Finance Officer at Lily Hospitals Limited

Job Summary

The finance officer provides support to the Chief Financial Officer (or Acting) for some critical activities a little out of the general accounts office. The role is responsible for the review and correspondences with the tax consultant/tax office, corporate finance documentations as well as supporting the credit control team drive debts.

Also, all other tasks as may be assigned by the Acting CFO/CFO.

Key Result Areas (KRA)

The key result areas of this role are:

• Policy Development and Implementation
• Liaise with bankers on various corporate finance documentations
• Liaise with tax consultants/tax authorities on tax matters concerning the group and do a first line review of tax assessments.
• Reconciliation of the balance sheets items and correction of identified errors.
• Support the general accounts team to ensure prompt rendering of the monthly management reports and all other reports as may be required for management decision making.
• Be involved in various forms of internal and external audits and ensure prompt close-out of all internal and external audit queries.
• Provide support to the finance team in terms of financial analysis.
• Be involved in credit control activities by providing the required supports in terms of documentations and debt drive activities.

Budget Preparation and Monitoring

• Gather relevant data from all business units to aid the preparation of the organization’s annual budget.
• Engage the SBU leads on departmental performance and areas finance can support
• Any other duties assigned by the CFO/Ag CFO.

The Person

• Minimum academic qualification of a Bachelors Degree (B.Sc.) in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics or any related degree.
• 2 to 3 years relevant work experience preferably in the Health sector or in a comparable organization.
• Membership of professional finance and accounting bodies such as ICAN, ACA, ACCA is an added advantage.
• Familiarity and aptitude with working with accounting software such as Peachtree, SAGE etc
• High working Knowledge of the Microsoft office package is required especially with spreadsheet software (Excel).
• Good knowledge of accounting and financial concepts and practices
• Exceptional oral, written and presentation skills are required for this role
• Excellent communication and people management skills
• Excellent customer service.