Finance Director

Job Summary

• Provide leadership, direction and management of the finance and accounting team.
• Provide strategic recommendations to the Board, CEO and members of the management team.
• Manage the processes for financial forecasting and budgets and oversee the preparation of all financial reporting in accordance with applicable reporting framework including that of IFRS.
• Advise on long-term business and financial planning.
• Provide the company and its subsidiary companies, country heads, departments heads with professional, accurate and timely financial information.
• Identify and alert senior management on adverse trends and variances to enable early decisions on corrective actions thereby mitigating losses.
• Establish and develop relations with senior management and external partners and stakeholders.
• Establish adequate financial control processes across group.
• Review all formal finance, HR and Finance IT related procedures.

Qualifications & Experience Required

• Recognised professional accountancy qualification such as ACCA, ACA, CPA or MBA in finance from a reputed institute.
• At least ten years post qualification experience in a leadership role and preferably in health care sector.
• Strong working knowledge of ERP systems.
• Strong working knowledge of MS office applications such as Excel, Access and Power Point.
• Fluent in oral and written English.
• Good analytical and presentation skills (Financial).

Personal Attributes Required

• Team working – ability to work cooperatively, across cultures and organizational boundaries to achieve shared goals. Ability to collaborate with subject specialists. Cooperating with team members.
• Interpersonal Communication – engage creatively and effectively with customers, stakeholders, and colleagues; practice a high degree of professional judgment and integrity; friendly and approachable; display inter-cultural competence; sensitive to customers and colleagues with special needs.
• Self-awareness – understand own emotions and triggers, and how they impact on own behaviours and/or the behaviour of others; understand own strengths and limitations.
• Flexibility – ability to adapt and work with a variety of situations, individuals and groups, being able to think on one’s feet, not become disconcerted by the unexpected, resilient.
• Ethically and socially responsible – perform duties honestly, conscientiously, reasonably and in good faith.
• Initiative and Entrepreneurship – contribute to improvements across the Group.