Role: Chief Finance Officer
Typical Titles: CFO, Director of Finance
Reports to: CEO – Board of Directors
Job Summary
Job Summary
Prioritized Tasks
- Contribute
to the preparation of the organization’s strategic plan and advise the CEO
and the Board on the financial implications and risks of the business
decisions undertaken by the organization.
- Overseeing
achievement of current year and longer term financial goals.
- Leading
effective strategic and execution focused business planning processes
which stretch the organization and identify critical weaknesses and key
opportunities, helping remediate the former and accelerate the latter.
- Ensure
innovative funding solutions are procured for the business to support its
growth plan through the development of key relationships in the banking
and funding sectors.
- Assessing
and managing strategic and operational business risks to enhance resource
allocation decision making in the short and longer terms and thereby
assure achievement of short and longer term business goals.
- Managing
the Balance Sheet to improve Capital Expenditure returns, Working Capital,
asset utilization and tangible asset turnover rates.
- Ensuring
all financial reporting submissions (actual and forecasts, P&L and Balance
Sheet) are suitably accurate and on time.
- Leading
the Leadership team in continuously improving governance, setting the
right tone at the top,
- Setting
the strategic direction and operational execution of specialist Finance
activities such as Tax and Treasury, ensuring they best meet the short and
longer term needs of the business whilst satisfying Corporate governance
and statutory reporting requirements.
- Enhancing
supply chain skills to effectively contribute to cost-to-serve, capex,
make vs buy and productivity enhancement decisions.
- Providing
counsel to the CEO as business partner, strategic and operational
consultant, and constructive challenger.
- Continuously
improving productivity in the Finance function (eg., via shared services)
as well as across the overall business, identifying opportunities and
ensuring they’re grasped.
- Working
with IT and ‘User’ Functions to improve processes, enhance cost-effective
automation and improve exploitation of installed systems.
- Developing
needed Finance function capabilities from the business and technical
Finance perspectives, building suitable career paths to both provide
necessary experience and exploit capabilities, and ensuring effective
succession planning.
- Building
a strong Finance team willing and able to raise individual and Function
performance bars every year and, in addition, be the glue that ensures all
the business Functions work effectively together to in pursuit of business
goals (end-to-end process orientation).
Required Qualification / Experience
- Minimum
bachelor’s degree and preferably an MBA from a recognized business school.
- Professional
Accounting or Finance qualifications e.g. CPA or ACCA. A member of a
recognized national or international certification body such as ICPAK
- Over
10 years of relevant experience working in a Finance role with:
- a
minimum of 5 years experience working as the head of the finance unit /
department.
- a
minimum of 3 years experience working in a manufacturing organization
- a
minimum of 3 years experience working in Emerging Markets
- Strong
corporate finance and strategic risk management background with experience
leading and organizing external financing for acquisitions and capital
expansion projects.
- Experience
leading or overseeing post merger implementation plans, in particular the
back-office integration of multiple plants.
- A
track record of leadership with a focus on monitoring and driving
execution towards the realization of cost and revenues synergies.
How to apply:
Applicants should email their applications attaching a detailed
curriculum vitae and a letter indicating why they are interested in and
qualified for the position and the names of three referees who can provide
confidential assessment of their capabilities to a Search Committee.
All communications relating to applications for this position
should be addressed to: email address: therecexpert@gmail.com.
Applications should be received by 22nd March 2013.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
On the subject matter of the email please indicate the position
you are applying for.