Company Summary
AZA Finance is an established provider of currency trading and cross-border payment solutions which accelerate global access to frontier markets through an innovative infrastructure. By leveraging cutting edge technology in our flagship products, AZA is able to significantly lower the cost and increase the speed of business payments to, from and across frontier markets. Our API product provides both wholesale currency purchase and retail settlement via our robust API while our Web-Based platform is our B2B over-the-counter product that caters to businesses with wholesale currency needs, especially those paying partners and suppliers.
Our partners utilise our hybrid financial infrastructure and deep local knowledge to manage liquidity and send payments to dozens of bank networks, mobile money operators and payments aggregators across Africa. Licensed by the UK's FCA and the Bank of Spain, AZA is a market-maker in every major African currency. AZA was founded in 2013 and now has offices in Nairobi, Lagos, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Kampala and Dakar.
Job Summary
The Finance Manager performs all aspects of financial management, management and regulatory financial reporting, budget and forecasts preparation, researching accounting policies, issued and effective IFRS for AZA entities, in different jurisdictions and in multi-currencies. He/she will ensure the availability of all financial information required to support management and other stakeholders in strategic decision-making. The responsibilities also include ensuring monthly & annual tax and statutory reports are submitted in time, manage external audits exercise, and ad hoc projects. The role will also support business partnering and development initiatives.
Responsibilities:
Maintain complete books of records for the parent and subsidiaries entities reviewing all bookings and journals passed in the accounting software.
Oversee Senior Finance Associates in bookkeeping and accounting functions relating to client transaction, treasury trades across entities in multi-currencies.
Responsible for general ledger management, balance sheet account reconciliations and accounting controls for posting to the accounting software across entities.
Provide oversight on treasury and bank statement reconciliation, reconciliation approval in multiple currencies across different countries of operations.
Provide oversight on month end work plan, coordination, timeline management and finance/accounting concerns.
Oversee the preparation of month end P&L;, balance sheet and cashflow statement, translations and consolidation.
Oversee preparation of financial regulatory reports for Spanish entity.
Review and oversee the Inter-company/ related parties' transactions, loans, interest expenses and reconciliation in line with the group operations guidelines.
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