Strategic Finance Lead

Strategic Finance Lead

Overview

Welcome2Africa International is seeking a Strategic Finance Lead to oversee the group's financial strategy, consolidate financial reporting across multiple entities, manage cash flow and liabilities, and support capital raising and investor relations.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• Manage the group's debts and liabilities by establishing a complete register, agreeing on settlement plans, managing creditor relationships, and shifting funding towards longer-tenor institutional financing.
• Validate margins and commercial terms before any mandate or trade transaction proceeds to execution, and track margins through to completion.
• Develop financial models for the holding company's capital raise, entity business plans, and structured deals.
• Support investor relations by preparing financial information for investor materials and data rooms, responding to due diligence requests, and reporting to shareholders.
• Produce monthly management accounts and concise financial reports for the Group CEO and Board, including a rolling 90-day revenue forecast.
• Design financial controls for a multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction group, including approval workflows, revenue assurance, inter-company cross-charges, and grant accounting.
• Lead and develop the Strategic Finance Officer.
• Manage relationships with auditors, tax advisers, and banks.

Requirements

• Professional accounting or finance qualification, such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA, or an equivalent qualification.
• Substantial experience in strategic finance, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), or corporate finance.
• Strong financial modelling skills and experience supporting a capital raise or investor due diligence.
• Experience in a multi-entity or cross-border business.
• Exposure to commodity trade, trade finance, or investment advisory is a strong advantage.
• Confidence in communicating financial findings to leadership and the judgement to recommend practical solutions.
• A builder's mindset, with the ability to create structure and order in a developing organisation.

Application Closing Date

30th October, 2026