Assistant Manager Finance - Treasury at TUME Middle Africa Consulting Limited

GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION

The positions key responsibilities are:

1. Financial modeling, budgeting, variance analysis, business intelligence and forecasting.
2. Establish and evaluate businesses capital requirements, support fund raising and investor relations.
3. Manage liquidity risks within the approved thresholds. Advise on cost of funds, risks and pricing.
4. Manage balance sheet risks and ensure balance sheet optimization. Champion ALCO meetings.
5. Maintaining timeliness, accuracy and adequacy of financial and management reporting. Support management, Board, investor and other stakeholder reporting.
6. Support all round risk management and compliance including investor covenants.
7. Support people management including training, performance management and mentoring.

SPECIFIC JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Assistant Manager Finance - Treasury is responsible and accountable for the following Core job elements:

• Assemble industry-based market research and advise on industry benchmarks and trends. Manage data, trends, insights and metrics for the business and the industry.
• Financial analysis, variance analysis and forecasting of growth projections for the business including budgets.
• Providing analysis and modeling support to the business as per business requirements.
• Cashflow projections and planning-preparation of rolling budgets. Contribute to the drafting and / or revising of annual budgets and business plans.
• Extracting and providing cash liquidity analysis. Preparation of cash call requests from the holding company for approval.
• Projecting the funding gaps, generating & updating funding pipelines, organizing meetings, preparation of information packs, responding to queries from analysts and investors.
• Liaising with financial advisors, conduct due diligence, prepare documentation / contracts negotiations, closure, disbursement, relationship management and monitoring for compliance against covenants, reporting requirements etc.
• Reviewing revenue, pricing, expenses, portfolio mix and aspects that assist in improving performance and decision making.
• Conducting system reviews and system enhancements for business modelling and analytics.
• Reviewing branch accounts and branch data to give performance improvement recommendations.
• Supporting the executive leadership in preparation of board packs and stakeholder presentations.

EDUCATIONAL & COLLATERAL REQUREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting or Business Administration and CPA / ACCA or CFA qualification.
• Six (6) or more years’ experience in corporate finance (either buy or sell side of debt or equity). Experience in Commercial or Microfinance Banking is an added advantage.
• Experience building financial models from scratch, budgeting, scenario analysis and stress testing required. Practical knowledge, experience with applicable tax laws required.
• Self-starter. Strong analytical and outstanding strategic, interpersonal, problem solving, negotiation, complex accounting, communication and people management skills.
• IT Skills: MS Office particularly excel and PowerPoint, accounting software such as Navision, SAP, QuickBooks, Oracle.