Ongoing Recruitment at Fosad Consulting Limited

The role of a Head: Corporate Finance is to maximize bottom line opportunities for the business. The role will be involved in identifying and securing merger and acquisition deals, managing and investing large monetary funds, and buying and selling financial products etc. The role steers the financial direction of the business, and undertakes all strategic financial planning, reporting to stakeholders and all aspects of large transactions for the organization’s business, including due diligence.

Other Responsibilities:

• Advise on how to meet targets and create investment capital
• Provide investment advice, tactics and recommendations
• Generating finance from shares and loans
• Use financial modeling to predict outcomes
• Support in targeting and winning business
• Negotiate and structure financial details
• Liaise with all parties involved in transactions and assist with negotiations
• Prepare legal documents and prospectuses
• Assess and predict financial risks and returns
• Liaise with accountants, lawyers, financial experts and regulatory bodies
• Contribute to competitive bid proposals and formal presentations
• Financial analysis related to transactions
• Financial modeling and scenario analysis
• Drafting documentation with a compelling rationale to generate interest in funding proposals, companies for sale, project finance opportunities
• Exposure to deal negotiations
• Client-facing interaction with senior decision-making executives
• Working directly with the senior management team on deals
• Developing key skills related to the valuation of companies

• A first degree in Accounting or Finance
• M.Sc or MBA will be an added advantage
• Professional Qualification required – ACA, ACCA, CFA
• Experience within Corporate finance is essential
• Strong academic record/ Proven track record
• Experience at Board level
• Appetite to learn new skills in a challenging and supportive environment

• Assist the CEO/ MD in setting the strategic direction for the organization with the objective of meeting organizational vision, mission and objectives. Formulates, develops the divisional strategy and ensures alignment with the overall corporate strategy
• Prepare the annual business plans and operating and capital expenditure budgets for the department, ensuring that adequate funding provision is made for all activities.
• Monitors expenditure against approved levels on a regular basis and investigates and justifies significant variances to ensure effective performance and cost control.
• Establish and builds relationship with customers and periodically organizes customer focus meetings
• Conceptualize and introduce value added customer services for all categories of customers
• Work with the team for maintaining highest level of customer relationship with the organizations key accounts.
• Develop and maintain effective communications with new and existing customers, amend/ Review / negotiate contracts with the existing consumers
• Execute Bulk Supply agreements with the Centralized Bulk consumers
• Lead and coach the team to enable them to present a consistent approach to customers and prospects.
• Develop and direct the implementation of commercial policies, identify new market opportunities,
• to ensure the effective development and promotion of the company’s services and achievement of
• its business objectives
• Supervise the Revenue and Performance monitoring activities carried out for all categories of consumers and provide strategic MIS to the management to take decisions
• Performance monitoring of the departments on a monthly basis and provide data on KPIs to the
• Corporate Monitoring Group
• Monitor department’s performance through Key Performance Measures.
• Ensure provision of adequate resources for various activities of the department
• Identify training needs of officials and liaise with the HR department to develop appropriate development and remedial interventions to address skills and knowledge gaps
• Other Administrative responsibilities
• Carry out any other duties as requested by the MD/ CEO and/ Head Department of the company

Qualifications

• Master’s / Bachelor’s degree in related engineering field with at least 25 years of experience;
• Experience should be broad-based and include exposure to the generation and transmission function as well as holding a senior position in the distribution function.

Technical Competencies

• Project Management

Behavioral Competencies

• Strategic thinking skills
• Coordination skills
• Commercial insight
• Openness to change

To efficiently provide the legal services required by the organization of Companies, thereby promoting communication, anticipating risks, reducing liabilities, preventing litigation, defending corporate interests and ensuring compliance with laws and regulations, whilst reducing costs of external counsel.

Other Responsibilities:

• Provision of legal advice and guidance in all matters concerning the legal structure and the laws and regulations governing the Group, its staff and the conduct of its operations
• Assumption of the primary responsibility for the operation of the Legal Department and coordination, supervision and development of other lawyers in the Legal Department
• Provision of legal advice and assistance in the drafting and negotiation of the Group’s commercial agreements
• Provision of legal advice on structuring of new ventures
• Prevention and when necessary, defense and settlement of disputes and litigation involving the Group and liaison with and direction of external counsel in this regard
• Advise and proffer legal opinions to management regarding the legal implications of legal and regulatory
• Changes impacting the Group’s business
• Providing legal advice and support on personnel matters, to include employee grievances and claims.
• Advising the Group on the corporate structure, compliance with necessary formalities and company law.

• A minimum of Bachelors degree in Law
• LLM can be an added advantage
• The ideal candidate should have a minimum of 16 years post call experience, 5 of which must be core experience in senior role in a law firm or commercial oil and gas environment
• Demonstrated planning and organizational skills, including the ability to anticipate tasks, set priorities, meet deadlines, and function smoothly under strict deadlines and shifting priorities
• Ability to think strategically and to envision and balance
• Good team spirit
• Excellent business judgment and ability to apply business solutions to legal problems