Chief Financial Officer (Anambra)
- Full-time
Company Description
Our client is an integrated poultry agribusiness.
Job Description
- Develop and implement financial strategies to support the company's growth and profitability goals
- Lead the finance team, providing guidance and support to ensure accurate financial reporting and analysis for multiple entities
- Manage the financial planning and analysis function, including forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis for multiple entities
- Oversee the accounting function, ensuring compliance with local and international accounting standards and regulations
- Develop and maintain relationships with investors and other external stakeholders, including banks and financial institutions
- Lead the treasury function, managing cash flow and liquidity
- Oversee the audit preparation in a timely fashion
- Develop and implement internal controls and processes to ensure the integrity of financial information across multiple entities
- Participate in strategic planning and decision making as a member of the executive leadership team
- Monitor and analyse industry trends, and provide insights and recommendations to senior leadership
- Ensure financial systems are up to date and properly used
- Manage corporate financing, refinancing, and manage the relations with banks and other lending institutions
- Design and implement risk management policies, including financial, credit, and exchange risks
Qualifications
- Proven experience as CFO, financial controller or senior member of the finance team. (Minimum of 5 years working in a senior finance role)
- Experience with fund raising, investor management and corporate finance activities
- Experience with setting up/ utilizing a leading financial management software
- Relevant undergraduate degree and professional certification; Master’s degree in a relevant field is desirable
- Strong leadership and organizational skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset, comfortable with numbers
- Ability to strategize and solve problems
- Excellent interpersonal, networking and communication skills
- Strong leadership and organizational skills