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.