Unified Payment Services Limitedis Nigeria’s premier Payments & Financial Technology company that operates as a shared infrastructure for the banking community in Nigeria and Payments Service Provider within and outside Nigeria, with a vision to be the most preferred e-payment service provider in Africa.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Head, Expenditure and Payables
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Description
- To ensure accurate and timely recording of all financial transactions in line with company policies, rules and guidelines as well as regulatory standards.
- To ensure that management reports are produced accurately and timely.
- To produce such reports as may be requested my management for the purpose of decision making.
- To supervise designated staff.
Duties& Responsibilities
- Payroll: Ensure that staff salary is paid promptly.
- Ensure remittance of staff pension.
- Inventory Management: To ensure accuracy, completeness and integrity of stock records and balances including Airtime Vending.
- GL Schedules: Ensure that GLs are reviewed and proofed, while errors are detected and corrected promptly.
- GL expense proofing: Ensure that all transactions posted into each expense account and their project codes (if any) belong to such accounts and that there are no duplications.
- Ensure that Expense report is prepared and sent to the required HODs monthly.
- Ensure collection of WHT Credit Notes due to Unified Payments.
- Ensure that Fixed Asset Register is correctly updated and agreed to GL Records.
- Management Accounts: Ensure that Management obtains consistently; timely, accurate and relevant financial information for decision making and planning purposes.
- Staff and Vendor Payments: Ensure that all approved staff and vendor payments or internal requests are effected within agreed timelines.
- Ensure that USD Merchants are settled weekly and in line with terms of agreement with them.
- Staff Loans Administration: Ensure staff loans repayment is in line with Management approvals.
- Ensure Tax Remittances comply with statutory requirements and avoid penalties.
- Delegated tasks: Performing any other tasks as may be assigned from time to time.
Job Requirements
- Education: First Degree in Accounting or any numerate subject.
- Professional membership of ICAN / CIMA / ACCA or similar recognized professional accounting bodies.
- Experience: 7 years and above post NYSC.
- Knowledge Excellent knowledge of cost and financial accounting principles, practices and procedures.
- Knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards Knowledge of supervisory practices and principles.
- Knowledge of Card Payment industry.
Skill / Competencies:
- Demonstrate ability to cope with pressure and meet deadlines.
- High degree of accuracy.
- Deductive reasoning abilities and eye for details.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Advanced Excel user.
Application Closing Date
31st July, 2025.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: opeoluwa.oluyemi@up-ng.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.