Finance · PSC-FIN-01

Finance Manager

Lilongwe, Malawi Reports to Director MWK 1,200,000 – 1,500,000 / month

Reporting to the Director, you own the numbers: accounting, treasury, trust account reconciliation, and every regulatory financial filing the RBM pilot requires. This is a hands-on build role, you're setting up month-end close, reconciliation, and reporting processes from scratch.

What success looks like

Reconcile the trust account against the ledger daily, with zero unresolved discrepancies aged past 48 hours
Close monthly management accounts within 5 working days of month-end
File every RBM and statutory return on time and error-free, no late submissions
Maintain a rolling cash-flow forecast for treasury and operating needs, accurate enough that Payscan is never caught short
Reconcile transactions against bank settlement records daily, with variances resolved within days, not weeks
Close every audit or regulatory finding within its agreed remediation deadline, with no repeat findings the following cycle
Catch and close fee and revenue leakage across the platform, every transaction that should generate a Payscan fee, does

What you'll do

Own accounting, bookkeeping, and financial reporting
Manage treasury and reconcile trust accounts against the ledger daily
Prepare MRA tax filings and RBM prudential/financial reporting for the pilot
Own budgeting, cash-flow forecasting, and vendor payments
Prepare and execute settlement batches for NatSwitch and merchant payouts
Own revenue assurance: audit transaction and settlement data for fee leakage and close the gaps
Report financial performance to the team

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field, actively pursuing or well progressed in ACCA, CIMA, or an equivalent professional qualification
5+ years in finance or accounting, including real time in a mobile money operator, payment system provider, or bank finance function
Hands-on experience reconciling trust accounts against a live, high-volume transaction ledger
Direct experience preparing and submitting statutory or regulatory financial returns to a central bank or payments regulator
Comfortable building month-end close, reconciliation, and regulatory reporting processes from scratch

Nice to have

Working knowledge of IFRS (including IFRS for SMEs) alongside AML/KYC-linked financial controls specific to e-money issuers
National payments switch settlement experience
Experience directly engaging with a central bank or financial regulator on regulatory matters

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