Head of Finance and Accounting at SunCulture

Job description

Detailed Responsibilities

• Financial Administration
  • Plan and manage SunCulture’s fiscal function and performance
  • Ensure that SunCulture has the right financial policies, systems, processes and procedures to ensure capital is safe and efficiently used
  • Manage budgets and cash flows as well as predict and highlight issues that may arise to senior management
  • Develop reporting frameworks for senior management, the Board, investors and other key stakeholders
• Audits and Controls
  • Define and manage the different legal structures and accounting standards required to operate in different countries. Optimise the Organisation’s structure accordingly; manage forex exchange risk
  • Define SunCulture’s audit and internal control structures, ensuring strict financial controls are in place and adhered to
  • Coordinate all external audits. Ensure that recommendations as well corrections identified are implemented
  • Ensure that the Organisation complies with all legal and regulatory requirements
• Team Management
  • Manage the performance of the Finance team in line with agreed KPIs
  • Identify and develop the training required to contribute to the professional growth of the team

Does this sound like you?

• 5 - 15 years' experience
• Proven ability and demonstrable experience in similar role in a start-up
• Ability to interpret financial models
• Willing and able to make and execute hard decisions - own the process, own the strategy, own the outcomes
• Ability to manage a variety of large tasks with competing timelines and priorities
• Formal accounting or finance qualifications, e.g. CFA, CIMA, CA, ACA
• Kenyan national