About Cellulant:
Cellulant is Africa’s leading payments company, providing seamless, secure and innovative solutions that empower businesses, banks, and global brands to thrive in a fast-changing global economy.
With a presence in over 24 countries and 200+ payment methods across cards, bank transfer and mobile money, our single API payment platform, Tingg, simplifies collections, disbursements, and reconciliations. It processes over 1 million transactions daily for market leaders in various sectors, such as Airlines, Telecoms, E-commerce, Ride-Hailing, Retail, and Remittances. By simplifying how people pay and get paid, we drive trust, commerce and scale – and connect companies to their ambitions.
Our Story:
Across Africa, payments are more than transactions. They are gateways to prosperity, connecting people, businesses and communities to opportunities and growth.
From enabling a logistics company in Lusaka to pay suppliers across borders, to enabling a hospitality brand in Lagos to scale effortlessly, to supporting an airline in Nairobi to reconcile payments from multiple platforms, Cellulant is the bridge that makes it all possible.
Through trusted technology and customer-centric innovation, we build connections that inspire progress, strengthen economies and transform payments into a tool for progress.
Since our founding in 2003, we've continuously adapted and grown, leveraging our experiences to simplify payments for businesses. We are driven by an unshakable belief that seamless people-centred payments are the key to unlocking prosperity.
Today, Cellulant powers online and offline payment processing, allowing businesses to collect payments, send payouts, and accelerate business growth.
Our Mission:
To deliver seamless, secure and innovative payment solutions for businesses.
Our Vision:
To create a connected world where businesses move money as easily as they share ideas.
Role Summary:
You will lead the configuration, optimization, and maintenance of Oracle NetSuite, ensuring it meets the needs of Cellulant’s finance, accounting, and business operations. This role requires a deep understanding of NetSuite capabilities and financial processes, with a particular focus on multi-currency, multi-subsidiary operations in the payments industry.
You will work with various teams to automate processes, enhance reporting, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards.
Key Relationships:
- Finance Department.
- Data Warehouse Engineering.
- Business Leaders.
- Additional Stakeholders: Commercial, Regulator and Customer Support Teams.
What you'll do:
System Architecture & Optimisation
- Lead the configuration, maintenance, and enhancement of Oracle NetSuite, ensuring alignment with Cellulant’s business needs and industry standards.
- Design and govern the master data structure in NetSuite (e.g., customers, Items, GL), ensuring global consistency and alignment with reporting strategy.
- Coordinate the work of NetSuite third party vendors to ensure their delivery meets expected standards.
- Integrate NetSuite and other key business applications, including the Oracle Data Warehouse and the Treasury Management System to ensure seamless data exchange.
Revenue Engineering
- Lead the end-to-end Revenue Engineering Process, encompassing billing information mapping, data extraction from the Data Warehouse, and developing the revenue computation model.
- Ensure accuracy and auditability of daily revenue through the implementation of automated validation and reconciliation checks.
Financial Data Integrity & Process Automation
- Implement strong system controls with high standards for data accuracy and reporting consistency.
- Design and implement custom workflows, reports, dashboards, and automations to improve efficiency across finance, accounting, sales, financial reporting, and compliance processes.
- Improve financial data accuracy and reporting by refining NetSuite configurations and analytics capabilities that identify and mitigate posting errors
- Automate key finance functions, including bank reconciliations, revenue recognition, intercompany transactions, and expense management.
Governance, Audit, and User Support
- Manage user roles, permissions, and security settings, ensuring compliance with data protection and internal security policies.
- Establish and maintain comprehensive documentation for all designs, solution implementations, and key process workflows (functional and technical) to ensure knowledge transfer and audit readiness.
- Provide high-level support for audit and compliance processes by extracting required NetSuite data or developing required views.
- Conduct advanced training sessions for finance and business users, developing user guides and best practices documentation to improve adoption and reduce system errors.
- Provide technical support and troubleshooting for NetSuite-related issues, ensuring system reliability and performance.
What we are looking for:
- 5+ years of hands-on experience as a NetSuite Administrator or ERP Engineer, with deep expertise across financial modules (GL, AP, AR, Revenue Recognition, Billing, P2P).
- NetSuite Administrator Certification.
- Deep functional and technical expertise in NetSuite ERP, with demonstrated experience developing and customising SuiteScript 2.0, SuiteFlow, SuiteAnalytics, and API integrations.
- Strong knowledge of finance and accounting principles within a complex multi-currency, multi-subsidiary environment.
- Proven experience integrating with, querying and extracting data from large-scale data platforms e.g., Oracle Database/Data Warehouse using SQL/Oracle SQL to support finance teams.
- Knowledge of financial compliance across multiple jurisdictions.
- Experience in the payments industry with knowledge of international payment systems and regulatory requirements.
- Experience working with Oracle Database.
- Experience with data modeling principles to optimize data structures for import to NetSuite.
- Experience with RESTful APIs and web services for complex integrations.
Key Skills:
- Strong Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills- Ability to diagnose complex system issues and implement effective solutions.
- Proactive & Solution-Oriented Mindset- Takes initiative to identify system improvements and enhance workflows well as Continuously seeks to optimize NetSuite usage to increase efficiency across teams.
- High Level of Accountability & Ownership- Demonstrates ownership of system performance, ensuring minimal downtime and high usability.
- Strong Communication & Stakeholder Management- Able to explain technical concepts in simple terms to non-technical users.
- Adaptability & Willingness to Learn- Stays up to date with NetSuite advancements, industry trends, and best practices.
- Attention to Detail.
- Integrity & Confidentiality- Handles sensitive financial and business data with discretion and professionalism.
- Collaboration & Teamwork- Works effectively with cross-functional teams.
Why Work for Us?
At Cellulant, we are more than a payments company: we are bridge-builders. We believe that by simplifying the way people pay and get paid, we are connecting companies to their ambitions, people to opportunities, and Africa to the global economy. Our work goes beyond payments—it’s about what people, businesses, and communities can do when the movement of money becomes more dependable, seamless, and secure.
Some exciting things about us...
- We have an extensive footprint: We have an office presence in 10 countries, and our products serve 24 countries across Africa, with a global workforce of about 300 employees.
- We believe innovation is at the heart of Fintech: Thousands of market leaders and top enterprises trust our technology to power their payments. Our customers are in various sectors, including financial services, travel and hospitality, telecom, e-commerce, remittance companies, SaaS, and the gig economy.
- We support a diverse and inclusive workforce: We focus on the growth and development of our employees through well-developed, individualised career paths, ensuring you reach your full potential in a supportive and delivery-oriented environment.
- We put our employees first: At Cellulant, your contribution is rewarded competitively. We use clear career levels and role titles, and benchmark our base pay against data and a well-established internal process. Your actual salary will reflect your experience, skills, impact and the scope of the role, as well as our business needs and prevailing market conditions. We also offer generous personal time off, and medical and life insurance benefits (markets permitting).
- We seek collaborative builders: At Cellulant, we believe that great ideas happen when we come together. Therefore, we nurture a collaborative work environment that challenges, engages, and empowers each person to contribute to the growth and success of the business.
- We solve Africa's digital economy: We’re solving payment challenges on the continent to create opportunities and accelerate economic growth for all of Africa.
