Senior Specialist: ERP Engineer

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, including cards, bank transfers, and mobile money, our single API payment platform, Tingg, simplifies collections, disbursements, and reconciliations. It processes over 4.5 million transactions daily for market leaders across 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 Overview: 

You will provide foundational technical and operational support for Cellulant’s Oracle NetSuite environment. You will assist in the day-to-day administration of the ERP, ensuring data integrity, updating workflows, and supporting the finance and accounting teams in their routine operations. This role is ideal for a detail-oriented professional looking to grow their technical expertise in a complex, multi-subsidiary fintech environment

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:

1. Integration & Data Management

• Monitor and maintain integrations between NetSuite and other business applications, such as the Oracle Data Warehouse.

• Identify and report integration failures or data sync errors to ensure seamless data exchange with NetSuite.

• Maintain the master data structure (e.g., customers, items, custom lists) to ensure global consistency and alignment with reporting strategies.

• Maintain and update mappings of transaction data (e.g., customers and services) to billing details and financial postings, such as cost of sales and third-party balances.

• Support budget and other financial data imports.

2. Revenue Engineering

• Maintain the revenue engineering process, encompassing billing data mapping, data extraction and daily revenue computation in the Oracle Data Warehouse.

• Validate the automated daily and monthly revenue computations to ensure accuracy and auditability.

3. Automation & Process Optimisation

• Automate finance and other business functions in NetSuite.

• Design and maintain saved searches, reports, and dashboards to provide visibility into key business metrics.

4. Governance, Audit, and User Support

• Maintain day‑to‑day NetSuite operations across subsidiaries.

• Manage user roles, permissions, and security governance.

• Maintain approval workflows and financial controls.

• Troubleshoot system issues and coordinate additional support where required.

• Support month‑end and year‑end finance processes.

• Maintain comprehensive documentation for all designs, user guides, and process workflows for audit readiness.

• Conduct training sessions for users and develop user guides to improve system adoption.

What we are looking for:

• 1–3 years of hands-on experience administering NetSuite or a similar ERP.

• Foundational knowledge of Finance & Accounting principles, specifically within multi-currency or multi-subsidiary environments.

• ERP certification (complete or in progress).

• SQL or Oracle SQL knowledge.

Experience that will count in your favour (Highly Valued)

• Experience in fintech, payments, or financial services.

• Familiar with SuiteScript 2.0.

• Experience with REST APIs and integrations.

• Experience with Oracle Database or Data Warehousing.

• Experience supporting finance