Finance Manager East Africa

Position Designation: Finance Manager

Function: Finance

Role & responsibilities

• Oversee and lead annual budgeting and planning process; administer and review all financial plans and budgets; monitor progress and changes and keep senior leadership team abreast of the organizations financial status.
• Liaise with and provide support to HODs regarding departmental budgets, expenditures and financial reporting, this includes monitoring the budget implementation and advice on reallocation of funds when/where necessary.
• Provide financial advice and support to enable sound business decisions. This includes ensuring that financial practices are in line with all statutory legislation and regulations as well as group guidelines.
• Monthly Management reporting with detailed analysis along with comparison with prior Rolling Estimate, Annual Business Plan and Previous Year.
• Prepare and participate in quarterly review meetings of the Group
• Prepare Board Meeting documents and the circulation of the same to all the board members one week prior to the meeting; Participate meaningfully in the Board meeting
• Defend Tax Cases, Monitory on real time basis, Liaise and engage with Lawyers and tax consultants, do and/or accurately verify translations, prepare documentation, record keeping in Paper and digital form, attend hearings, and be accountable to ensure compliance
• Accountable for Records keeping in paper form and as agreed on Digital form, Data Backup of Navision/ERP and all finance computers, and one time project to index, and records management of past records and Archive room.

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