Overview
Key Purpose of the Job
– Responsibility to ensure that appropriate financial systems and processes are in place.
– This includes but is not limited to Company Reporting, Cash Management, Debt Facilities, Risk Management and Audits, Tax Compliance, Insurance, Contract Management and Terms of Trade & Accounting Projects & Analysis.
– Corporate Finance: Optimizing the balance sheet structure.
– Financial Strategy: including budgeting, forecasting, contributing to overall strategy and investment prioritization, investor relationship management.
– Risk Management: organizational risk framework (strategic and financial). Financial Strategic: Direction and Leadership
Major responsibilities:
– Assist the CEO in developing, for the Board’s approval, a strategic financial direction and positioning to ensure the Company’s success.
– Develop and recommend an annual operating plan and financial budget that support the Company’s long term strategy and medium to short term operating plan for the strategy.
– Work directly with the CEO to help raise funding, loans and venture capital for the company.
– Create, coordinate and evaluate the financial controls and supporting information systems of the Company.
– Together with the CEO, approve and coordinate changes and improvements to disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial and MIS reporting.
– Develop appropriate key performance indicators to monitor and drive the financial performance of the Company and the operating business units.
– Oversee and monitor the Company’s financial position, banking and financing activities and capital structure and monitor the respect of banking and financial covenants and hedging arrangements, as applicable.
– Ensure the adequacy of the Company’s insurance coverage.
– Oversee and monitor effective tax strategies and compliance for the Company.
– Ensure optimal team size of the Department with proper work allocation to each team member.
– Coordinate for the preparation of the Company’s financial statements and management discussion and analysis. (annual and interim)
– Coordinate the annual audit with Internal auditors as well as Company’s external auditors
– Assist the Company’s Audit Committee in performing its duties required under the applicable laws and the Audit Committee.
– Attend meetings of the Board and its Committees and present the financial information necessary or relevant to the Board or such Committee for discharging its duties.
– Establish and maintain lines of communications with the investor community and oversee the dissemination of the Company’s press releases, annual report, communications with analysts and the media and investor relations.
– Provide both people management and subject matter leadership to the corporate finance team.