Lead, Finance at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job Summary

• The role incumbent will be responsible for providing strategic leadership on the overall financial administration of the organisation’s resources to increase revenue whilst complying with relevant regulatory authorities.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Engage executive management and the appropriate board committee to develop short, medium, and long-term financial plans and projections.
• Establish individual and department goals and define performance evaluation metrics against those goals.
• Develop, interpret and implement accounting policy and procedures to ensure corporate and relevant regulatory reporting requirements are met.
• Establish the appropriate internal control environment across the organisation’s operations to safeguard the assets of the organisation and meet government or contractor requirements.
• Develop and utilise financial models and activity-based financial analysis to provide a basis for investment decisions and business planning.
• Develop and maintain a system of appropriate financial policies, procedures and controls to ensure efficient financial management.
• Direct and control the efforts of the finance team to ensure timely and accurate General Ledger, department financial statements, and management reports.
• Review and recommend changes to the general ledger portion of the chart of accounts to assure proper classification of accounts.
• Review and recommend changes to management reports generated by the general ledger and other accounting systems.
• Review periodic financial reports submitted by team and present report to management.
• Lead the preparation of the organisation’s financial reports and statutory reporting process.
• Oversee the preparation of regular financial accounts and management accounts.
• Oversee third-party payments to ensure that such payments are in accordance with service level agreements.
• Liaise with Tax Authorities, Auditors and other Regulatory bodies as regards preparation and filing of the Audited Financials and other Tax related matters.
• Ensure prompt remittance and various statutory deduction i.e VAT, PAYE, CIT, Pension Fund etc.
• Oversee the preparation and communication of timely, accurate, and useful financial and management reports for investors/lending institutions and management on a periodic and /or ad-hoc basis.
• Liaise with statutory auditors to discuss and resolve queries as they arise to ensure seamless audit exercise.
• Manage organisation’s treasury assets to achieve optimal sourcing, application and growth of funds.

Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or any related discipline
• Relevant professional certifications e.g. Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Association of Certified and Chartered Accountants (ACCA) or its equivalent 
• Minimum of 8 years’ relevant experience; with at least 2 years at a managerial level
• Experience of statutory financial reporting requirements and knowledge of GAAP, IFRS.