Senior finance executive at AKU in Lagos

Overview

• The Senior finance executive will be in charge of safeguarding the organization’s financial honesty and reliability, optimizing profit margin, and empowering long-term development.
• This position manages the precision of all financial processes, which includes income acknowledgment, cost attribution, and settlement of settlement accounts.
• The successful applicant will lead programs to prevent income leakage, strengthen internal regulates, and ensure transparent tracking of financial flows across banking and work collaboratively channels.
• As a key consultant to the Top management, Product, Engineering, and Business Units, the Senior finance executive will offer commercially grounded findings to assist analytics-based strategic judgment, risk risk reduction, and long-term budgeting.

Team lead & Development:

Build and head a top-performing finance team; train and formulate in-house skilled. Promote an environment that fosters financial discipline and responsibility cross-functional units.

Stakeholder engagement:

Show clear financial findings and status updates to board of directors, investors, and external participants.

Expertise:

• 7+ years of progressive finance executive guidance expertise, ideally in high-growth environments, financial technology, banking or payment solutions.
• Demonstrated expertise top financial planning, budgeting, and capital raising endeavors.
• In-depth understanding of accounting principles, finance reporting, tax rules, and adherence frameworks.
• Deep knowledge of operational indicators, unit economics, and SaaS / technology / product / in-store finance

Competencies:

• Robust logical and financial forecasting competencies.
• Outstanding bargain and stakeholder engagement capabilities.
• In-depth understanding of payment structure, transaction processing, and bank consolidation.
• Competence with finance resources and settlement operational structures.
• Cozy operating across cross-operational teams in high-growth and continuously adapting environments.