Head of Finance

Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Full Time
Experienced

PalmPay is a pan-African fintech company currently operating in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania and expanding to other markets in this year. We’re reinventing the payments experience by making it easy and reliable for everyone to transfer money, pay bills and shop online.

We are looking for an experienced Finance person who is passionate about our mission of driving financial inclusion in Bangladesh. The Head of Finance will be responsible for managing financial operations, preparing financial statements, conducting financial analysis, overseeing budgeting, and ensuring accurate financial reporting.

Job Description:

  • Ensure accurate and timely daily recordkeeping and accounting systems  of all loan vouchers and assigned expense vouchers.
  • Reconcile and update accounts postings appropriately  
  • Financial report and analysis to advice on management performance 
  • Reported reconciliation issues from cashier and Accountant team. 
  • Liaise with external parties on behalf of the entities managed 
  • Perform other account analysis and reconciliations as may be required and participate in the month-end close process.
  • Finance team management , perform any other duty as may be assigned by Management
  • Responsible for bank accounts transactions (receipts and payments) and provide bank daily report
  • Attend management meeting as delegated by head of department 
  • Present departmental report during management meeting where necessary 
  • Supervise other subordinate of financial transactions posting 
  • Give financial advice on financial matter as well due diligence
  • Tax management and Administration of Managed Entities 
  • Perform Monthly Banks reconciliation of Access bank account investigate and resolve discrepancies, ensure availability of bank reconciliation statement.
  • Ensure all transactions are captured in the financial reporting of the entities management, Account Balance, Variance Report on end of month closing
  • Respond on HQ daily, monthly, half yearly and yearly reports and audits. Provide required documents and evidences (such as daily cash report, copies of bank statement - softcopy and scan bank certified copy, scan bank certified half year bank statements, bank reconciliation tables, etc.)
  • Liaising with the Tax authorities on Tax Audit and Tax Correspondence 
  • Monthly statutory remittances (WHT, VAT, etc.) and other business financial commitments.
  • Prepare journal voucher for direct debit on the bank statement (debits other than regular expense with voucher e.g. bank charges) and direct credit on the bank statement (credit other than revenue
  • Advise the company on implications of existing and new government monetary 
  • Provide professional advise for other teams and connect with Central Bank

Qualification

  • Master's degree or above
  • At least 4 years accounting advisory management experience in any of PWC/DTT/KPMG/EY 
  • Well-known Fintech finance experience, overall operation of general corporate finance
  • ACCA
Job Location:

Banani, Dhaka

 
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