Job Title: Chief Corporate Officer
Location: Gbagada, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Summary
- To achieve cost-effective Utilization of IT Horizons’ financial resources, through the definition of financial standards, policies and procedures.
Job Duties
- Engages Executive Management and the appropriate Board Committee to develop short, medium, and long-term financial plans and projections.
- Develops and utilise financial models and activity-based financial analysis to provide a basis for investment decisions and business planning.
- Manages key banking relationships to facilitate proper, timely and cost-effective funding of business operations.
- Develops and maintain a system of appropriate financial policies, procedures and controls to ensure efficient financial management.
- Monitors all third-party payments to ensure that such payments are justified by the value of work successfully completed and are in alignment with the approved budget.
- Oversees the preparation and communication of timely, accurate, and useful financial and management reports for investors or lending institutions and IT Horizons’ management on a periodic and /or ad-hoc basis.
- Raise funds as approved by the Board of Directors to finance IT Horizons’ activities.
- Implement a sound accounting framework in compliance with statutory provisions.
- Develops and implement a robust and reliable financial reporting system in compliance with statutory requirements.
- Ensures that adequate controls are in place to facilitate seamless payment system.
- Establish measures or controls to ensure that all financial transactions are accurately captured and reported.
- Approve accruals and adjustments on erroneously posted financial transactions into the financial system.
- Liaise with statutory auditors to discuss and resolve queries as they arise to ensure seamless audit exercise.
- Develops and manage relationships with relevant external bodies e.g. regulatory organisations, auditors, solicitors, banks etc.
- Respond to relevant requests from financial institutions.
- Approves payroll along with Head, Human Resources & Admin to facilitate payment to staff.
- Advise executive management on changes in financial regulations, legislation and government tariffs.
- Manage IT Horizons’ treasury assets to achieve optimal sourcing, application and growth of funds.
- Provide technical training, guidance and advise on financial accounting issues, developments and trends to other business or departmental heads.
- Manage day-to-day accounting transactions and provide leadership to company’s Finance Department.
- Manage the performance of staff in Finance Department.
- Review weekly financial reports submitted by relevant departments or units and presents timely reports to the Board of Directors.
- Coordinates the preparation of the company’s financial reports and statutory reporting process.
- Oversees the preparation of regular financial and management accounts.
- Perform other duties that may be assigned by the MD/CEO.
Qualifications
- Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or any related discipline.
- MBA or Master’s Degree in a related discipline is an advantage
- Relevant professional certifications from the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Association of Certified and Chartered Accountants (ACCA) or it sequivalent.
Experience:
- Minimum of 12 years relevant experience, 5 years of which must have been in an Executive Management position of an organisation, interfacing with the Executive team and financial partners.
- Experience of statutory financial reporting and knowledge of GAAP, IFRS.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested and qualified candidates should forward CV to: [email protected] and copy: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.
Deadline: June 8, 2023