Finance Manager Job Vacancy at Edge Business Concept Limited

Edge Business Concept Limited is a HR Service organisation, established in response to the increasingly popular option for SMEs to outsource their HR responsibilities to HR specialists, who can provide a variety of support functions without huge overheads. We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Finance Manager Location: Lagos Job Description

• To provide accurate, timely and meaningful financial and management information that enables the Country Manager make effective decisions regarding the execution of strategic and operational objectives.

Duties & Responsibilities Essential duties/key job roles and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Collaborate with Group Finance Manager to design and implement scalable finance systems, taking into account any required enhancements and upgrades.
• Supports Procurement Manager locally.
• Support business continuity through timely funding of approved requests.
• Ensure reports meet with regulations of state and federal laws.
• Ensure remittance of all statutory payments within agreed timeline.
• Manage new and existing regulatory requirements where appropriate and incorporate them into the financial and management accounts.
• Responsible for all of the outputs of the payroll function with a view to putting in place the necessary controls and checks that ensures all employees are paid accurately and on time.
• Management, development and performance evaluation of all members of the Finance Team.
• Manage receivables and other Finance related Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with customers; including weekly updates on customer accounts.
• Generate Purchase Orders and manage payables in alignment with agreed contractual milestones, including weekly updates on supplier accounts, and other project related / staff accounts.
• Manage and archive financial records / documentation e.g. invoices, purchase orders, financial reports, et cetera.
• Identify, investigate, and analyze potential operational improvement. As appropriate, based on findings make proposal for operational changes (policy, procedures, processes, et cetera).
• Manage third-party financial service providers e.g. Auditors and Accountants.
• Analyze financial performance against key business metrics and document pertinent financial highlights that will enable management to determine progress against budgets.
• Prepare the management accounts, and seek to implement a best practice approach for financial accounting controls.
• Contribute towards, and implement the necessary controls to protect the organization’s assets and prevent any potential areas of fraud.
• Assist the Country Manager with the preparation of the detailed annual budget and forecasts.
• Responsible for collating inputs, preparing, obtaining approval and funding for weekly budgets. Manages budget disbursement and reconciliation.

Expected Output Below are key output measurable expected of the Finance Manager:

• Management Accounts – i.e. Monthly P&L, Cash flow (monthly and weekly) and Balance Sheet (Statement of Financial Position).
• Budgets and forecasts – Annual and weekly.
• Statutory payments.
• Financial record database.
• Weekly customer and supplier account.
• Invoices, invoice trackers and invoice reports.

Qualifications Required Education:

• B.Sc. Accounting / Finance
• CPA or MBA Preferred

Relevant Working Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years, including 2 years in similar position

Required Certification(s):

• ICAN, ACCA or equivalents.

Knowledge, Skills & Attitude:

• Have a flair for numbers, work well with people, aggressively anticipate impacts of workload/issues to team deadlines and have a very positive work attitude including willing to work some longer hours during peak periods.
• Strong organizational, analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• An appreciation of customer expectations with a customer-oriented approach to results, including internal stakeholders.
• Self-motivated to learn new concepts and participate in new projects.
• Advanced understanding of service delivery work flow and business processes.
• Conversance and mastery of prevalent / leading accounting systems / software.
• Conversance with financial / accounting regulations of state and federal laws.
• Strong experience in income statement analysis.
• Advanced Excel skills, ability to work with lookups and pivot tables.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Outlook and PowerPoint.

Working Conditions

• Extended work hours.
• May require travel - local and international.
• Working under pressure.