Group Finance Manager

• The position is based in Juba South Sudan
• The expatriation package applies only to the selected candidate, not to their family.
• The contract type is a permanent contract.

Introduction

A diversified and fast-growing group of companies is seeking to recruit a highly experienced
Group Finance Manager (GFM)
. The successful candidate will oversee the entire finance function across multiple subsidiaries, ensuring financial integrity, compliance, and strategic alignment with the Group's growth objectives.

Porpose of the job

The main purpose of this role is to plan, coordinate, and control the Group Finance function including ensuring that all assets and liabilities of the Group are properly accounted, reconciled and financial reports are properly consolidated in line with group policies and procedures.You shall be responsible for effective management of the Finance Function with a tight focus on ensuring the working capital position of the Group supports the strong growth of the Group.

Key activities

This important role will involve among other responsibilities the following:

• Participate in the development and review of finance policies, procedures, and guidelines for the Group and ensure that finance activities are done in line with these.
• Analyse the Group's financial statements and submit report (in good time) to the Group Management Committee (GMC) and all relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure timely preparation and distribution of the Group financial and management accounting reports to all concerned stakeholders.
• Ensure the Group has up to date and a standardized chart of accounts.
• Oversee the preparation and/or review of financial analysis related to cash flow projections/expenditure among others for appropriate actions.
• Ensure the Group tax obligations are carefully analyzed and paid on a timely basis.
• Manage and approve payments within discretionary limits.
• Effectively manage payments to external suppliers of goods and services.
• Interact with banks with regard to credit facilities, loans, overdrafts, letters of credit, intra-group transfers, overseas transfers, etc.
• Manage and effectively guide utilization of company funds to secure a strong working capital position for the Group.
• Take responsibility for the accuracy of the non-current assets register for the Group and all subsidiaries.
• Close all internal audit queries for the Group and her subsidiaries.
• Work with Subsidiary Finance Managers to come up with a strong financial control environment.
• Oversee the establishment of finance and accounting controls and activities for all Group subsidiaries.
• Negotiate with banks for funding of any new investments made by the Group and ensure the Group is able to secure the best funding rates in the market.
• Ensure all regulatory renewals are paid to the relevant authorities in good time to avoid penalties for late payments.
• Identify, develop, deploy and retain talented staff including completing performance appraisals effectively and on time in accordance with the established performance management procedures.
• Develop accountability structures, oversee periodic reporting, and monitor the performance indicators for finance and accounts unit.
• Prepare and finalise subsidiary budgets, departmental budget and Group master budget.
• Take responsibility of effectively managing cost within approved budgets.
• Identification of doubtful debts, discounts, and write-off's.
• Manage annual audits with external auditors in order to achieve timely completion of annual audits.
• Sign off account payable reconciliation statements on a monthly basis.
• Develop robust MIS for GMC review.
• Review MIS reports of other Group departments and Group subsidiaries.
• Control cheque books, cash balance and mobile money balances on phones and obtain all cheques signed by cheque signing authorities and released only to authorised parties.
• Arrange, and develop a report for management review and noting, for detailed count and verification of trading stocks/held for sale assets/current assets on a monthly basis and non-current assets on a yearly basis.

Effectively carry out any other duties as will be assigned to you by the GMD, GCEO and GCOO.

Key attributes

This position requires someone who has the following attributes:

• Leadership – To be an effective GFM, one must have the necessary leadership and communication skills. They must give advice and counsel as well as provide a voice of reason. They will often be asked to lead group-wide transformation programs and must be able to translate detailed information into clear, concise, and accessible messaging. It goes without saying that creating a top talent pipeline to ensure the right people and leadership skills are in place within the finance function in every subsidiary will be critical.
• Operations skills – An effective GFM should possess a strong understanding of the Group's vision, mission, business model and awareness of the sectors the Group has invested in and be able to use this knowledge to provide an independent perspective and to constructively challenge the commercial and operations teams, ensuring that business decisions are grounded in solid data criteria. They must navigate complex data and provide analytics and predictive scenarios that drive action and decision-making. The GFM should also identify opportunities for top-line growth and drive profit improvement, not just through the traditional methods of cost control, but through examples such as product line/subsidiary profitability analysis and benchmarking against industry peers.
• Controls and risk management skills – In an increasingly global and volatile environment with additional regulatory burdens, it will often fall to the GFM to ensure adequate assessment and mitigation of risk, and compliance with applicable regulatory or other legal requirements. They must understand risk through a commercial as well as a financial lens. Therefore, the GFM will need to manage risk as the business executes on its strategies and initiatives as well as maintain a strong internal controls environment and financial reporting processes.
• Strategy and strategic mindset – A successful GFM must be able to understand and support strategy development and assist in enabling its execution. The GFM will play a role in prioritizing and ensuring the strategy can be funded. The GFM finance skillset will be required to build predictive models, analyze macroeconomic trends, and incorporate non-financial information in decision making. This will include communicating the strategy and progress against it to external stakeholders (like financiers) and Group Directors.

QUALIFICATIONS

• A member of a recognized professional body of Accountants with at least 10 years post qualification experience.
• University Degree from a recognized university.
• ACCA or CPA or any related professional qualification is required.
• Practical experience in high demanding environment of multiple subsidiaries in different sectors of the economy and countries will be necessary.