Senior Finance Associate
Sun King
Accounting & Finance
Malawi
Posted on Sep 17, 2025
Job location: Lilongwe, Malawi
About the role:
The Senior Associate will be assigned to the Accounts Department under the close supervision of the Finance Manager for Malawi & Tanzania.
About the role:
The Senior Associate will be assigned to the Accounts Department under the close supervision of the Finance Manager for Malawi & Tanzania.
- Application Deadline
- October 15, 2025
- Department
- Finance & Legal
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Malawi
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
What you will be expected to do
- General Ledger Monitoring - Oversee Postings, Ledger Control, Cleanup of Balance Sheet
- Accounts Payable –
- Oversee and supervise the role.
- Ensuring that Supplier balances are legit and well explained.
- Ensuring that all expense postings are accurate and consistent.
- Assist in answering queries to MIS team.
- Streamline Processes in conjunction with Procurement regarding to this role
- Accounts Receivable –
- Oversee and supervise the role.
- Ensuring that Customer balances are legitimate and explainable.
- Following up with respective account managers on Overdue accounts by ensuring proper posting of receipts.
- Assist with approval of sales orders before giving final approval to Operations team to release inventory from warehouse after confirming receipt of funds.
- Bank & General Ledger Reconciliations to ensure that all banks have been reconciled on both weekly and Monthly basis. These include bank accounts and mobile money wallets plus ensuring daily sweeps from mobile collections reflect in bank
- Closely Monitor all General Ledgers to ensure they are consistent and extreme movements explained
- Collaborate closely with the other senior finance associate to ensure taxes are filed within stipulated timelines (WHTax and VAT) and work with Finance controller to ensure that Tax Payments are processed in a timely manner through rigorous checks on MSonkho vs Payroll POPs shared.
- Month End Close Procedure - Depreciation, Purchase GIT, Salary and Bonus entries Bookings, Assist in Monthly P&L and Balance Review. This should also include monthly checks on BEFIT project costs.
- Work closely with Senior Finance Associate to ensure employee reimbursements are processed in a timely fashion through Zoho expense and Angaza credits are loaded every week to sales agents by set SLA timelines
- Ensuring that GL balances are explainable
- Ensuring that Fixed Assets, Rent and Prepaid Trackers are well updated and balances lying therein are matching the GL balances
- Monitoring and ensuring that Costs associated to shipments (COGS) are well distributed and following up with Ops for closure
- Work closely with Marketing team In Review of Marketing expenses
- Intercompany Transactions: Maintain record of all Inter-Company Transactions. This entails assisting with Intercompany Reconciliations with respective related parties
- Annually work closely with Finance Manager to close annual statutory audits within the stipulated timelines
- Any other duties as assigned by the managers.
You might be a strong candidate if you have/are
- Degree in Finance, Accounting or any related other related field. CPA/ACCA Finalist is a MUST.
- Must be Computer literate; proficient in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Must have strong Analytical and Communication skills.
- Team player and proactive to learn.
- Must be honest and of high integrity.
- Must be able to work under pressure with strict deadlines and with minimal or no supervision.
- Proficient in Data Entry and Management.
- 5 years Accounts Payable and Receivables or General Accounting Experience.
What Sun King offers
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- 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 that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.
About Sun King
Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection. Sun King has connected more than 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding over 200,000 homes each month.
Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.11 a day via mobile money or cash.
Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright. To date, our Sun King solar products have saved customers more than $4 billion cumulatively.
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 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.
From cost-effective solar systems that provide home lighting and phone charging to robust solar inverters that can power high-energy appliances such as laptops, computers, refrigerators, and more, effectively acting as a full stand-in for grid power, Sun King’s products cater to a wide range of income segments and energy needs. Leveraging its proven distribution network and brand, Sun King is expanding its range of products and services to encompass clean cooking, electric mobility, entertainment, and more, aiming to address the needs of our underserved customers.
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.
Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 44% of Sun King’s workforce.
