- This role is for a meticulous financial professional who ensures that our growth is backed by precision, compliance, and strategic foresight.
How You'll Make an Impact
- We are looking for a highly disciplined Finance Manager who lives and breathes numbers. This isn't just about bookkeeping; it's about end-to-end financial stewardship.
- You will be the guardian of our ledger, ensuring the absolute quality and timeliness of every financial statement, from cash flow to the balance sheet.
- You'll play a critical role in navigating the newly passed tax laws, ensuring our remittances (Tax, Pension, etc.) are flawless.
- If you have a consulting or startup background and thrive on the challenge of variance analysis, forecast accuracy, and operational risk management, you are the talent we need.
What You'll Do
Financial Reporting & Management Accounts:
- Prepare the Income Statement, Cash Flow Statement, and Balance Sheet with absolute accuracy.
- Conduct monthly bank reconciliations and manage the end-to-end accounting CRM tools.
- Analyze the Debt-to-Equity ratio and perform sensitivity analysis to guide leadership decision-making.
Financial Operations & Controls:
- Own the end-to-end Account Payables (AP) and Account Receivables (AR) lifecycle, ensuring timely payments and aggressive follow-up on outstanding client invoices.
- Perform meticulous monthly bank, vendor, and inter-company reconciliations to maintain 100% data integrity within our accounting systems.
- Develop and enforce rigorous financial control policies, ensuring all expenditures align with approved budgets and grade-level authorities.
- Supervise the issuance and tracking of all financial instruments, ensuring 100% accuracy and professional compliance in all documentation
- Manage the monthly payroll schedule and ensure 100% compliance with statutory remittances (LIRS, FIRS, Pension, etc.).
- Act as the subject matter expert on current Nigerian tax laws to prevent regulatory violations.
- Drive the quarterly Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) cycle.
- Measure budget utilization rates and identify specific areas for cost savings across the organization.
Compliance, Risk & Control:
- Develop and enforce financial control policies, ensuring all spending aligns with recruitment and grade-level budgets.
- Monitor liquidity risk and operational risk exposure daily.
What We're Looking For
Professional & Technical Strengths:
- Academic Qualification: Bachelor's degree (B.Sc) in Accounting, Finance, or Economics.
- Professional (Mandatory): Must be a Chartered Accountant (ICAN or ACCA).
- Experience: Minimum 2 years of end-to-end accounting experience, preferably within an accounting consulting firm or a fast-paced startup.
- Technical Knowledge: Deep understanding of current tax laws, pension remittances, and IFRS standards.
- Tools: Proficient in accounting CRM tools, ERPs, and advanced Microsoft Excel (for $MAPE$, variance, and sensitivity analysis).
- Reporting: Proven ability to deliver management accounts and financial forecasts under tight deadlines.
Leadership & Interpersonal Strengths:
- Attention to Detail: You are meticulous; a single misaligned digit bothers you.
- Analytical Mindset: You look past the numbers to understand the "why" behind the data.
- Integrity: You maintain the highest ethical standards in financial reporting and compliance.