Financial Controller
• Salary: Remuneration based on experience
• Location: Dakar
• Start Date: ASAP
• Job Type: Full time contract (1 year) renewable
• Team: Finance
• www.fluidfinance.co

About FLUID
FLUID is a technology company helping banks provide loans and savings products to smallholder farmers in Senegal & Ghana. Our technology enables farmers to access digital financial identities, cashless credits and educational content to increase crop yield and financial literacy. FLUID’s mission is to make financial services accessible to the 500 million smallholder farmers worldwide.
What You’ll Do
You will be the custodian of all Fluid’s financial accounts (ledgers, balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement), and all relevant disclosures or information for regulatory reporting, financial reporting and financial analysis purposes. This role involves strict compliance with financial reporting standards, income tax laws and other regulatory frameworks.


Responsibilities
Finance and Accounting
• General accounting tasks, including reconciling and maintaining balance sheet accounts and general ledger operations, preparing journal entries, preparing monthly closing and financial reports, preparing account/bank reconciliations;
• Work with the CEO and management team on budget planning and financial analysis;
• Perform finance analysis, reporting and management tasks
• Prepare invoices, payments, payroll, bank transfers and execute bank transactions
• Review financial paperwork and procedures, provide recommendations and make necessary changes;
• Ensure all expenses are within assigned budgets and verify the completeness of all required supporting documentation for all payments vouchers
• Ensure account receivables and payables activities are performed accurately and timely;
• Settle amounts due, or recover outstanding receivables;
• Identify and resolve invoicing issues, accounting discrepancies and other financial related issues;
• Prepare and coordinate financial audits
• Ensure proper and complete documentation and filing for easy retrieval of all accounting related documents;
• Identify and provide feedback and suggestions to management related to improvements to FLUID’s policies, procedures, processes and financial systems and related programs;

Who you Are
You are a diligent accounting and finance professional, passionate about helping people. You are flexible, reliable, creative, responsive, able to take initiative, open to learning. You can work and relate with people from all backgrounds of life.You are able to work within systems and procedures, work effectively in a small team environment involving the sharing of information and at times sharing workloads. In addition, you can analyse and integrate potentially conflicting numerical, verbal and other data from a number of sources. You are disciplined and pay high attention to details (bonus: you can demonstrate this in your CV by writing your name in orange). and are able to work independently and multi-task and meet deadlines.


Minimum Requirements
• Bachelors in Accounting/Finance with minimum 4 years work experience
• Professional Qualifications. CA or partly qualified ( ACCA/ICAG)
• Ability to prepare and maintain the full set of accounts
• Knowledge and hands on experience with Odoo, Wave or other Accounting Software
• Proficient in English
• Willing to Travel within West Africa (Ghana)
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel
• Desirable
• Background in Banking and/or Agriculture
• Previous experience in tech startup, NGO or financial institution


Why Should You Work at FLUID?
Working at FLUID will give you the unique opportunity to directly change the lives of some of the most financially excluded people on Earth, smallholder farmers. To accomplish this vision, we will invest in your career development by providing mentorship, daily access to senior finance executives in Ghana and a personal development plan. The job will also be fun! You will get to travel throughout Ghana and create impact everywhere you go.