Treasury Accountant (FinTech/Stablecoins)

Our client is the largest and first licensed on/off-ramp platform for stablecoins in Africa. They are dedicated to offering innovative solutions in the African stablecoins space. They are committed to making stablecoins accessible and understandable for everyone, providing their customers with secure and user-friendly platforms for their financial transactions.

Role Overview

This role is significant because of the sensitivity of information being dealt with as well as the level of attention to detail required for this role. The reconciliation of Bank accounts and facilitation of payments is a part of the treasury function; and is one that is performed to ensure the company's financial health. This is done by ensuring the completion of fast and accurate payments for the Treasury and Commercial teams. The Treasury Accountant is responsible for providing efficient and effective high-quality banking and payment services, which requires you to carefully review each transaction to ensure that it meets all the company's requirements. This requires excellent attention to detail. It also requires continued communication with our partners as well as following up on outstanding, pending, or disputed transactions. This exciting and challenging position involves extensive collaboration with the Commercial and Finance teams as well as other key stakeholders in the business.

Job Type: Full Time | Remote

Location: Kenya

Requirements

• 3+ years experience in payments review and processing, with good attention to detail.
• 3+ years experience in basic accounting and allocation of GL codes.
• 3+ years experience in working with foreign currencies.
• Experience with Oracle’s NetSuite (preferable).
• Understanding of processing payments in local and foreign currencies.
• Basic working knowledge in the use of Google sheets and MS Excel.
• Basic knowledge and understanding of the workings of virtual assets.
• Preferably available immediately.

Responsibilities 

Duties include, but not limited to

• Download bank statements from various Group banking portals.
• Reconciliation of Bank statements.
• Facilitate the timely and accurate processing of fiat currency payments at the request of the Commercial team.
• Being on standby to process fiat payments after standard working hours.
• Assist the Commercial team in managing expectations regarding the timely processing of payments.
• Providing feedback on inefficient payment processes.
• Assist the Treasury function with liquidity management.
• Manage transactional queries with service providers on an ongoing ad hoc basis.

General duties:

• Gathering information from different sources by using effective research tools.
• Adapting to a changing work environment.
• Continuous maintenance and improvement of templates and standard operating procedures.