Head of Finance at IDYHA Capital

Description

• The Head of Finance role is critical to stabilising cash flow, improving capital efficiency, strengthening reporting and accountability, and supporting sustainable, profitable growth.

Role Purpose

• The Head of Finance will be the senior Manager responsible for financial stewardship, performance management, and capital discipline across the business units. The role combines hands-on financial control with strategic leadership, ensuring that Bature Brewery operates within clear financial parameters while building the systems, reporting, and governance required for scale.

The HOF will play a central role in:

• Embedding KPI-led management and scorecard discipline
• Supporting a structured monthly performance and board reporting cycle
• Managing liquidity, working capital, and creditor exposure
• Supporting equity and debt investment processes
• Leading the receivable management process
• Enabling informed, data-driven decision-making across the executive team

Key Responsibilities
Financial Strategy & Executive Partnership:

• Act as a core strategic partner to the CEO, contributing to business strategy, capital planning, and long-term sustainability.
• Translate strategic objectives into clear financial plans, constraints, and performance targets.
• Provide independent financial judgement and challenge to executive and operational decisions.
• Support scenario planning and stress-testing to guide decisions under different growth and liquidity conditions.

Governance, Reporting & Performance Management:

• Own the financial component of the company’s governance framework, ensuring clarity, discipline, and transparency.

Lead the development and maintenance of:

• Executive scorecards
• Departmental KPIs
• Monthly performance dashboards covering financial and operational metrics

Drive a robust monthly performance meeting cadence, ensuring:

• Accurate, timely reporting
• Clear variance analysis versus budget, prior periods, and targets
• Action-oriented insights rather than backward-looking reporting
• Prepare board-level and shareholder-level financial reporting aligned to agreed governance standards.

Budgeting, Forecasting & Cash Management:

• Lead annual budgeting and rolling forecasting processes, aligned to agreed strategic priorities and capacity constraints.

Maintain tight control over:

• Cash flow and liquidity
• Working capital (receivables, payables, inventory)
• Short-term and medium-term cash runway
• Establish and monitor minimum liquidity thresholds and early-warning indicators.
• Ensure financial discipline across departments while enabling commercial flexibility where justified.

Operational Finance & Cost Control:

• Oversee all finance operations, including accounting, payroll, AP/AR, tax, compliance, and audit processes.
• Strengthen internal controls and financial procedures appropriate to a growing FMCG and hospitality business.

Work closely with Operations, Production, Sales, and F&B teams to:

• Improve margin visibility by product, channel, and venue
• Drive cost efficiency without undermining quality or growth
• Support pricing, promotions, and investment decisions with robust financial analysis

Multi-Revenue Stream & Commercial Finance:
Provide financial oversight across diverse revenue streams, including:

• Brewery production and wholesale distribution
• Taprooms and hospitality venues

Events, partnerships, and brand-led initiatives

• Ensure clear P&L visibility by business line, venue, and channel.
• Support commercial teams with financial insight on customer profitability, contract terms, credit risk, and growth opportunities.

Capital, Investors & External Stakeholders:

• Lead financial preparation and execution for equity raises, debt financing, and investor engagement.
• Support valuation analysis, investment structures, and use-of-funds discipline.

Act as primary finance interface with:

• Investors and shareholders
• Banks and lenders
• Auditors, tax advisers, and regulators

Ensure capital is deployed in line with agreed priorities, milestones, and governance approvals.

Leadership & Team Development:

• Build and lead a capable finance function suited to a multi-site, multi-revenue FMCG and hospitality business.
• Develop finance team members to move beyond bookkeeping into analysis, insight, and business partnering.
• Foster a culture of accountability, clarity, and continuous improvement within the finance function.

Experience & Qualifications
Essential:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related discipline.
• Senior finance leadership experience (typically 10+ years), Finance Manager /Director, or equivalent role.
• Strong background in FMCG, food & beverage, brewery, or hospitality-led businesses.
• Proven experience managing multiple revenue streams and complex operating models.
• Strong Communication skills ( written and verbal )
• Demonstrated ability to operate in capital-constrained, fast-growing environments with high cash-flow sensitivity.
• Experience working with boards, investors, and external stakeholders will be a plus

Highly Desirable:

• Professional qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) and/or MBA.
• Experience supporting equity raises, restructures, or turnaround-adjacent environments.
• Hands-on experience with ERP and financial reporting systems suitable for scaling businesses.
• Exposure to African or emerging-market operating contexts.

Key Competencies & Attributes:

• Strong commercial and operational mindset
• High financial discipline combined with pragmatic decision-making
• Ability to simplify complexity and communicate clearly to non-finance leaders
• Comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution
• High integrity, independence of thought, and sound judgement
• Resilient, structured, and calm under pressure

What Success Looks Like in This Role:

• Improved cash flow predictability and liquidity discipline
• Clear, trusted monthly financial and KPI reporting across the business
• Stronger linkage between strategy, budgets, and execution
• Increased confidence from shareholders and external partners
• A finance function that enables growth rather than reacts to it