Head of Finance at IDYHA Capital

At IDYHA Capital we believe in the immense potential of regions businesses and partner with exceptional management teams to help them thrive. We identify and address critical gaps that hinder business growth.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of Finance

Location: Lagos 
Employment Type: Full-time, Leadership

Description

• The Head of Finance role is critical to stabilising cash flow, improving capital efficiency, strengthening reporting and accountability, and supporting sustainable, profitable growth.

Role Purpose

• The Head of Finance will be the senior Manager responsible for financial stewardship, performance management, and capital discipline across the business units. The role combines hands-on financial control with strategic leadership, ensuring that Bature Brewery operates within clear financial parameters while building the systems, reporting, and governance required for scale.

The HOF will play a central role in:

• Embedding KPI-led management and scorecard discipline
• Supporting a structured monthly performance and board reporting cycle
• Managing liquidity, working capital, and creditor exposure
• Supporting equity and debt investment processes
• Leading the receivable management process
• Enabling informed, data-driven decision-making across the executive team

Key Responsibilities
Financial Strategy & Executive Partnership:

• Act as a core strategic partner to the CEO, contributing to business strategy, capital planning, and long-term sustainability.
• Translate strategic objectives into clear financial plans, constraints, and performance targets.
• Provide independent financial judgement and challenge to executive and operational decisions.
• Support scenario planning and stress-testing to guide decisions under different growth and liquidity conditions.

Governance, Reporting & Performance Management:

• Own the financial component of the company’s governance framework, ensuring clarity, discipline, and transparency.

Lead the development and maintenance of:

• Executive scorecards
• Departmental KPIs
• Monthly performance dashboards covering financial and operational metrics

Drive a robust monthly performance meeting cadence, ensuring:

• Accurate, timely reporting
• Clear variance analysis versus budget, prior periods, and targets
• Action-oriented insights rather than backward-looking reporting
• Prepare board-level and shareholder-level financial reporting aligned to agreed governance standards.

Budgeting, Forecasting & Cash Management:

• Lead annual budgeting and rolling forecasting processes, aligned to agreed strategic priorities and capacity constraints.

Maintain tight control over:

• Cash flow and liquidity
• Working capital (receivables, payables, inventory)
• Short-term and medium-term cash runway
• Establish and monitor minimum liquidity thresholds and early-warning indicators.
• Ensure financial discipline across departments while enabling commercial flexibility where justified.

Operational Finance & Cost Control:

• Oversee all finance operations, including accounting, payroll, AP/AR, tax, compliance, and audit processes.
• Strengthen internal controls and financial procedures appropriate to a growing FMCG and hospitality business.

Work closely with Operations, Production, Sales, and F&B teams to:

• Improve margin visibility by product, channel, and venue
• Drive cost efficiency without undermining quality or growth
• Support pricing, promotions, and investment decisions with robust financial analysis

Multi-Revenue Stream & Commercial Finance:
Provide financial oversight across diverse revenue streams, including:

• Brewery production and wholesale distribution
• Taprooms and hospitality venues

Events, partnerships, and brand-led initiatives

• Ensure clear P&L visibility by business line, venue, and channel.
• Support commercial teams with financial insight on customer profitability, contract terms, credit risk, and growth opportunities.

Capital, Investors & External Stakeholders:

• Lead financial preparation and execution for equity raises, debt financing, and investor engagement.
• Support valuation analysis, investment structures, and use-of-funds discipline.

Act as primary finance interface with:

• Investors and shareholders
• Banks and lenders
• Auditors, tax advisers, and regulators

Ensure capital is deployed in line with agreed priorities, milestones, and governance approvals.

Leadership & Team Development:

• Build and lead a capable finance function suited to a multi-site, multi-revenue FMCG and hospitality business.
• Develop finance team members to move beyond bookkeeping into analysis, insight, and business partnering.
• Foster a culture of accountability, clarity, and continuous improvement within the finance function.

Experience & Qualifications
Essential:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related discipline.
• Senior finance leadership experience (typically 10+ years), Finance Manager /Director, or equivalent role.
• Strong background in FMCG, food & beverage, brewery, or hospitality-led businesses.
• Proven experience managing multiple revenue streams and complex operating models.
• Strong Communication skills ( written and verbal )
• Demonstrated ability to operate in capital-constrained, fast-growing environments with high cash-flow sensitivity.
• Experience working with boards, investors, and external stakeholders will be a plus

Highly Desirable:

• Professional qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) and/or MBA.
• Experience supporting equity raises, restructures, or turnaround-adjacent environments.
• Hands-on experience with ERP and financial reporting systems suitable for scaling businesses.
• Exposure to African or emerging-market operating contexts.

Key Competencies & Attributes:

• Strong commercial and operational mindset
• High financial discipline combined with pragmatic decision-making
• Ability to simplify complexity and communicate clearly to non-finance leaders
• Comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution
• High integrity, independence of thought, and sound judgement
• Resilient, structured, and calm under pressure

What Success Looks Like in This Role:

• Improved cash flow predictability and liquidity discipline
• Clear, trusted monthly financial and KPI reporting across the business
• Stronger linkage between strategy, budgets, and execution
• Increased confidence from shareholders and external partners
• A finance function that enables growth rather than reacts to it

Application Closing Date
20th February, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and a brief cover letter outlining relevant leadership experience and measurable achievement to: Chiamaka@jpgramm.com and copy cynthia.onuoha@idyha.com using the Job title as the Subject of the email.

Note: Applications that do not meet the stated criteria will not be considered.