CFO
- Recruiter
- Recruitment Matters
- Location
- Zimbabwe
- Salary
- Competitive salary
- Posted
- 31 Oct 2024
- Closes
- 30 Nov 2024
- Ref
- 22385
- Job role
- Accountant
- Sector
- Accounting - Public practice
Our client in the agriculture industry is looking for a CFO to join their team.
Salary:
Responsibilities:
Key Skills:
Qualifications:
Salary:
- Negotiable
Responsibilities:
- Monitor and direct the implementation of strategic business plans.
- Manage the accounting, human resources, limited investor relations, legal, tax, and treasury.
- Oversee the company's transaction processing systems and financial operations.
- To produce consolidated financial reporting.
- Maintain effective controls and plans to ensure sufficient cash flow and liquidity.
- Manage revenue and cash forecasts, while continuing to improve accuracy.
- Support monthly, quarterly and board reporting to ensure there is clarity on the performance of the business.
- Treasury Operations.
- Lead CFOs in the credit/due diligence process based on existing methodologies and make recommendations for improvements as required.
- Lead the finance team in a manner that empowers them to add value to the company and deliver high standards of performance.
- Plan and organize the work of the finance function to accomplish strategic goals and targets in the most cost-effective and impactful manner possible as well as ensure that each team member is provided with clarity concerning goals and expectations of their role in achieving results, and standards and behaviour.
- Support and build the capacity of team members to enable them to give their best e.g. by encouraging and praising good performance, coaching, training, assisting staff to prevent or resolve problems, and providing resources, tools, and equipment.
- Support with company-wide people management functions and compliance.
- Assist the senior management team in formulating the future direction of the company with both strategic and tactical initiatives.
- Find areas of internal efficiency and help drive the change needed to miminise perating costs.
- Drive the commercial framework for pricing that the company works within to ensure margins are achieved and ultimately profitability.
- Assist with pricing structures of products to ensure business goals are achieved.
Key Skills:
- Strong accounting skills and experience, including management of the general ledger, journal entries, payroll, payables, and balance sheet.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate and lead high-performing teams coupled with strong organizational skills.
- Excellent analytical, logical, and problem-solving skills with the ability to make decisions based on accurate and timely analysis.
- A self-starter and exceptionally high "ownership-mentality.
- Previously built and operated customer financial products and experience in managing credit operations.
- Experience in optimizing corporate structures, governance and tax.
Qualifications:
- A minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in commercially focused financial management role.
- An understanding of the Agricultural Sector would be an advantage.