Head, Financial Control
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Summary
- Primarily responsible for overseeing and ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and compliance of financial reporting, implementing and maintaining effective financial controls, and supporting strategic decision-making for the Bank.
- Additionally, the Head of Financial Control is also required to manage funds and other financial activities of the bank and make financial information available to users.
Principal Duties and Responsibilties
- Preparation of financial statements & reports
- Reviewing of Bank reconciliation statements; all outstanding issues to be trashed out
- Reviewing of daily postings into the General Ledger
- Creation of General ledgers for new transactions and Banks.
- Timely rendition of statutory returns and reports to the Bank’s regulators (CBN, NDIC, CAC etc.)
- Budget preparation and allocation
- Expense monitoring & control
- Liaising with statutory bodies and government agencies such as (CBN, NDIC, LIRS, FIRS, etc.)
- Liaising with compensation officer, internal control & external auditors
- Liaising with Banks of finance related issues
- Attends to various meetings such as: Management meetings, Credit review,
- Credit Appraisal and general purpose meetings.
- Computation of depreciation and amortization
- Preparation of salary journal and posting
- Reconciliation of bank books and records: prepayment, sundry creditors, sundry customers, unpaid salary etc.
- Maintenance and updating of fixed assets register and schedule.
- Other responsibilities as may be assigned by the Managing Director.
Qualifications, Experience, Skills and Competencies
- Minimum of an HND/B.Sc. in Accounting/Accountancy, Finance or its equivalent. Master’s degree will be an added advantage.
- Professional membership is required - ACA/ACCA, and MCIB
- 10 – 15 years of experience in the financial sector, preferably in Microfinance or Commercial Banking
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent teamwork skills
- Financial Intelligence
- Report Generation
- Good Financial Decision
- Statutory Reporting
- Management Accounting
- Excellent use of MS Office packages (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.)
- Leadership
- Analytical Thinking
- Detail-Oriented
- Communication
- Team Spirit
Application Closing Date
31st August, 2026.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CVs to: recruitment@moneyfieldmfb.com using the job title as the subject of the mail.