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Accounting Manager

Confidential Company
📍 Dakar 🇸🇳CDI🗓️ 4 days ago

Job Description

Dakar
CDI

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Description Position Summary Ria Senegal is seeking a Finance Manager to lead the local finance function for a six month maternity cover contract. The position covers both the standard remittance (money transfer operator) business and its newly launching mobile wallet product. The role owns day-to-day accounting, tax and regulatory compliance, monthly reporting, and financial forecasting, and will play a key part in building out finance processes and controls to support the mobile wallet launch. Key Responsibilities Monthly Close & Accounting

  • Manage the full monthly close process for both the standard MTO operation and the mobile wallet entity/business line
  • Prepare and review journal entries, accruals, and general ledger reconciliations
  • Maintain the fixed asset register and intercompany reconciliations with Group/Regional entities
  • Prepare monthly management accounts (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow) for local and regional review Tax & VAT

Prepare and file monthly VAT returns in line with Senegalese/UEMOA tax requirements

  • Manage corporate income tax compliance, withholding tax, and other statutory filings
  • Liaise with local tax authorities (DGID) and external tax advisors on queries, audits, and assessments
  • Monitor changes in Senegalese tax law and BCEAO/UEMOA regulations affecting the MTO and mobile wallet businesses Forecasting & FP&A
  • Prepare monthly and rolling forecasts, and support the annual budget process
  • Provide variance analysis (actual vs. budget/forecast) with commentary for regional finance and local management
  • Model financial impact of new corridors, agent network changes, and mobile wallet volume growth Regulatory & Compliance
  • Support maintenance of the MTO licence and any e-money/mobile wallet licence with BCEAO
  • Ensure compliance with local company law, statutory reporting, and audit requirements (annual financial statements)
  • Coordinate with external auditors for annual audit and statutory filings
  • Support AML/CFT and FIC-type compliance reporting as required for remittance and mobile wallet flows
  • Ensure safeguarding/trust account requirements for mobile wallet float are properly accounted for and reconciled Treasury & FX
  • Monitor cash positions and liquidity across MTO and mobile wallet float/trust accounts Team & Stakeholder Management
  • Manage and develop local finance team members
  • Act as the primary finance point of

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