Regional Finance Director at Human Edge Limited

Human Edge Limited - Our client, Nigeria’s leading media agency, has been at the forefront of efforts to build world-class brands both in Nigeria and across the West African sub-region. Today, the agency’s clout, professional approach and knowledge of diverse media environments around the continent ensure that the brands it partners with continue to tower above the competition. To help drive continuing growth and expansion, a talented professional (Nigerian or Expatriate) is now being sought to fill the position of:

Job Title: Regional Finance Director

Job Reference: DRM/114/RFD
Industry: Marketing Communications
Location: Lagos

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the CEO Nigeria/Regional Director, WECA, you will be expected to provide leadership in the formulation and implementation of financial strategy for accomplishing the agency’s business mission and objectives.
• Preparation of budgets and financial reports for the region including statements of income and financial position, tax returns and reports for government regulatory agencies.
• Providing proposals on changes to and implementation of approved accounting policies and procedures whilst overseeing adherence to same by BU Heads of Finance.
• Contributing to the achievement of regional business objectives and meeting legal responsibilities across jurisdictions by providing advice and guidance on financial strategy.
• Reviewing and standardizing all major regional client contracts, triggering changes for consistency with company financial goals and minimizing business risks.
• Overseeing all accounting procedures and systems utilized by the agency across the region.
• Interfacing with BU Chief Buyers to negotiate best floor media rates leveraging buys across the region.
• Reviewing reports and analyzing projections of revenue and income against actual figures and be highly involved in planning and improvement methods process.
• Monitoring financial performance, in particular cash flow, for effective treasury management across currencies and jurisdictions.
• Contributing to the continued growth and success of the business; developing financial models, planning for the future, with competitor analyses as a member of the regional management team.
• Working in collaboration with the regional tax advisors and auditors for effective tax planning.
• Overseeing, presenting and obtaining approval for annual budgets and long range plans in collaboration with the Regional Director/CEO Nigeria and other regional heads.
• Exhibiting high standard of performance by motivating, mentoring, directing the training and management development of BU Heads of Finance and a small regional finance staff.
• Conducting quarterly/half yearly performance review and year end appraisal of direct reports.
• Carrying out any other assignments as delegated by the Regional Director/CEO Nigeria.

Key Outputs

• Statutory accounts for the region
• Annual returns for the region
• Annual budget and long range plan for the region
• Annual departmental budget
• Monthly financial variance reports
• Monthly management accounts and subsidiary information and
• Trading company accounts

Requirements

• Qualified Accountant (ACCA, ACA, CFA) with a keen commercial sense.
• Minimum of 15 years post qualification experience in both accounting and management.
• Substantial working experience of management, ideally within FMCG organizations with a high volume/velocity of financial transactions, and/or in a leading media advertising agency in a developing country environment.
• Hands-on working knowledge of how to consolidate BU monthly financial variances into US$ profit leak analyses at regional level whilst managing transaction and translation exposures across soft currency environments/jurisdictions.
• Excellent strategic, analytical, interpretative, budgeting and long range planning skills.
• Proficient in the knowledge and deployment of ICT and accounting systems (e.g. Sage Line 50 and Pastel/ Evolution, and other ERP accounting software).
• Ability to develop and monitor implementation of policy, manage change and having cross cultural (diversity) sensitivity.
• Encourage accountability and internal and external customers focus.
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills.

Remuneration
This position offers excellent remuneration and career opportunities to the right candidate, and will be particularly appealing to talented professionals (Nigerian or Expatriate) seeking new and exciting corporate leadership opportunities in a dynamic organization.

Application Closing Date
12th March, 2014

Method Of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send a comprehensive resume to: recruitment@heworld.com quoting the job reference as subject of e-mail