Alan & Grant – Our client is recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:
Job Title: Corporate Finance Manager
Locations: Abuja
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Description
- Our client is seeking a Corporate Finance Manager to provide financial leadership in strategic planning.
- This role entails owning the long-term financial plan, serving as a finance partner for strategic departments, and ensuring strategic plans translate into operational outcomes.
- The ideal candidate must possess extensive expertise in corporate financial accounting, adaptability to a dynamic startup environment, and a proactive, hands-on approach when necessary.
- Responsibilities encompass overseeing budgeting, accounting, fiscal management, and financial reporting while ensuring compliance with organizational and governmental regulations.
- Moreover, the candidate will mentor direct reports, guide management in financial decision-making, utilize relevant financial tools, demonstrate effective communication and leadership skills, and maintain current knowledge of industry standards.
- Reporting directly to the CEO, this role is pivotal in ensuring the organization’s financial health and ROI generation.
Key Responsibilities
- ​Develop and implement financial strategies to support the company’s growth and profitability goals
- Lead the treasury function, managing cash flow and liquidity across multiple jurisdictions, and developing and implementing risk management strategies
- Develop and maintain relationships with investors and other external stakeholders, including banks and financial institutions across multiple jurisdictions
- Manage corporate financing, refinancing, and manage the relations with banks and other lending institutions
- Oversee the audit preparation
- Design and implement risk management policies, including financial, credit, and exchange risks
- Ensure compliance with tax laws and regulations across multiple jurisdictions, and manage the tax function
- Develop and implement internal controls and processes to ensure the integrity of financial information across multiple locations and entities
- Manage the financial due diligence process for potential acquisitions and other strategic initiatives across multiple jurisdictions
- Lead the finance team, providing guidance and support to ensure accurate financial reporting and analysis for multiple locations and entities
- Overseeing the reconciliation of income and expense reports
- Preparing and analyzing financial statements and profit and loss reports
- Designing financial models that will benefit different operating initiatives
- Manage and oversee operations of the finance department to meet set goals and objectives.
- Preparation of various accounting reports, financial statements, budgets, cost analyses, rate studies projections and interpreting financial information to managerial staff while recommending further courses of action.
- Prepare and review detailed financial analysis to illustrate key business drivers, and performance indicators, identify engagement risk and determine the appropriate financial strategies to get desired results.
- Analyse data and advise senior managers on profit-maximising strategies; help optimise company profits over time by making intelligent decisions for investments or spending funds to have the greatest return on investment.
- Build and maintain positive working relationships with other departmental Heads/Leads, other departments, outside agencies, vendors and state and federal auditors.
- Manage and oversee operations of the finance department to meet set goals and objectives.
- Developing and effectively implementing internal systems, business processes, SOPs, and organisational policies and procedures that ensure efficient and effective operations in finance.
- Conduct reviews and evaluations for cost-reduction opportunities
- Develop trends and projections for the company’s finances
- Advise on investment activities and provide strategies that the company should take
- Manage and coach an accounting team that can exhibit a great depth of the organisation’s values, and culture and show continuous growth in personal, departmental and organisational development.
- Up-to-date knowledge of industry standards for corporate finance administration, budget preparation and management, financial reporting, forecasting and financial analysis.
- Display in-depth understanding and application of leading practices in governance concerning finance in the workplace.
Requirements
- MBA / M.Sc in Finance
- At least 2 years senior management level experience in a reputable organization with 6+ years experience as a Financial Manager
- Must have ACCA / ACA / CFA
- Deep knowledge and use of relevant finance and data reporting tools/software
- A solid understanding of financial statistics and accounting principles
- Working knowledge of all statutory legislation and regulations
- Advanced proficiency in the use of MS Excel and other MS-word and G-suite tools.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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