Chief Finance Officer

Requirements

• M.Sc in Accounting / Finance / Business Administration
• Chartered Financial Analyst
• ACA or ACCA Qualification
• 4-7 years’ experience in a similar role
• Experience of working in a fast-paced and busy environment with competing demands on time and resources

Skills and Abilities:

• Financial planning and strategy
• Managing profitability
• Strategic planning and vision
• Quality management
• Promotion of process improvement
• Forecasting
• Budget development
• Good negotiation skills
• High level of professionalism
• Result-oriented team player with exceptional motivation and interpersonal skills.
• Relationship management skills and openness to feedback
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Good initiative, time and stress management skills
• Strategic thinker

Personal Attributes:

• Have a deep desire to work in the startup industry and be flexible to adapt to a dynamic environment
• Confident and pleasant
• A tech-savvy and knowledgeable of current trends
• Loves a challenge

Work Environment:

• Work in the office
• Required to work overtime, on weekends and travel if necessary

Requirements

• M.Sc in Accounting / Finance / Business Administration
• Chartered Financial Analyst
• ACA or ACCA Qualification
• 4-7 years’ experience in a similar role
• Experience of working in a fast-paced and busy environment with competing demands on time and resources

Skills and Abilities:

• Financial planning and strategy
• Managing profitability
• Strategic planning and vision
• Quality management
• Promotion of process improvement
• Forecasting
• Budget development
• Good negotiation skills
• High level of professionalism
• Result-oriented team player with exceptional motivation and interpersonal skills.
• Relationship management skills and openness to feedback
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Good initiative, time and stress management skills
• Strategic thinker

Personal Attributes:

• Have a deep desire to work in the startup industry and be flexible to adapt to a dynamic environment
• Confident and pleasant
• A tech-savvy and knowledgeable of current trends
• Loves a challenge

Work Environment:

• Work in the office
• Required to work overtime, on weekends and travel if necessary

• Ensure key financing rounds are closed quickly and smoothly.
• Develop financial models for the company as it grows and expands across Africa taking into account its unique business drivers
• Identify, develop and execute analysis of business initiatives, product launches and/or new service offerings.
• Draft relevant financial operating practices and ensure these policies are implemented.
• Responsible for internal and external audit
• Ensure tax, legislative and statutory requirements are met
• Ensures financial and operational compliance within all business units and look for effective methods to optimise company revenues
• Set operational policies for actuarial valuation of the business.
• Look for opportunities to minimise tax liabilities of the organisation.
• Management of all banking operations, inclusive of practices and policies.
• Manages corporate financing, liquidity risk and cash flow for policyholders and shareholders through the finance team.
• Analyses business, financial and general operating information to identify trends and opportunities for development and produce management information to ensure that business developments remain financially viable.
• Analyses and monitors the effect of budget or policy changes on business unit productivity.
• Assists in deciding on the financial and business viability of new and existing projects and programmes
• Responsible for creating annual and quarterly budget targets of the company, and ensuring compliance with budget allocations and policies
• Drafting and ensure all reporting obligations of the company are met within given timelines
• Coordinate all regulatory obligations of the company to ensure prompt compliance
• Perform other duties assigned to it by the CEO