices, Expense Forms, and request for payments.
- Reconciliation of processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances.
- Perform daily, weekly and monthly reconciliations of Telco and Banks Accounts.
- Ensure accurate and timely recording of financial transactions in accurate accounts and cost centers (AP, AR, GL entries).
- Charge expenses to accounts and cost centers by reviewing invoice/expense reports; recording entries.
- Maintaining filing systems of all accounting and finance documents and vouchers in a manner which ensures ease in retrieval and reference.
- Scheduling and preparing payments on the Payment Tracker.
- Perform monthly inventory counts and reconciliation
- Asset accounting and management
- Perform tax computation, declaration and remittance
You might be a strong candidate if you
- Higher National Diploma/ Bachelors. Degree in Finance, Accounting or any related other related field. ACA/ACCA Qualification will be an added advantage.
- Have a minimum of 5 years’ experience as finance professional or related role.
- Are proficient in integrated financial management software, (added advantage).
- Are a Computer literate; proficient in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Extensive knowledge of accounting standards, fiscal procedures, and applicable tax codes.
- Exceptional attention to detail.
- Excellent teamwork and communication skills.
- Great evaluative reasoning and problem-solving abilities.
- Superb organizational and time-management skills
What Sun King Offers
- An opportunity to grow as a professional in a dynamic, fast-growing, high impact industry;
- The chance to work in an open-minded, collaborative culture surrounded by enthusiastic Sun King employees who are driven by the need of continuously innovating and growing an innovative, sustainable business with a profound impact on the world;
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Academy.
About Sun King
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.
Sun King employs 2,800 full-time staff in 12 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families.