Job Summary:
Our Client is a diversified conglomerate with a portfolio of business spanning across multiple sectors including: Tax Management services Tech services/Solutions Logistics Services Human resource services and Oil and Gas. The organizations diverse range of businesses enables them to provide a comprehensive suite of services to their clients. The organization is looking for an experienced Finance professional to lead the group s Finance department as the Senior Associate Finance. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the group s treasury financial planning and reporting Financing needs and managing the Bills Collections and Receivables. Reporting to the Partners within the group the Group CEO the SA Finance will be responsible for providing strategic financial guidance to support the groups growth and profitability.
Job Description:
The successful Associate will be responsible for:
1. Providing world class financial control for the Group its Businesses and Projects (altogether the Group).
2. Expertly manage the Group s bookkeeping and financial reporting functions.
3. Take responsibility for the Group s treasury functions ensuring sufficient liquidity at all times.
4. Forecasting preparing presenting and implementing workable expenditure budgets for the Group on a daily weekly monthly quarterly annual and other longer term periodic bases.
5. Ensuring a worldclass procurement (including vendors registration and vetting) process is in place in the Group and see to the strict implementation of the process.
6. Facilitating timely and auditable payments in the Group particularly using the Group s proprietary app which all personnel and vendors must be signed on.
7. Overseeing a proactive financing function that ensures that the Group explores and secures all credible sources for financing its operations and Projects; such sources to include but not limited to: equity contributions short term loans (including wellpriced Loan Notes moneymarket borrowings) long term loans (including at the capital markets (debt or equity) or with institutional borrowings).
8. Supervising the billing process of all Businesses by designing a system that ensures that all bills/fee notes go out accurately and as quickly as possible.
9. Knowing the finance or payment functions of all Clients in the Group and maintain all the relationships to ensure that collections come in as at when due.
10. Practically managing the receivables pool of the Group by expertly ensuring that sufficient new bills are generated to enter into the pool and sufficient older bills are collected to avoid bad debts.
11. Managing receivables (trade credits) expectations and the cost of service delivery and in this regard appoint and work with debt recovery agents to ultimately collect doubtful and or bad debts of the Group.
12. Facilitating the Group s business and financial compliance processes especially in relation to pensions taxes and other relevant obligations to Government or Clients.
Requirements
Job Requirements:
1. Bachelors degree in Accounting Finance or related field
2. 7 years of experience in Finance role preferably senior role
3. Excellent analytical problemsolving and communication skills
4. Professional certification will be an added advantage
5. Ability to engage and manage clients
6. Ability to work in a fastpaced environment and meet deadlines
Benefits
1. Life Health Insurance (including during Probationary Period).
2. Performance Allowances (subject to overall Company Performance).
3. Annual Leave Allowance; Annual End of Year Allowance; and Celebatory/Bereavement Support Allowance.
4. Finders Fee for New Businesses brought into the Company or the Group of Companies that our Client belongs to.
Senior Associate Finance
