Senior Associate, Finance Operations at Babban Gona Farmer Services Nigeria Limited

Babban Gona Agricultural Franchise is a financially sustainable, high impact and highly scalable social enterprise, which is part-owned by the farmers it serves. Babban Gona is an innovative model designed to serve the bottom of the pyramid and transform agriculture into a job-creation engine. Through this agricultural franchise, Babban Gona offers a suite of services to smallholder farmers, helping them to overcome the challenges of fragmentation and low economies of scale.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Associate, Finance Operations

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Lead a team of financial associates and analyst toward achieving preset goals.
• Prepare and facilitate completion of complex contractual agreements, reports, letters, memos, etc.
• Develop guidance documents for financial processes and train staff on their use.
• Performs a variety of administrative and clerical activities to ensure financial and personnel requirements are met in a timely manner
• Verify that transfer requests meet guidelines
• Ensure that staff expenditure requests meet guidelines and budget limits
• Provide support to management during year end closing which includes helping process transfers and answering any questions that colleagues in the finance division might have regarding revenue, expenditures, fund movement, etc
• Measuring the monetary funds of the company in order to find out whether they will affect the execution of all the enterprise projects.
• Approve third party payments through accurate reconciliation of financial records
• Monitor and manage credit cards and invoice payments for farmers
• Act as the main point of contact for addressing any inquiries and questions related to financial operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Banking, Business or Economics
• Master's degree in finance and/or MBA preferred
• 7 years of work experience in finance and accounting
• Profound know-how in advanced financial analysis and investment banking
• Familiar with data query/data management tools (Access, SQL, Business Objects)
• Ability to streamline functions and passion to learn and grow
• Strong interpersonal skills, including written and oral communication skills
• Excellent quantitative and analytical skill
• Ability to work as a team as well as independently
• Experience working with, and presenting to, senior executives.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health Insurance
• Pension
• Performance Bonus
• Annual paid vacation
• Group Life Insurance.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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