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Chief Financial Officer

Santus Consulting
CBD Abuja (FCT) Posted Nov 3, 2026
On-siteNGN 1,500,000 - 2,500,000 / year

About this role

Role Overview

  • The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is a strategic leadership position responsible for establishing and maintaining financial governance across a multi-entity Group, ensuring financial accuracy, strengthening internal controls, and facilitating access to external capital.
  • The CFO oversees the Group’s financial architecture, financial reporting, treasury, taxation, audit, capital structuring, and financial systems.
  • The role combines financial leadership, investment oversight, institutional credibility, and strategic capital management.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Governance and Reporting:

  • Ensure accurate, complete, and reliable financial records across the Group.
  • Oversee financial statements, IFRS consolidation, taxation, audit, valuation, provisions, impairments, and financial disclosures.
  • Certify financial statements and representations made to auditors, lenders, and regulators.
  • Establish financial reporting standards, controls, and accountability frameworks.

Financial Systems and Internal Controls:

  • Govern the Group’s accounting and audit systems, ensuring appropriate calibration, acceptance, oversight, and independent verification.
  • Establish and maintain finance processes, policies, manuals, and control frameworks.
  • Ensure payment controls, dual authorisation, cash visibility, and liquidity management.
  • Maintain a weekly cash position and rolling thirteen-week cash forecast.

Capital Raising and Financing:

  • Develop and implement the Group’s capital and financing architecture.
  • Lead engagement with banks, development finance institutions, and other financing partners.
  • Structure external financing, manage lender requirements, covenants, and financing relationships.
  • Establish a Group Financing Protocol to ensure efficient access to capital.
  • Ensure financing decisions are supported by credible financial records and appropriate governance.

Investment and Capital Allocation:

  • Participate as a voting member of the Investment Committee.
  • Review investment proposals, financial models, capital plans, valuations, and investment returns.
  • Establish financial appraisal standards and hurdle rates.
  • Assess capital releases against approved conditions.
  • Monitor portfolio performance, liquidity, concentration, and capital efficiency.

Stakeholder and Regulatory Engagement:

  • Maintain relationships with auditors, banks, regulators, revenue authorities, and development finance institutions.
  • Represent the Group in financial, regulatory, tax, and financing engagements.
  • Ensure compliance with applicable financial reporting, taxation, and regulatory requirements.
  • Maintain institutional relationships and records under the Group’s name.

Leadership and Financial Partnership:

  • Lead the Finance Department and establish a function that operates effectively and independently.
  • Set financial standards for subsidiary finance officers and oversee reporting across the Group.
  • Partner with investment directors on financial modelling, valuations, financing, and capital plans.
  • Provide independent financial judgement and challenge decisions where financial integrity or controls are at risk.

Key Requirements

  • Membership in good standing of ICAN or ANAN.
  • Current registration with the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN).
  • Experience managing multi-entity IFRS consolidation, including complex group accounting, deferred tax, financial instruments, and leases.
  • Proven experience establishing a finance function to audit readiness or remediating a qualified audit opinion.
  • Demonstrable experience raising external capital, from initial engagement through drawdown, and managing financing covenants.
  • Experience representing organisations before revenue authorities during audits or disputes.
  • Knowledge of Nigerian taxation, including transfer pricing and electronic invoicing.
  • Experience participating in investment committees or board-level capital allocation decisions.
  • Treasury experience, including managing currency-related financial risks.

Remuneration

N1,500,000.00 - N2,500,000.00 Gross (90 Days Probationary).

Application Closing Date

8th November, 2026.

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