As our Financial Analyst, you will:

• Ensure daily updates of QuickBooks with transactions from all sources i: e bank accounts, Mobile Money etc. 
• Track all accounts payable, Account’s receivables and reconcile payments made in; Payment Processor, Bank, Mobile Money Deposits – Checks, cash etc. 
• Execute concierge purchase requests within 15 minutes from when notified and follow up on them to ensure to cancellations or processing issues occur. 
• Create customer invoices in a timely manner for prompt payment of fees due, where needed. 
• Create receipts for delivered items or payments. 
• Review periodically to ensure that all payments received via third party payment processors are what are being deposited into our accounts.  
• Review company’s monthly payroll and prepare monthly payroll statutory deductions such as SSNIT, NHIS and PAYE for payment within statutory deadlines. 
• Key contact on all local laws and regulations for tax and compliance purposes. 
• Preparing quarterly VAT and other returns and submitting these within statutory deadlines. 
• Work with all third-party payment processors to resolve payment issues in a prompt manner and create an internal ticket to track until resolved. 
• Overall month end closure activities, including various reconciliations to ensure that financial reports are submitted to the group within 8 working days of the month end. 
• Ensure all utility payments, leases, loans, insurance policies are paid on time to avoid penalties. 
• Preparation of annual/monthly budget and assess expenditure to determine where opportunities may exist for cost saving. 
• Generate weekly analysis report of P&L and balance sheet per shipment. 
• Ensure all employees and contractors are paid no later than the 25th of each month. 
• Develop a system to effectively track outstanding customers payments. 
• Ensure financial projections for income are exceeded while expenses are minimized. 
• Monitoring of the prepared budgets to ensure that spend is per budget, as well as analyzing and explaining causes of variances / deviations, if any, from budgeted figures. 
• Ensure funds are always available to facilitate quick shipments of imports along with necessary customs and clearing fees. 
• Work with other teams and management to achieve company goal of ensuring payments are made through payment processor.
• Where necessary, work hand in hand with other departments to purchase, update, process, ship, clear and deliver packages.