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Career Opportunity: Head, Product Control & Accounting at Moniepoint (Nairobi, Kenya)

 

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Moniepoint is hiring a full-time Head, Product Control & Accounting position based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Position Overview

  • Job Title: Head, Product Control & Accounting
  • Employer: Moniepoint
  • Location: Nairobi, Kenya
  • Salary: Competitive salary
  • Posted Date: 7 Sep 2026
  • Application Deadline: 7 Oct 2026

Job Purpose

This role 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. It 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.

Key Responsibilities

  • 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.

Candidate Requirements & Qualifications

  • Certification & Experience: ACA / ACCA (or equivalent) with 8+ years post-qualification experience, including Big 4 technical accounting or audit background.
  • Technical Knowledge: Strong working knowledge of IFRS 15 (revenue), IFRS 9 (financial instruments), and IFRS more broadly.
  • Core Competencies: Experience translating a product or system design into accounting treatment and GL structure, comfortable reading product specs and talking directly to engineers and product managers.
  • Preferred Background: Experience in payments, fintech, or banking; 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); and experience working inside or alongside an agile product/engineering team.

How to Apply

Qualified candidates who meet the requirements can apply online directly through the official Moniepoint recruitment portal:

👉 Click Here to Apply via Moniepoint Careers Portal

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