Chief Financial Officer

Description:

Responsibilities:

Strategic Finance Leadership

Lead and manage a finance team and responsible for day-to-day operations to ensure efficient functioning of the verticals Finance and Treasury departments.

Provide leadership to embed profitability, cash management culture, risk management, and excellent commercial judgement in business decision making.
Collaborate and contribute to Senior Leadership Team to drive company performance.
 

Develop, lead, and deliver the short- and long-term business plan, reflecting the company vision, including the identification of opportunities and risks and cash requirements.
 

Define key performance indicators for the company, through analysis, to drive business decisions and solutions to growth, costs, profitability, and cash management
 

Monitor and execute financial strategy by providing commercial insights, strategic analysis, and leadership on financial reporting.

Proactively advise the CEO and Senior Leadership Team on key business decisions through sound commercial judgement, including highlighting options, trade-offs, risks, and opportunities.

Provide guidance to the CEO and Senior Leadership Team on the preparation of the annual budget planning and the preparation of forecasts, trends, and financial reports.
 

Partner with the Senior Leadership Team in preparing business KPIs, board packages, investor reports, and reporting dashboards.

Build a strong finance team culture of integrity, collaboration, data-driven and proactiveness.

Strong risk management approach, helping the company identify business risks and implementing appropriate responses to the same

Ensure that business controls and finance SOPs on credit collections, purchasing functions etc. are adequate and regularly updated as might be required
 

Requirements
 

CA + other relevant senior finance qualifications
 

At least 15+ years of work experience, of which 5+ in a commodity trading industry( Preferable food ingredients / edible nuts), 5+ in Africa and 5 at a senior level.
 

Experience : treasury / consolidations / financial institute liaisons / joint ventures and mergers & acquisitions.
 

A people leader with excellent communication skills.
 

Ability to manage complex matrix structures and environments.