Financial Controller at 21Search Limited

Job Description

• Our client is seeking a Financial Controller who will be responsible for providing strategic financial guidance to support the group's growth and profitability.
• The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the group’s treasury, financial planning, and reporting, financing needs, and managing the Bills, Collections and Receivables.

Job Description
The successful Associate will be responsible for:

• Providing world-class financial control for the Group, its Businesses and Projects (altogether, the Group).
• Expertly manage the Group’s book-keeping and financial reporting functions.
• Forecasting, preparing, presenting and implementing workable expenditure budgets for the Group on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual and other longer term periodic bases.
• Ensuring a world-class procurement (including vendors registration and vetting) process is in place in the Group and see to the strict implementation of the process.
• Facilitating timely and auditable payments in the Group, particularly using the Group’s proprietary app which all personnel and vendors must be signed on.
• Practically managing the receivables pool of the Group, by expertly ensuring that sufficient new bills are generated to enter into the pool and sufficient older bills are collected to avoid bad debts.
• Managing receivables (trade credits), expectations and the cost-of-service delivery and in this regard, appoint and work with debt recovery agents to ultimately collect doubtful and or bad debts of the Group.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field
• 7+ years of experience in Finance role, preferably senior role
• Professional certification will be an added advantage
• Ability to engage and manage clients
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines