Finance Manager

Key Accountabilities

Operations & Treasury is responsible for driving day-to-day financial operations, optimizing working capital (AP & AR), and leading treasury and cash management activities. This role plays a critical part in maintaining operational liquidity, managing banking relationships, enforcing internal controls, and supervising operational finance staff.

Job Summary

1. Treasury & Liquidity Management

• Cash Flow Management: Direct daily, weekly, and monthly cash management activities to ensure optimal operational liquidity and cash distribution.
• Forecasting & Budgeting: Develop, maintain, and track rolling cash flow forecasts and annual liquidity budgets to support ongoing operational requirements.
• Banking Facilities: Manage relationships with banking partners, including the execution and follow-up of facilities (e.g., Bank Guarantees, money market instruments, foreign exchange, and working capital lines).
• Covenant & Risk Monitoring: Continuously monitor debt facility covenants, manage financial exposure risks, and negotiate facility amendments or waivers with lenders when required.

2. Operational Finance, AP & AR Management

1. Working Capital Oversight: Direct and supervise daily Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR) operations to ensure efficient disbursement cycles, timely collections, and minimized bad debt exposure.
2. Control & Reconciliation: Oversee daily/monthly bank reconciliations, transactional verifications, and corporate fund adjustments to safeguard company assets.
3. Process & Policy Enforcement: Enforce robust operational accounting procedures, identify operational risks, and continuously improve internal controls and workflows.

3. Operational Financial Planning & Analysis & Business Support

• Spend & Variance Analysis: Support department heads/budget owners by reviewing key spend, providing run rates, tracking monthly variances, and offering spending outlooks.
• Planning Support: Contribute operational inputs and working capital assumptions to the financial planning and forecasting cycles.
• Management Decision Support: Analyze operational financial data to provide actionable insights, ad-hoc analyses, and practical solutions to senior leadership.

4. Collaboration & Reporting Support

• Reporting Enablement: Work closely with the Reporting & Compliance team by providing accurate operational data, month-end closing inputs, schedules, and reconciliations in a timely manner.
• Audit Support: Assist the Reporting & Compliance team during internal and external audits by providing supporting documents and operational explanations for AP, AR, and Treasury.

5. Team Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Supervision & Mentorship: Lead, assign, and review work for the operational finance sub-team (AP/AR) to ensure accuracy, productivity, and professional growth.
• Stakeholder Management: Effectively manage relationships with internal business units, suppliers, customers, external lenders, and banking partners.
• Ad-Hoc Projects: Undertake operational finance projects and perform other duties as directed by management.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in Accounting or relevant from an accredited University or equivalent.
• Minimum of 3 years managerial experience.
• Detailed, articulate and precise person.
• People management skills.
• Analytical with people management.
• Good communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent organization, interpersonal and presentation skills.