Finance Executive at ConnectRail Service Limited

Details:

Our business is at the cutting edge of leveraging rail and in-land waterways in transporting heavy-lift goods by taking the pressure off the road network. Our vision is to build a Pan African logistics business committed to unlocking the challenge of moving goods across the continent. We have a full-time role based in our office in Yaba for a financial analyst.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

The Finance Analyst is an integral member of our strategic management team covering a range of responsibilities including:

Management Accounting

• Oversee cash management/reconciliation, financial reporting and balance sheet management.
• Ensure that policies and procedures (internal controls) are in place to provide reasonable assurance that the company assets are protected
• Ensure that company financial records, under responsibility, are maintained in compliance with company policies.
• Review monthly/quarterly account reconciliations and other documents to ensure compliance.
• Establish accounting operational strategies by working with engineering team, identifying requirement gaps, automating processes, and implementing updates to internal tools.
• Coordinate work relating to both internal and external audits in the periodic review of the company financial records.

Business Analysis & Finance Modeling

• Create Accurate financial Forecasts for the business while managing clear, controlled Reporting and Analysis
• Participates in financial planning, budgeting and forecasting processes for the business
• Provides in-depth analysis on variances to plan, forecast, and prior year
• Drives business forecasting process through collaboration across the business
• Provides risk analysis for contingency planning
• Provides insightful and competitive analytics that anticipate change and drive decision making
• Apply external perspective and maintain knowledge of the business’s competitive environment, market conditions, customers, and profit drivers.
• Provide effective and timely financial information, thoughtful business insights/analytics and business performance evaluations to ensure that Business leaders are effective in creating and executing the business segment’s strategy and operating plan.

Corporate Finance & Investor Engagement

Development and maintenance of financial models, controls, and documentation relevant to the on-going project financing activities of the business

Provision of modelling and analytical support for discussions with various stakeholders:

• Internal (e.g. workstreams, Executive Management Team); and
• External (e.g. financial advisors, shareholders, banks, Export Credit Agencies, Infrastructure Projects financiers Authority, Government Institutions)
• Assistance with all other items of project financing, incl. contract analysis, insurance, accounting and tax, and shareholder support
• Assistance with handling both capital raising and due diligence analysis by external stakeholders

Required Skills

Within your skills and qualifications, you will…

• Be proud of your post-secondary diploma or degree in accounting, finance or business and even more proud of your accounting designation (CIMA, ACA, ACCA,CFA )
• Have a minimum of five (5) years’ of relevant experience
• Be an expert user with Excel and other MicroSoft Office products
• Have a sound knowledge of management accounting principles and financial accounting principles (IFRS)
• Be overly analytical and detail orientated when it comes to financial data
• Openly share your knowledge with the team
• Inherently demonstrate a high level of integrity and be trustworthy
• Be more than approachable with your superior interpersonal skills
• Innately demonstrate superior written and verbal communication skills
• Use your courage to take action in difficult and challenging situations and deal with uncertainty