The Finance Manager will play a key role in overseeing the organisation's endtoend finance function, ensuring robust financial controls, accurate reporting, and adherence to regulatory requirements. This position provides leadership with timely and meaningful financial insights, supports effective decisionmaking, and develops scalable finance processes suited for a rapidly expanding, techdriven business.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a strategic partner to senior stakeholders by providing clear, datadriven financial insights that guide business decisions.
- Offer a consolidated financial view across all business units, ensuring alignment with the organisation's broader objectives.
- Shape and execute the group's financial roadmap with an eye on both immediate operational needs and longterm growth.
- Support leadership with scenario planning, financial modeling, and analytical insights across multiple geographies.
- Enhance financial governance by strengthening internal controls, policies, and compliance frameworks across all legal entities.
- Lead the preparation and delivery of accurate, timely financial statements at both entity and group levels.
- Manage multientity financial consolidation, coordinating with regional finance teams and HQ representatives.
- Oversee the budgeting and forecasting cycles, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and alignment with strategic priorities.
- Build and maintain management dashboards, KPIs, and reporting tools to deliver actionable insights.
- Lead annual audit processes, acting as the key liaison for external auditors and internal stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory standards across all jurisdictions, coordinating with tax advisors and regulatory bodies as needed.
- Maintain adherence to local accounting standards while supporting agile operations suited to a highgrowth environment.
- Oversee daytoday finance activities including AP/AR, payroll coordination, cashflow management, and treasury functions.
- Implement and refine policies, processes, and systems that improve accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
- Drive initiatives that promote accountability, process optimisation, and continuous improvement within finance operations.
- Manage cashflow forecasting and working capital to ensure financial stability and readiness for expansion.
- Support fundraising initiatives, investor discussions, and the preparation of boardlevel financial materials when required.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related discipline.
- Professional qualification such as ACCA, CPA, CIMA, or CA (finalist or fully qualified).
- Strong grounding in audit, preferably from a reputable audit firm.
- Experience preparing management accounts and handling multicountry financial consolidation.
- Exposure to technologydriven, startup, or fastgrowing environments is advantageous.
- Solid understanding of applicable accounting standards and statutory reporting requirements.
- Handson, detailoriented, and capable of managing multiple priorities across regions.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and familiarity with financial reporting or BI tools.
