Roles & Responsibilities:
The FC as a member of the management team is accountable for the financial and financial risk management operations. The FC is also involved in the development of a financial and operational strategy, metrics tied to that strategy, the ongoing development, monitoring of control systems designed to preserve company’s assets and report accurate financial results.
- Manage all accounting operations including Billing, A/R, A/P, GL and Counsel, Cost Accounting, Inventory Accounting and Revenue Recognition.
- Hands on experience in Accounts Finalization, DR/CR reconciliations, BRS preparations, Budgeting and Cash Flow Statements.
- Review all financial plans and budgets regularly to look for cost reduction opportunities.
- Coordinate and direct the preparation of the budget and financial forecasts and report variances.
- Prepare and publish timely monthly financial statements.
- Coordinate the preparation of regulatory reporting.
- Research technical accounting issues for compliance.
- Ensure quality control over financial transactions and financial reporting.
- Maintenance and documentation of accounting procedures & policies but not limited to only finance department.
- Maintaining robust relationships with external auditors and banks & financial institutions.
- Negotiating with Banks, handling LCs, BGs and OD facilities.
- Team Management including mentoring and staff development.
- Working closely with Executive Leadership team to deliver reports, analysis findings, potential risk areas and forecast opportunities.
- Strengthen finance department’s human resource strategies by determining accountabilities.
- Implementing selection, orientation, training, coaching, counselling, disciplinary, and communication programs; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions.
- Review existing finance organizational strategies by contributing financial and accounting information, analysis, and make recommendations to strategic thinking and direction, establishing functional objectives in line with organizational objectives.
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with senior executives so as to identify their needs and seek full range of business solutions.
- Experience in filing Tax returns viz, VAT, Withholding Tax, SDL, PAYE, WCF, NSSF, Provisional Tax, CSL.
- Ensure that all financial transactions are properly recorded and filed.
- Handling statutory Audit.
- Strong experience in maintaining internal controls and implement improved controls and procedures.
- Proven ability to analyse costs, control cost, reduce cost and prepare costing reports.
- Proven and strong ability to implement new systems, SOPs and KPIs. (VERY IMPORTANT). (The candidate must be system orientated).
- Strong knowledge (added advantage) in SAP Hana or other SAP versions, including implementation experience.
- Well versed with SAP’s business process (added advantage) mapping & configuration in SAP.
- Successfully meeting new technical challenges and finding solutions meets to the client requirements.
- The candidate should be articulate and have good communication skills.
- Oversee all accounts and investments.
- Stock taking and reconciliation.
- Financial and strategic analysis and simulations for business scenarios etc.
- Examine all financial reports and data closely to check for discrepancies.
- Establish and implement financial reporting systems to comply with government regulations and legislation.
- Ensure timely regulatory reporting relating to finance.
- Prepare requisite presentations, dash reports for Board meetings.
- Collaborate with auditing services to ensure proper compliance with all regulations.
- Report to Group CFO & CEO with timely and accurate financial information.
- Good Understanding skills of both business processes and technical developments.
- Understand and mitigate key elements of the organization's risk profile.
- Diplomatic, strong interpersonal skills, strong influencing abilities, ability to drive teams towards a result-oriented common goal being a strategic thinker and planner.
- Overall, the candidate should have a good focus on systems, implementation of procedure and understanding of always wanting to continuously improvement other departments and his/her department.
- Overall business acumen and leadership skills to be part of growth in business.
