Reporting & Accounting
Role Description:
This role is responsible for delivering relevant, compliant financial reports to internal and external stakeholders to protect the financial reputation of the Company.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure a robust system is in place to allow capturing of all relevant financial transactions in an effective manner.
- Ensure company’s policies and procedures are followed and/or tailored to local circumstances, staff is adequately trained, good practices are shared and there is financial oversight over the various functions.
- Maintain accounting controls and ensure company’s accounting policies and procedures are adhered to.
- Provide guidance and interpretation to other departments on accounting policies, applying observations and recommendations to operational issues.
- Maintain the integrity of the financial processes by establishing internal controls over financial reporting and ensuring policies and procedures are followed.
- Maintain the relationship with the external auditor and actuary both for local and group reporting.
- Prepare the local quarterly interim condensed financial statements as well as the annual financial statements in compliance with local rules and regulations (IFRS, CAMA, NSE and Financial Reporting Council).
- Actively participate in career development in the Finance Department. This is achieved by communicating job expectations, counselling and disciplining employees, appraising and reviewing job contributions and identifying potential successors for the finance team.
Person Specifications:
Education
- University Degree, MSc/MBA
- Accounting, Economics or Finance, Business Administration
- Membership of ACCA, ICAN, CPA or international equivalent required.
Experience
- Minimum of 12 years’ cumulative experience at least 5 of which in a managerial role
- Experience in managing a team of analysts/ accountants
- Experience in coordinating the reporting activities for a multi-location organization.
- Ability to function as a team leader, with excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills. Also, able to work as an individual contributor to complete tasks.
- Ideally, this will have been gained in a ‘big 4’ Accounting firm as well as a well-respected MNC