Miller Consult Limited – Our client, a Fast-Growing Emergency Medical Services Company, is recruiting suitable candidates to fill the position below:
Job Title: Head of Finance
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Job Description
- We’re looking for a strategic and hands-on Head of Finance to lead the financial strategy, planning,
- and operations of our organization.
- This role is critical to shaping our business model, enablingsustainable growth, and ensuring financial discipline as we scale.
- You’ll be responsible for designing financial systems, building robust models, tracking key financial and operational metrics, and ensuring compliance with local and international standards.
- You will work closely with the CEO, functional leads, and external partners to drive financial performance and transparency.
Responsibilities
Financial Strategy & Leadership:
- Own the financial strategy and long-term financial planning process.
- Define and optimize unit economics for core and new service offerings.
- Partner with the executive team to guide pricing, expansion, and fundraising strategies.
Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A):
- Build and maintain robust financial models, forecasts, and budgets.
- Track key financial and operational metrics to inform decision-making.
- Conduct scenario planning to support strategic and fundraising decisions.
Accounting & Reporting:
- Oversee preparation of timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial
- statements.
- Lead the development of managerial accounts and financial reporting systems.
- Ensure compliance with local tax regulations, IFRS (or GAAP), and audit requirements.
- Preparation of quarterly board reports.
Policies, Controls & Compliance:
- Design and implement financial policies, internal controls, and risk management processes.
- Establish procurement, expense, and financial approval processes.
- Ensure financial discipline and transparency across the organization.
- Investor Relations & Grant Finance Management
- Build and maintain strategic relationships with investors, financial institutions, and partners.
- Oversee capital management initiatives, including fundraising and optimizing capital *structure, to fuel ambitious growth.
- Manage financial aspects of donor and grant-funded projects, including budgeting, compliance, and financial reporting.
- Prepare timely and accurate financial reports for donors and funding partners.
- Coordinate with program teams to ensure alignment of financial and programmatic reporting.
Team & Stakeholder Management:
- Build and lead a lean finance team as the company grows.
- Manage relationships with banks, investors, regulators, auditors, and grant funders.
- Support fundraising and investor relations with financial analysis, due diligence
- documentation, and investor reporting.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field. MBA, CPA, ICAN,
- ACCA, or CFA certification highly preferred.
- 8 – 10 years of experience in finance, ideally with a blend of startup, healthcare, or tech
- experience.
- Proven experience developing and managing financial models and forecasts.
- Deep understanding of unit economics, cost optimization, and pricing strategies.
- Strong knowledge of IFRS and Nigerian tax and regulatory environment.
- Proven track record managing donor funds and preparing grant financial reports (e.g., for
- foundations, bilateral/multilateral agencies, or NGOs).
- Hands-on experience setting up and managing financial systems, tools, and internal
- controls in early-stage or scaling environments.
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills.
Benefits
- A mission-driven team focused on delivering life-saving care in underserved communities.
- Opportunity to shape the financial infrastructure of a high-impact HealthTech startup.
- Competitive salary and benefits.
- Supportive and flexible work environment with high levels of responsibility and ownership.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their resume and a short cover letter outlining their interest and relevant experience to: info@millerconsult.org using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.