Vice President (VP), Finance Job at She Leads Africa

She Leads Africa is a digital media company for the modern, millennial African woman. With features in the Financial Times, BBC, CNN, Forbes and CNBC Africa, we’re creating the best digital content and offline events to help young African women build amazing careers and businesses, serve as community leaders and influencers, and eventually take over the world.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Vice President (VP), Finance
Job Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full time

Job Description

• The VP Finance is responsible for ensuring that we're able to get paid.

Responsibilities

• Directing all aspects of accounting operations
• Analyzing company's financial results with respect to profits, trends, costs and compliance with budgets. Issue regular status and ad hoc reports to senior management.
• Developing and maintaining all necessary accounting policies and systems, including general ledger and financial reporting. Ensuring that records are maintained in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Oversee accountant.
• Coordinating, preparing and reviewing monthly, quarterly, and annual reports
• Coordinating and/or preparing tax schedules, returns and information
• Managing all tax planning and compliance with all required federal, state, local, payroll, property and other applicable taxes
• Managing cash flow
• Managing pan-African payment platforms
• Proactively looking for cost saving strategies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or Business. CPA and/or CMA preferred but not required.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to prioritize and meet deadlines
• Ability to work without direct supervision, and efficiently manage tasks and time
• Interest in creating amazing customer experiences
• Excellent project management skills
• Proactive thinker.

Commitment:

• Full time position

Hours of work

• 50 hours per week, usual working hours are from 9:00am - 6:00pm WAT.
• There will be a requirement from time to time to start work earlier or finish later as the role dictates.