Chief Financial Officer Jobs in Kenya

Chief Financial Officer Jobs in Kenya

Our client is a leading provider of integrated business and technology solutions across Africa in the Financial, Telecom, Real Estate, Service Industries and Government sectors in partnership with global technology industry leaders.

They are driven by the desire to deliver business value to customers through a combination of processes, innovation, excellence, quality frameworks and service delivery with the core motivation being to define service excellence in technology driven business solutions.

Our client is looking for a seasoned finance expert to take up the role of a Chief Financial Officer.The jobholder will report to the Chief Executive Officer.

This is a senior executive role that supports the Chief Executive Officer and the Board to manage working capital, manage project financing and maximise assets.

The ideal candidate has deep finance knowledge with good commercial operations expertise and can support project delivery. The role will manage project financing to a tune of $65M concurrently.

Further details concerning the role are as follows:

Job purpose / summary:

This is a senior executive responsible for managing the financial actions of a company. Including tracking cash flow and financial planning as well as analysing the company’s financial strengths and weaknesses and proposing corrective actions.

He/she is responsible for managing the finance, accounting, project financing, bid & sales commercial validation, logistics & warehousing functions.

This incorporates maintenance of the accurate and complete project accounting records; production of internal and external financial and operational reports for use by management and the board; undertake financial planning, project financing and budgeting based on input from the business heads and continuously monitor performance against the agreed financial objectives;

undertake long term financial planning and initial input for strategy formulation; manage the cost base by instituting effective supply chain and purchasing policies and follow up measures; manage all the company properties and other project assets and ensure that these are in a proper state of repair at all times; manage the centralised administration function which has the responsibility for the provision of operational support for the entire company.

Duties and Responsibilities