Job Description
Senior Accountant, Revenue & General Ledger
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-Time
Department: Finance
Reports To: Financial Controller
ABOUT RECHAJ
Rechaj is building Africa's largest battery swapping and energy infrastructure network for electric mobility. Through our Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform, we enable commercial tricycle operators to access affordable clean energy while powering an integrated ecosystem of battery assets, financial services, fleet intelligence, and operational technology.
As our business scales across multiple markets and thousands of battery assets, finance plays a critical role in ensuring financial accuracy, regulatory compliance, operational insight, and investor confidence. We are looking for exceptional finance professionals who can build scalable financial processes while partnering closely with technology and operations teams.
OVERVIEW The Senior Accountant, Revenue & General Ledger is responsible for owning the integrity of Rechaj's revenue accounting and general ledger, ensuring all revenue transactions are accurately recognized, recorded, reconciled, and reported in accordance with IFRS and company accounting policies. The role is the primary owner of the monthly financial close process, preparing a complete and fully supported trial balance before submission to the Financial Controller for review.
Beyond core accounting responsibilities, this role serves as Finance's representative on Rechaj's Accounting CRM/ERP implementation, partnering with the Technology team to ensure accounting logic, financial controls, reporting structures, and audit requirements are designed into the platform from the outset. The successful candidate combines strong technical accounting expertise with the ability to translate finance requirements into scalable system functionality.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Revenue Recognition & Financial Reporting
• Record daily battery swap revenue using reconciled operational data received from the Revenue Assurance function in accordance with IFRS 15.
• Recognize and post retrofit revenue, rider financing income, subscription income, and other operational revenue streams accurately.
• Ensure all revenue transactions are correctly classified, coded to the appropriate cost centres, business units, and operational clusters.
• Record and reconcile agent commission expenses against approved commission structures.
• Investigate and resolve variances between Revenue Assurance reports and General Ledger balances before month-end close.
• Escalate material discrepancies and revenue risks to the Financial Controller.
General Ledger Management
• Maintain the integrity, completeness, and accuracy of the General Ledger across all account classifications.
• Prepare and post month-end journals, including accruals, prepayments, provisions, depreciation, reclassifications, and adjustments.
• Ensure every journal entry is adequately supported, documented, and approved.
• Own the month-end close checklist, ensuring every account is reconciled before financial close.
• Prepare monthly trial balances together with supporting schedules and management accounts.
• Prepare meaningful variance analysis for monthly financial reporting.
• Coordinate closely with Accounts Payable and Treasury to ensure all ledger balances reconcile before close.
Balance Sheet & Asset Accounting
• Prepare and maintain supporting schedules for all balance sheet asset accounts, including cash, receivables, rider wallet balances, deposits, and prepayments.
• Maintain the company's fixed asset register covering battery assets, swap stations, retrofit equipment, tools, and operational infrastructure.
• Process asset additions, transfers, disposals, depreciation, and impairments in accordance with IAS 16.
• Coordinate periodic physical verification of company assets with Finance Business Partners and Operations teams.
• Investigate and resolve asset reconciliation differences.
• Prepare audit-ready asset schedules for statutory reporting.
Accounting Policy, Compliance & Audit
• Apply IFRS consistently across all accounting transactions and reporting activities.
• Ensure compliance with IFRS 15, IAS 16, IAS 36, and internal accounting policies.
• Provide accounting guidance to Finance Business Partners and cross-functional teams on transaction classification and reporting.
• Maintain complete audit-ready documentation supporting revenue recognition, reconciliations, journals, and accounting decisions.
