About this role
About the Role Moniepoint is seeking a Technical Accounting Partner for Product & Engineering to ensure new products, features, and pricing changes are designed from an accounting and control standpoint before launch. This role sits between Finance and the Product & Technology teams, owning end-to-end mapping from customer events to the General Ledger and financial statements. What You'll Do
- Act as the standing technical accounting partner to Product and Engineering for all new products, features, and pricing changes
- 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.)
- 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
- Own the reconciliation between product/transaction system data and the general ledger, and resolve breaks at source
- Design controls around new product flows (maker-checker, reconciliation, exception handling) and document them to audit standard
- Maintain a living library of accounting treatment documentation per product, kept current as products evolve
- Partner with Financial Control, Internal Audit, and external auditors on product-related technical accounting queries What We're Looking For
- ACA/ACCA (or equivalent) with 8+ years post-qualification experience, including Big 4 technical accounting or audit background
- Strong working knowledge of IFRS 15 (revenue), IFRS 9 (financial instruments), and IFRS more broadly
- Experience translating a product or system design into accounting treatment and GL structure, not just reviewing after the fact
- Comfortable reading product specs and talking directly to engineers and product managers, not only to finance colleagues
- Experience in payments, fintech, or banking, ideally with exposure to how transaction/ledger systems are built
- 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 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 translate fluently between accountants and engineers without dumbing either side down
- You default to documenting the treatment properly rather than leaving it as tribal knowledge
- You're comfortable owning a chart of accounts as a living system, not a static reference document
- 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 Nice to Have
- Experience in payments, fintech, or banking, ideally with exposure to how transaction/ledger systems are built
- 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 working inside or alongside an agile product/engineering team