About the role
Who we are
Moniepoint is Africa's all-in-one financial ecosystem, empowering businesses and their customers with seamless payment, banking, credit, and management tools. In 2023, we processed $182 billion and are Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer.
Job Purpose
Sits between Finance and the Product & Technology platform team, as products are built, ensuring every new product, feature, or pricing change is correctly designed from an accounting and control standpoint before it ships. Owns the thread from customer journey to financial reporting: how a product event is captured, how it maps to the chart of accounts, and how it lands in the Group's financial statements.
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Responsibilities:
- Act as the standing technical accounting partner to Product and Engineering for all new products, features, and pricing changes
- Write technical accounting memos and position papers for new or changed products (revenue recognition under IFRS 15, financial instrument classification under IFRS 9, fee vs. interest income treatment, etc.)
- Design, build, and maintain the chart of accounts for new and existing products, ensuring consistency across entities
- Map each stage of the customer journey (onboarding, transaction, settlement, fee, reversal, write-off) to the correct GL treatment, end to end
- Review product and engineering specs pre-launch to flag accounting and control gaps before they reach production
- Own the reconciliation between product/transaction system data and the general ledger, and resolve breaks at source