CFO Kenya at DHL

Role Context

To develop, manage, and control the country finance, controlling and administration functions, in accordance with overall finance guidelines, legal framework and accounting standards with the objective of supporting the management decision-making process in the country PLUS other countries within sub-region and contributing to the achievement of the business objectives, whilst meeting regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in the definition of the local finance & controlling strategy, policies and procedures within overall Country context, underpinning the success of the business Promote cost efficient operations with focus on identifying cost saving measures
• Sets directions and strategies for controlling and accounting for the country to ensure that financial transactions, policies, and procedures meet the organization's short and long-term business objectives and are conducted in accordance with regulations standards.
• Establishes financial goals and monitors their implementation on the country level within sub-region and ensures that a red flag system is in place to report problems in a timely manner
• Leads, directs, and controls the organization’s financial resources to maintain the short and long-term financial health of a region or market zone business. Owns and develops long term financial planning for the country within sub-region
• Approves all investments in the country
• Ensures accurate, transparent, relevant and timely management reporting to division and executive board, including financial (CREST) and operational data
• Approves off monthly IFRS financial statement and ensures fulfilment of any IFRS / statutory / legal requirements
• Evaluates investment and acquisition business cases and co-ordinates the review and approval process in compliance with the DPDHL policy
• Ensures that the planning, budgeting and forecasting process complies with overall financial policies and procedures to support the achievement of strategic targets.
• Continuously improves financial processes, systems, tools, and techniques
• Takes appropriate measures to remedy financial risk
• Ensures proper billing and cash collection processes are in place in the country within sub-region
• Analyzes complex issues in finance and significantly improves, changes or adapts existing methods and techniques.
• Prepares necessary frequent reports for MD, Eastern Africa cluster CFO, SSA Area office and SMT
• Analyze records of internal customer inquiries, purchases, service requests and complaints to identify trends
• To monitor finance KPIs, standards and reporting
• Balance operational metrics against customer service metrics
• Convinces others within the organization to accept proposals and solutions where there may be little interest in cooperating or participating
• Maintains relationships and provides financial expertise to Africa management board and top-level experts in the organization

Minimum Requirements Education

• Graduate degree in financial management and accounting
• Qualified Accountant
• Minimum 5 years post qualification experience in an auditing /accounting firm
• Minimum 10 years’ experience at a senior accounting and finance level in a multinational company preferably in the services sector.
• Excellent operational process knowledge with strategic perspective