Finance Senior Associate
JuicywayJob Description
Who we are
There is a business owner in Lagos who woke up this morning and still hasn't received a payment she sent last week. She's not waiting because the money isn't there. She's waiting because the infrastructure that moves it was never built with her in mind.
Juicyway exists to fix that. We are building the financial rails that connect African businesses to the world — cross-border payments, FX conversions, and global liquidity — fast, transparent, and built for the people who have been underserved by every system that came before us. Our mission isn't a slide. It's the reason we come to work: every African should be able to participate in the global economy on equal footing.
We're not improving what exists. We're replacing it.
Role Description
As our Finance Senior Associate, you will have a crucial role in maintaining the financial stability and integrity of Juicyway. Your responsibilities will include daily bank and inventory reconciliation, active participation in budgeting, meticulous filing, and accurate financial reporting. You will be responsible for journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and processing non-trade expenses. Additionally, you will oversee cash advances and petty cash transactions, ensuring compliance with tax and statutory filings, and contributing to Juicyway’s financial health and regulatory adherence.
The role is responsible for assisting with month-end close, transaction analysis, bank reconciliations, revenue and cost validation, intercompany accounting, management reporting, audit support and financial data analysis.
Given the nature of a payment business, the Finance Senior Associate must have strong attention to detail, good analytical ability and a solid understanding of transaction flows, FX margins, settlement balances, partner costs, customer funds and reconciliation processes.
Tasks
Financial Reporting Support
- Support the Financial Controller in preparing monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports.
- Assist with the month-end and year-end close process.
- Prepare supporting schedules for revenue, cost of sales, operating expenses, accruals, prepayments, intercompany balances and other key accounts.
- Support the preparation of management accounts and financial performance reports.
- Assist with ensuring accuracy and completeness of general ledger postings.
- Investigate unusual balances, variances or posting errors.
- Ensure financial records are properly maintained and supported with relevant documentation.
Revenue Assurance and Cost Validation
- Support the validation of transaction revenue, service fees, commissions and FX margins.
- Assist in checking whether expected revenue agrees with actual collections and accounting records.
- Review partner charges, bank fees, payout costs, processing fees and other direct transaction costs.
- Help identify revenue leakage, cost overstatements, pricing errors or unreconciled margin differences.
- Support corridor, product and partner profitability analysis.
- Work with Treasury, Operations and Product teams to validate transaction-level financial data.
Treasury and FX Accounting Support
- Assist in tracking FX gains and losses across currencies and entities.
- Support the accounting treatment of currency conversions, stablecoin/fiat conversions, prefunding balances, and settlement movements.
- Help reconcile treasury reports with accounting records.
- Support the review of liquidity movements, bank balances and cash positions.
- Ensure treasury-related transactions are accurately recorded in the general ledger.
- Assist in preparing schedules for realized and unrealized FX positions where applicable.
Accounts Payable and Expense Monitoring
- Review vendor invoices and supporting documents before posting.
- Assist with expense classification and cost center allocation.
- Support payment processing documentation and approval workflows.
- Track accrued expenses, prepaid expenses and outstanding payables.
- Monitor recurring expenses and identify unusual cost movements.
- Support vendor account reconciliations.
Financial Analysis and Management Support
- Support variance analysis on revenue, transaction costs, operating expenses, EBITDA and cash flow.
- Analyze trends in transaction volume, transaction value, revenue, cost of sales, gross margin and operating expenses.
- Support profitability analysis by country, corridor, product, partner or customer segment.
- Help identify financial risks, cost-saving opportunities and process improvement areas.
Finance Systems and Data Support
- Assist in maintaining accurate financial data across accounting systems, payment platforms, spreadsheets and reporting tools.
- Support data extraction, cleaning, and reconciliation between finance and operational systems.
- Help improve finance templates, reconciliation files, reporting models and automation processes.
- Ensure proper use of chart of accounts, cost centers, entities, currencies and product codes.
- Support the Financial Controller in improving finance processes and reducing manual reporting gaps.
- Define, maintain, and govern event tracking architecture and taxonomy across web, mobile, CRM, and backend systems
- Ensure consistent and reliable event tracking across all customer touchpoints
- Improve funnel visibility from install through repeat transaction
- Monitor, debug, and reconcile discrepancies between backend transactional data and analytics tools
Requirements
Skills and Experience
- Strong accounting and financial analysis skills
- Good understanding of reconciliations and financial controls
- Strong Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets skills
- Ability to work with large transaction datasets
- Good attention to detail and accuracy
- Understanding of FX, settlement and payment flows is an advantage
- Ability to investigate and resolve financial variances
- Good communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work under pressure and meet reporting deadlines
- Strong documentation and record-keeping discipline
- High integrity and confidentiality
Educational and Professional Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or a related field.
- Minimum of 2–4 years’ experience in finance, accounting, audit, fintech, payments, banking or financial services.
- Professional qualification of ACCA, ICAN.
- Experience in a fintech, cross-border payments, money transfer, banking or financial services company is preferred.
- Experience with accounting software, ERP systems, payment platforms and reconciliation tools is an advantage.
Working Relationships
You will work closely with:
- Financial Controller (direct line)
- Finance Team
- Commercial and Operations Teams
- Marketing & Communications Team
- Compliance Team
- People & Culture Team
Benefits
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation
- Fully remote working
- Unlimited PTO
- Generous parental leave
- The opportunity to build from the ground up, with your impact visible every day
- A bold, ambitious team on a mission to open global markets to Africans everywhere
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