Finance Manager

**Background**:
The individual will be responsible for a portfolio of project companies and the supervision of an accounts assistant assigned to each project.

**You Will Be**:

- ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified
- Excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills to facilitate effective working relationships within the finance team and with the various external stakeholders including lenders, shareholders, suppliers, operations and local authorities
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail with intellect to both develop and challenge explanations and arguments
- Proactive in identifying and implementing process improvements

**Responsibilities**:
Management accounting
- Incorporation of purchase ledgers, sales ledgers, cash books and loan schedules into ETBs and reconciliation of ETBs to SUN Systems accounting package
- Maintenance of accruals & prepayments and amortisation workings as required
- Review of fixed asset portfolios
- Preparation of management account reports including analysis of actual versus budget
- Supervising the preparation and submission of VAT and CIS returns
- Supervising the preparation of purchase invoice and other non-supplier payments and issuing of invoices to customers
- Supervising the maintenance of cash books and loan schedules

Financial accounting
- Preparation of the statutory accounts for the year end audit
- Preparation of supporting documentation and working papers for the year end audit
- Liaising with the audit team during their fieldwork and thereafter with the audit manager
- Liaising with tax advisors in the preparation of corporation tax computations
- Liaising with the shareholders in their periodic analysis of investment return

Reporting
- Presentation of finance reports to shareholders at quarterly project board meetings
- Tracking and complying with project deliverables as dictated by loan facility agreements
- Maintenance of financial and operating models and preparation of budgets and cash flow forecasts

Cash and working capital management
- Monitoring cash and working capital to determine debt requirements for funding projects both for the short term and longer term
- Preparing loan utilisation requests and ensuring repayments of interest and principal are made as dictated by loan facility agreements
- Calculating semi-annual distributions to shareholders

Other
- Monitoring of derivative valuations and balance sheet position
- Dealing with ad-hoc queries from various stakeholders
- Monitoring controls and assessing financial risks

In our company values we aim for equity at all stages of the recruitment process, please let us know if we can do anything to make the process more accessible to you.