About this role
Strategic Finance Lead
Welcome2Africa International is a trade and investment facilitation company with a special focus on Nigeria’s Agricultural and Maritime Sector. We support investors, multinationals, and key stakeholders within and outside Africa to advance their trade and investment goals, by providing an array of services and programs.
Strategic Finance Lead
- Job Type Full Time
- Qualification BA/BSc/HND , Professional Certificate
- Experience 4 - 5 years
- Location Abuja
- Job Field Finance / Accounting / Audit
- Salary Range ₦500,000 - ₦750,000/month
Reports to : Founder and Group Chief Executive Officer
Works closely with : Strategic Finance Officer (direct report); entity heads; Legal; the Board; investors, lenders and auditors
Base : Abuja, with a group-wide and international remit
WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS
Welcome2Africa has grown quickly, and its finances now span several entities, several jurisdictions and very different business models: event income at W2A Connect, commodity transactions at W2A Trade, advisory fees and lending at W2A Impact Capital, and grant-funded programmes at group level. The Group CEO needs one consolidated, trustworthy view of all of it on demand, and investors considering the holding company need the same.
This role builds that view and then uses it. You will be the financial mind beside the Group CEO: forecasting cash through trade cycles, bringing order to the group's liabilities, moving our funding from short-term facilities to institutional capital, and standing behind the numbers in every investor conversation. No mandate should proceed to execution until Finance has validated its margin, and you will own that gate. Done well, this role is what allows the rest of the group to scale with confidence.
WHAT YOU WILL OWN
- Set the group's financial strategy with the Group CEO, and translate it into budgets, targets and capital plans for each entity.
- Build a consolidated financial view across all entities, with rolling forecasts and a cash-flow model that anticipates the working-capital demands of trade cycles.
- Take ownership of the group's debts and liabilities: establish a complete register, agree settlement plans, manage creditor relationships, and shift funding towards longer-tenor institutional financing.
- Validate margins and commercial terms before any mandate or trade transaction moves to execution, and track margin through to completion.
- Build the financial models behind the holding company capital raise, entity business plans and the deals the group structures.
- Support investor relations: prepare financial information for investor materials and data rooms, respond to due diligence, an