Finance Associate Full Time

About the role
As a Finance Associate, you will be ultimately responsible for supporting all tactical and operational duties of the accounting function. This includes the preparation of accounting schedules, management reporting, statutory reporting , internal and external stakeholder management.

In the first few months you’ll

• Understand the company’s dynamics on how finances are managed and moved around
• Begin to interface with clients and vendors on financial matters
• Understand how the departments interface on money matters
• Understand the various regulatory bodies that engage our company
• Understand the financial software we use for day-to-day operations

Responsibilities

• Support the Finance Manager in budget preparation, annual reports, audits, etc
• Participate in month-end closing activities like generating reports, cut off activities on specific workdays (monthly, quarterly, annually)
• Generate, maintain & update receivable aging reports and follow up on invoices
• Carry-out monthly account reconciliation & maintain company’s assets register
• Apply the principles of the finance manuals and update to the manuals subject to the approval of the Finance Manager
• Be involved in the development and update of Finance SOPs

• Timely & Accurate Delivery of tasks
• Be involved in the engagement of internal stakeholders as required to fulfil responsibilities.
• Assist in the development and reporting of key performance metrics to help drive business productivity.
• Ensure timely preparation and transmission of regulatory filings and other external reports
• Be involved in the preparation of standard management reports and any other reports as may be required by management from time to time.
• Ensure the daily reconciliation for all payment processors of all products using source data.
• Ensure accuracy of all automated sources of data via frequent checks and reconciliations

Requirements

• B.Sc in Accounting, Finance or relevant field
• 1-3 years experience in finance or similar role
• Proficiency in the use of Google Workspace
• Background knowledge of insurance broker financial system operation
• Good knowledge of Accounting Software (Sage, Quickbooks, Microsoft Dynamics, etc)
• Intermediate report writing skills

Bonus points if you

• Have certifications like ICAN
• Have worked in insurance before

Key details

This is a permanent position and reports to the Finance Manager & CEO

Major benefits:

• Health insurance
• 14 day vacation per year

About Curacel
Our Mission

Our mission is to make it easy and pleasant to get & use risk protection in emerging markets.

More than 3 billion people all over the world are not protected from the risks they face in their daily life. These people try to build a successful life for themselves and their families, but any of those risks can set them back by years.

Our Product

• We are building the rails to make insurance work for the next billion people in emerging markets
• Curacel creates APIs that enable insurers to connect with digital distribution channels and to administer their claims cost effectively.

Our products include:

• Grow (DistributionAPI), Add insurance to any product
• Collection(ClaimsAPI), Process insurance claims faster
• Detection (FraudAPI), Detect fraud in claims process

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