Head, Finance and Admin at Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company

Role Purpose

• The Head, Finance and Administrative Services is responsible for managing financial operations, budgeting, compliance, and reporting, while ensuring efficient administration across HR, employee relations, welfare, and facility management.
• The role supports operational effectiveness through sound financial oversight, policy adherence, and proactive employee engagement, in line with Quality Management and Occupational Health & Safety standards.

Role Accountabilities
Finance:

• Provide inputs for annual budgeting.
• Examine and accord financial vetting for proposals having financial implications.
• Ensure compliance of financial audit.
• Responsible for all financial accounting and supervises compilation for unit and undertakings.
• Supervise inter unit account settlements.
• Supervise maintenance of various accounts & registers.
• Settlement of all staff claims, external claims, time bound tax related claims under the limits specified.
• Ensure proper reconciliation of various payment channels at business unit.
• Monitors compilation of MIS, PRT & other reports.
• Maintain and update sub ledger capturing the financial transactions appropriately.

Administration:

• Ensuring compliance to HR policies and labor laws.
• Initiate the performance appraisal report.
• Maintaining job descriptions and training related records.
• Oversee preparation of papers for claims of retired employees.
• Ensuring maintenance of discipline, attendance, highlighting employee concerns at the assigned locations.
• Initiating disciplinary proceeding of employees in corruption cases.
• Oversee the legal activities and court cases related to employees.
• Taking up the case of employee complaint/ grievance for redressal.
• Ensuring free flow of communication upward to resolve employee grievances at the earliest opportunity.
• Conducting surveys on employee engagement employee satisfaction.
• Participating in the welfare activities for the employees.
• Looking into security matters, office maintenance, office furniture maintenance etc.
• Takes responsibility for compliance with all Quality Management System /Operation Health & System related activities in the department as documented in the departmental operations manual, risk assessment register and other relevant documents.
• Carry out any other duties as requested by the Business Manager.

Minimum Requirements

• Must possess a First Degree in Commercial or Social Science discipline.
• Minimum 10+ years relevant work experience.
• Must be a Chartered Accountant (ACA/ ACCA).