Reconciliation Officer Job at Paga Limited

Paga is a licensed financial services company and a leading payments company in Nigeria with a massive transformative purpose - to make it simple for one billion people to access and use money. It was founded on the simple belief that the ubiquity of mobile phones can be leveraged in building an ecosystem that enables people to digitally send and receive money and creating simple financial access for everyone.

We are recruiting suitable candidates to fill the position below:

Job Position: Reconciliation Officer

Job Location: Yaba, Lagos
Employment type: Full-time
Department: Business Operations
Sector: Consumer Finance
Career Level: Grade 5
Reports To: Reconciliation Manager

About the Role

• The Reconciliation Officer will provide support to department activities with specific responsibility for the processing, recording, updating, and reconciling financial information.
• The Officer will contribute to the efficient and effective workings of the finance department by executing daily tasks with a strong attention to detail.
• This role will utilize good teamwork, strong accounting knowledge, time management skills and effective problem solving to ensure success.

Primary Responsibilities

• Perform reconciliations, analyse, investigate, and resolve variances and reconciling items.
• Review and reconcile third party and Pagatech transactions to ensure accurate billing in a timely manner.
• Assisting with Monthly and Year End tasks.
• Maintain accounting controls by following policies and procedures, complying with financial legal requirements.
• Effectively and efficiently manage resolution of disputed transactions in collaboration with customer support and the affected business partner.
• Other ad-hoc tasks as assigned by management.

Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience of reconciliation and e-settlements.
• At least 4 years of relevant experience in demonstrable experience.
• Must be able to work in a high-velocity, high performance environment
• Must have completed the mandatory NYSC.

Key Competencies:

• Initiative
• Self- driven and hardworking
• Organized
• Multitask and manage competing priorities
• Time management skills
• Strong MS Office skills, especially WORD and EXCEL
• Attention to Details
• Speed and accuracy
• Detail oriented
• Good team player
• Flexibility
• Problem solving skills
• Task ownership
• Ability to learn fast.
• Communication skills.

Note: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity inclusion. We do not discriminate on grounds of colour, race, nationality, religion, age, ethnic origin, disability, gender, marital status, or sexual orientation in our employment practices.