The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the Financial Controller by:
- Ensuring accurate and timely financial reports and interpretations of results are submitted to the Board of Senior Management relating to all areas of business functions for management meeting;
- Setting internal controls and implementing financial controls in line with relevant legislation from governing bodies;
- Performing budgeting and investigations and providing analysis of variances against budgets;
- Working closely with the Risk and Compliance department to mitigate fraudulent or suspicious transactions;
- Reviewing ICS documents written into licensing and governing body material to ensure compliance with regulators;
- Writing business documents relating to financial reporting and analysis for submission to the Board of Senior Management.
- Performing Treasury functions as necessary;
- Performing financial analysis for evaluation and monitoring of business performance;
- Preparing financial statements of group companies;
- Monitoring daily accounting functions for the headquarter and retails shops;
- Supporting initiatives to improve profitability;
- Managing and training of Finance staff;
- Assisting the HR team with the payroll function;
- Liaised with bankers, lawyers, auditors and regulatory authorities as required;
- Handling other ad-hoc assignments
Professional expertise
The successful candidate will possess the following:
- Degree educated in a Financially related discipline;
- ACCA post qualified with 3+ years’ worth of commercial experience;
- Have experience of acquisition and be able to deal with all the regulatory tasks needed for this;
- Be experienced dealing with multiple currencies;
- Have previous forward thinking treasury experience;
- Experience of implementing a credit policy would be advantageous;
- Excellent communication skills are a must as are a rigorous eye for detail.
