Finance Director, Education Social Enterprise, Ghana #334
- Recruiter
- Accounting for International Development
- Location
- Ghana, Africa
- Salary
- c $65,000 + benefits
- Posted
- 15 Sep 2020
- Closes
- 28 Sep 2020
- Job role
- Finance director, Financial controller
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Experience level
- Director
Finance Director, Education Social Enterprise, Ghana #334
Our partner offers children and youth from low income families, access to quality, affordable education. As they look to move from a start-up to a growth stage social enterprise, they are seeking a dynamic Finance Director to develop a resilient, multi-country finance function. This is a newly created role, and will be an interesting position for someone willing to be hands on, whilst offering strategic oversight and support.
Responsibilities
- Ensure the integrity of the accounting and financial management systems, oversight of the transaction processes, preparation of the year-end financial statements and the annual audit, and ensuring that the organisation meets all its statutory and regulatory compliance.
- Review and strengthen the control environment, ensuring that accounting processes are understood and adhered to across the organisation.
- Establish finance systems and teams in new locations.
- Lead on organisational budget creation, developing and strengthening of budget monitoring, reporting and cashflow forecasting and reports.
- Drive on financial planning, offering the senior leadership analysis and advice on new business and growth opportunities.
- Work with senior leadership in designing the fundraising strategy (grants and investments), prepare the financial models and support presentations made to funders/investors.
- Business partnering and management of external stakeholder relationships – including investors, banks, suppliers and auditors.
- Oversight of the finance staff, responsible for hiring and retaining a qualified team.
Person Specification
- Senior finance professional, with an undergraduate degree and accounting qualification, and demonstrable experience of running the finance function of a fast growing small- to medium-sized enterprise (preferably in a start-up environment), including of developing controls, accounting processes and financial management tools.
- Experience of corporate finance & fund accounting.
- Excellent proficiency in written and verbal English
- Strong problem solver, flexible and able to handle a large and varied volume of work and responsibilities maturely
- Excellent relationship management skills, and ability to deal with stakeholders diplomatically and with tact.
- Passion for the education sector.
- Experience of working in Africa is desirable.
Salary c. $65,000, depending on experience.
For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below.