Associate, Finance Operations

• Lead your clients day to day: be the client's main contact at CA, work through issues with their finance team each week, answer every message within one working day, and raise problems before the client has to ask.
  
• Review the books and direct corrections: review the Analysts' or the client's team's bookkeeping, reconciliations, payroll and tax returns in detail, including every reconciliation and every payment that needs a closer look, such as payments to owners, new suppliers, changed bank details, manual journals and cash withdrawals. Send back what is wrong with clear corrections.
  
• Check the financial controls: confirm that approvals, separation of duties and the client's own checks are working as they should, and raise any weakness and follow it through until it is fixed.
  
• Close the month: own each client's close, so every account is reconciled to evidence, the month is complete and in the right period, and the close happens on the client's timetable.
  
• Prepare the management reporting: prepare the management accounts, the comparison with budget and the factual reasons behind each movement, and, for clients where we keep the books, write a one-page summary of the month for the Supervisor's review.
  
• Prepare budgets, cash forecasts and analysis: update each client's 13-week cash forecast, build the annual budget with the client, and prepare the figures and analysis for decisions the client is facing
  
• Support project and advisory work: on reviews of a client's finance function, improvement projects and funding or investment work, gather the information, prepare the figures, check the financial models, and lead small, defined projects as you develop.
  
• Develop the Analysts: when you send work back, show what was wrong and why, so they get it right themselves next time.
  
• Keep your clients on schedule: you lead around three clients where we provide ongoing financial management, or around seven where we keep the books, so you plan your month across all of them and flag early if a deadline is at risk.
  

Requirements

• Around three to five years of hands-on accounting experience, including month-end close, reconciliations, payroll and tax. Experience reviewing other people's work is an advantage. Strong candidates outside this range are welcome where their work shows the standard.
  
• Professional exams: fully qualified ICAN, ACA or ACCA members are preferred. At minimum, you have completed ICAN Skills or ACCA Applied Skills and have no more than two papers left to qualify.
  
• Experience in a multi-client environment, such as an accounting, audit, or outsourcing firm, handling several clients' accounts at the same time, is strongly preferred.
  
• Experience preparing management accounts and explaining what drives each movement, not only presenting the figures, and experience with budgets or cash forecasts.
  
• An understanding of financial controls: what good approval and review look like in a finance team, and how to spot when they are not working.
  
• A working knowledge of PAYE, VAT, withholding tax, and company income tax under the Nigeria Tax Act 2025, strong Excel skills, and solid working knowledge of accounting software. Zoho Books experience is an advantage.
  
• Careful in your own work and quick to notice when something in someone else's work is not right, even when it looks right on the surface. • Clear, professional communication with clients' finance teams and owners, the ability to manage several clients' deadlines without being chased, and feedback that makes a colleague's work better.
  
• You already live in or around Abuja, as we do not support relocation, and have your own working laptop and smartphone, as CA staff work on their own devices inside CA's
  

Benefits

• Hybrid working, normally two days a week in our Abuja office. Occasional additional attendance may be needed for meetings, assessments and agreed business needs.
  
• HMO health coverage and paid annual leave.
  
• Work beyond the monthly cycle, on reviews of finance functions, improvement projects and funding and investment work, across several businesses in different sectors, which builds your judgement faster than working on one company's books.