Unified Payment Services Limited is Nigeria’s premier Payments and Financial Technology Company, operating as a shared infrastructure and service provider for the banking community in Nigeria and payment service providers within and outside the country.
Job Title: Head, Revenue Assurance
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Objectives
The Head, Revenue Assurance will provide independent assurance that revenue-related processes, systems and controls across the organisation are efficient, accurate and compliant with internal policies and regulatory standards. The role focuses on identifying revenue leakages, assessing the effectiveness of revenue controls and recommending improvements to strengthen financial integrity and operational efficiency.
The successful candidate will lead revenue-focused audit engagements and work closely with Finance and Accounts, Operations, IT and other stakeholders to ensure transparent and reliable revenue reporting.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and execute audits and reviews covering revenue generation, recognition, billing and collection processes.
- Verify the completeness and accuracy of files generated from approved transactions processed for local and secondary settlements.
- Conduct quality checks to prevent duplicate or incomplete submission of clearing files to relevant payment schemes.
- Verify the completeness and accuracy of reprocessed rejected files or transactions and ensure timely resubmission.
- Provide regular oversight of approved transactions processed for international scheme settlements.
- Conduct oversight reviews of chargeback reconciliations to mitigate exposure from late presentment.
- Provide assurance over dispute and settlement management.
- Automate revenue assurance review processes to improve efficiency, audit coverage, accuracy and completeness.
- Develop and maintain a risk-based revenue audit plan aligned with organisational priorities.
- Evaluate the design and effectiveness of internal controls over revenue-related processes.
- Identify revenue leakages, control gaps and process inefficiencies and recommend corrective actions.
- Monitor the implementation of audit recommendations within agreed timelines.
- Assess compliance with internal revenue policies, accounting standards including IFRS and GAAP, and regulatory requirements.
- Monitor revenue risks and emerging control issues that may affect financial reporting accuracy.
- Review revenue-related systems, including billing platforms, ERP and POS systems, for data integrity and control effectiveness.
- Collaborate with IT Audit to ensure system configurations support accurate revenue capture and reporting.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or a related field.
- Professional certification such as ACA, ACCA, CPA, CISA, CIA or equivalent is required.
- Minimum of 10 years’ relevant experience in audit leadership roles focused on revenue assurance, risk management or financial controls.
- Experience in banking, telecommunications, insurance, utilities or large corporate audit environments is preferred.
- Strong understanding of revenue recognition principles, internal controls and risk-based auditing methodologies.
- Proven ability to use audit management and data analytics tools such as ACL, IDEA, Power BI and SQL.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to [email protected], using the job title as the subject of the email.
Application Closing Date: 11th September, 2026.