Senior Accountant

At Pula, we are radically restructuring agricultural insurance, using technology to insure the previously unbanked, uninsured, untapped market of 1.5 billion smallholders worldwide. We work in eight countries across Africa and Asia, and in 2017 alone, we facilitated crop and livestock insurance cover to 611,000 farmers in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Malawi. We are recruiting to fill the following position below:

Senior Accountant

Role Purpose

• The Senior Accountant will be responsible for supporting the organisation’s financial reporting, revenue accounting, project financial management, investor reporting, reconciliations, financial controls, and audit requirements across multiple entities and jurisdictions.

• The role will work closely with Finance, Project, Commercial, Operations, Investment, and other teams to ensure accurate financial information, effective financial controls, timely reporting, and strong finance business partnering.

Key Responsibilities

Revenue & Receivables

• Manage revenue accounting and ensure revenue is accurately recognised in the appropriate accounting periods.

• Maintain revenue schedules and perform revenue reconciliations.

• Monitor invoicing, collections, receivables, and outstanding balances.

• Work with commercial and project teams to resolve billing and collection issues.

• Monitor revenue performance against budgets, milestones, forecasts, and contractual expectations.

• Maintain appropriate supporting documentation and reconciliations for all bad debt provisions and write-offs.

• Review contracts for potential deals to ensure revenue, tax requirements, billing terms, and project milestones are clearly defined and adequately documented to support accurate revenue recognition and external audit requirements.

Project Finance & Budget Management

• Set up new projects in the finance/ERP system, including project codes, budgets, cost centres, and relevant financial parameters.

• Monitor project budgets against actual expenditure and revenue.

• Prepare regular Budget vs Actual (BVA) reports and variance analysis.

• Work with project teams to explain significant variances and identify potential cost overruns.

• Support project forecasting, including projected costs, revenue, and project completion positions.

• Ensure project costs are correctly coded, allocated, and supported.

• Support project close-out and final financial reconciliations.

Investor Reporting & Business Partnering

• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual investor reporting in line with agreed requirements.

• Maintain investor reconciliations, schedules, and supporting documentation.

• Coordinate with internal teams to obtain information required for investor reporting.

• Respond to investor financial queries and ensure timely resolution of reporting issues.

• Maintain strong finance business partnerships with investors and relevant stakeholders.

• Support preparation of ad hoc investor analysis and financial information requests.

Financial Reporting & Reconciliations

• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes.

• Prepare and review receivables, intercompany, revenue, project, investor, and balance sheet reconciliations.

• Prepare and post appropriate month-end journals, including Revenue, accruals, prepayments, provisions, and reclassifications.

• Investigate and clear aged or unexplained reconciling items.

• Support management reporting, financial analysis, and forecasting.

Finance Systems & Workflows

• Manage project creation and other finance master data within the ERP/accounting system.

• Manage finance approval workflows and ensure transactions follow the appropriate approval processes.

• Support onboarding of new finance users and coordinate system access and permissions.

• Resolve system, workflow, and accounting process issues in collaboration with Finance and IT.

• Support finance system improvements, automation, and process optimization.

• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce manual processes.

Audit, Controls & Compliance

• Support external, statutory, internal, tax, investor, and other audits across multiple jurisdictions.

• Prepare audit schedules, reconciliations, and supporting documentation.

• Coordinate responses to audit queries and track outstanding requests.