Head, Product Control & Accounting

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Moniepoint Incorporated is hiring a Head, Product Control & Accounting to own the end-to-end thread from customer journey to financial reporting across its payments and banking platform. The role sits between Finance and Product & Technology, ensuring new products, features, and pricing changes are correctly designed from an accounting and control standpoint before launch. Key focus areas include chart of accounts design, IFRS-based technical accounting, reconciliations, and control documentation.

• Senior finance role bridging Product, Engineering and Finance from design through to financial reporting
• Owns chart of accounts design, reconciliations and technical accounting memos for new products
• Requires ACA/ACCA with 8+ years post-qualification experience, ideally including Big 4 background
• Strong IFRS 15 and IFRS 9 knowledge plus payments, fintech or banking experience preferred
• Focus on building controls and documentation, not just reviewing accounting after launch

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Head, Product Control & Accounting at Moniepoint Incorporated ⏲ Sep 2, 2026, 4:01 AM ⋕ View all Banking & Financial Services jobs Moniepoint Incorporated is a global business payments and banking platform and recently became QED Investors’ first investment in Africa. We are the partner of choice for over 600,000 businesses of all sizes, powering the dreams of SMBs and providing them with equal access to the tools they need to grow and scale. We are recruiting to fill the position below: Job Title: Head, Product Control & Accounting Location : Nigeria Job Purpose Owns the thread from customer journey to financial reporting: how a product event is captured, how it maps to the chart of accounts, and how it lands in the Group's financial statements. Sits between Finance and the Product & Technology platform team as products are built, ensuring every new product, feature, or pricing change is correctly designed from an accounting and control standpoint before it ships. Responsibilities: Design controls around new product flows (maker-checker, reconciliation, exception handling) and document them to audit standard Design, build, and maintain the chart of accounts for new and existing products, ensuring consistency across entities Map each stage of the customer journey (onboarding, transaction, settlement, fee, reversal, write-off) to the correct GL treatment, end to end Review product and engineering specs pre-launch to flag accounting and control gaps before they reach production Write technical accounting memos and position papers for new or changed products (revenue recognition under IFRS 15, financial instrument classification under IFRS 9, fee vs. interest income treatment, etc.) Partner with Financial Control, Internal Audit, and external auditors on product-related technical accounting queries Maintain a living library of accounting treatment documentation per product, kept current as products evolve Act as the standing technical accounting partner to Product and Engineering for all new products, features, and pricing changes Own the reconciliation between product/transaction system data and the general ledger, and resolve breaks at source Candidate requirements: Comfortable reading product specs and talking directly to engineers and product managers, not only to finance colleagues Experience: translating a product or system design into accounting treatment and GL structure, not just reviewing after the fact Strong working knowledge of IFRS 15 (revenue), IFRS 9 (financial instruments), and IFRS more broadly ACA / ACCA (or equivalent) with 8+ years post-qualification experience, including Big 4 technical accounting or audit background Preferred Qualifications: Prior experience: designing or restructuring a chart of accounts for a multi-product platform Exposure to regulatory reporting requirements: tied to product design (CBN, FCA, CBK or equivalent) Experience: in payments, fintech, or banking, ideally with exposure to how transaction/ledger systems are built Experience: working inside or alongside an agile product/engineering team About You: You can sit in a product spec review and immediately see where the accounting will break, and say so before launch, not after You default to documenting the treatment properly rather than leaving it as tribal knowledge You care as much about the control design as the accounting answer. A technically correct treatment with no control around it isn't good enough You're comfortable owning a chart of accounts as a living system, not a static reference document You translate fluently between accountants and engineers without dumbing either side down What success looks like: Chart of accounts stays clean and consistent as new products launch, with no post-hoc reclassification projects Product and Engineering see Finance as a design partner, not a late-stage blocker Product/transaction data reconciles to the GL within agreed tolerances, with breaks resolved at source, not papered over monthly No product ships without a documented, signed-off accounting treatment and GL mapping Audit findings related to product accounting or control design trend toward zero What to expect in the hiring process Hiring Manager Interview A Panel interview with existing Finance Leads A preliminary phone call with one of our recruiters. A behavioural and technical interview with a member of the Executive team. How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online View all Jobs in Nigeria