Finance Manager

JOB ADVERT

Workforce Recruitment Services seeks to recruit for the following position.

FINANCE MANAGER

Fundamental Purpose:

 The Position has three primary responsibilities;

• Provide financial assistance and operating expenses during the implementation phase and ensure compliance with local regulations, corporate guidelines, and budgeted costs.
• Responsible for all financial, reporting, controlling, and accounting aspects of the company. Supports executive management by providing relevant information through high-quality and timely reports and ensuring compliance with local regulations and operating guidelines.
• Ensure consistency in financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting processes and specific project business models. Participate in overall tax optimization.

Key Accountabilities

• Build, implement, and run a practical finance function to ensure efficient daily support to the organization.
• Guarantee and ensure implementation and follow-up of internal and external accounting standards, group policies, and tax rules. Establish financial statements in line with standards (both statutory and management financial statements).
• In charge of all internal controlling aspects and integrity of business and financial processes.
• Monitor, review, and assess financial performance. Analyse and explain monthly results and variances with the budget. Propose and implement corrective actions to achieve and exceed approved targets.
• Interact with customers, suppliers, external auditors, banks, tax authorities, and various entities (chamber of commerce, associations)
• Operational contact and responsible for liaising with auditors, external financial bodies such as court auditors, regulatory bodies, and any other relevant partners and authorities.
• Explore and evaluate options and implement initiatives to improve finance performance continually
• In charge of implementing, running, and supervising customer invoicing as per customer contractual requirements, cash monitoring, cash collection, and cash optimization. Plan financing needs and liaise with the company’s headquarters
• Ensure compliance with fiscal requirements. Propose relevant processes/actions for tax optimization.
• Establish accurate budget, forecast, financial simulations and specific analyses and reports in consultation with the relevant executive team members. Coordinate locally with functional and cost center heads to establish a realistic budget and liaise with the headquarters.
• Responsible for timely collection of receivables and for payables
• Ensure timely and accurate, weekly monthly, quarterly and annual reporting to management.
• Participate to negotiation with suppliers.
• Ensure information dissemination by timely providing high-quality returns and reports to management and, if needed, the other departments.
• The FM is in charge of implementing and maintaining a Score Card outlining the financial performance of the company

Knowledge and Skills:

• Experienced finance manager with at least five years’ experience in finance and controlling. Good interpersonal skills
• High level of integrity and discretion
• Performance oriented
• Excellent analytical skills
• Hands-on, business awareness and customer-oriented
• Languages: Very good level of English on top of the local language
• Talent for problem-solving
• Good knowledge of the country’s tax system
• Good communication skills
• Good managerial skills
• Big picture thinking capacity
• Knowledge of an ERP (SAP) is a plusMode of Application:

Suitable candidates are required to send their Applications & Curriculum Vitae to   applications2.workforce@gmail.com OR deliver them by hand to Workforce Recruitment Services offices, New Naperi, Next to Joy Radio, Blantyre, OR Bingu Stadium Corporate Box E4, Lilongwe by Friday 19^{th April, 2024.}

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.