Finance Manager
Job Description
- To supervise the procurement & payments, contracts &
contractors and financial accounting and reporting function of planning,
tracking and reporting on expenditure (operational and capital) in line
with company policies, guidelines and deadlines. Provide financial advice;
identify and report financial risks to internal client/s and relevant
executive managers.
Key Measurable Goals
- Reporting: Management, statutory and regulatory reporting.
- Effective management of suppliers’ payments, statutory
payments, utility bills and all branch and Head Office imprests.
- To ensure financial controls and reconciliations are done on
timely basis and closing all outstanding issues.
- Budgetary and Business planning.
- Liaison with administration and procurement department in
regard to suppliers and procurement issues.
- Liaison with Internal and External auditors.
- Team management and fostering a culture that drives staff
engagement.
Key
Responsibilities
Reporting
- Ensure that the reports are prepared in a timely manner.
- Ensure that the reports are accurate and are of high quality.
- Business partnering through explaining and guiding business
teams on interpreting and actioning reports.
Finance Operations
- Effective management of suppliers payments, timely and
accurate statutory payments, utility bills and all supplier payments
- Oversight on Petty cash & imprest administration ensuring
branches are adequately replenished at all times.
- Management of staff advances and settlements.
- Liaising with Procurement & Admin Manager ensuring that Creditors
and suppliers are managed satisfactorily.
- Liaising with internal and External Auditors in carrying out
periodical and Year end Audits respectively.
Internal Controls & Bank Reconciliations
- Ensuring that all control account reconciliations are carried
out on a timely basis for all control accounts and reconciling items are
dealt with on time.
- Ensuring that all bank reconciliations are carried out on a
timely basis, investigations done on outstanding items and cleared.
- Ensure good bank relationship management for purposes of
correction and issuing of paying instructions.
- Ensuring that all fixed assets are adequately recorded,
reconciled and reported.
- Budget Preparations and Business planning
- Involved in Business planning and budget preparation.
- Budget control and monitoring by ensuring the budget holders
take charge of their costs and through variance reports.
- Support and/or undertake cost benefit analysis on all
expenditures and investments.
- Taxation
- To ensure that monthly Tax computations are prepared and made
on time such as PAYE, reverse tax and withholding tax.
- Perform a quarterly tax health check.
- Leadership
- Mentor and develop the team, managing work allocation,
training, problem resolution and leave management.
Bankwide AML, KYC & CFT
- Monitor, on a continuous basis, all transactions to ensure
that unusual and suspicious transactions are reported to the Money
Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO)
- Implementing and enforcing the board approved AML, KYC &
CFT policy in as far as is applicable within my area of responsibility
Education
- Degree in Business related Studies
- CPA (K) /ACCA
Desirable
- Masters degree in Business or Finance.
- Other relevant Professional Certifications.
Knowledge and Skills
- Analytical skills
- Management and Leadership skills
- Financial Management
- Excellent Computer packages knowledge
- Working knowledge of Emerge T24 and D365
Experience
- At least 3 years Supervisory experience in
- Financial Accounting Experience
Personal Attributes
- Demonstrate management abilities.
- Analytical
- Confident
- Integrity
- Diligent
- Attention to detail.
How to Apply