Netis Group is looking for a Finance Director to join our subsidiaries across Africa, with possibility of expatriation.

Purpose of the Position : 

• Ensure reporting on time and at the expected level of quality while ensuring compliance with accounting, tax, local and legal standards and procedures, as well as internal control.
• Guarantee the good administrative and financial management of the company.
• Control the proper execution of the strategy and procedures defined with management and coordinate the services for which he is responsible.

Job Functions and Responsibilities :

• Management of the teams in charge of accounting, treasury, taxation, management control, audit, law, information system, general services, purchasing activities.

Administrative management :

• Define the main orientations of the control systems.
• Set up the management procedures and indicators necessary for monitoring activities and reporting to management.

Accounting, management control, reporting :

•  Guarantee the reliability of the company's accounts and the establishment of financial and accounting documents in accordance with the legislation.
•  Supervise the accounting teams in compliance with deadlines and procedures and ensure the production of reporting to the group, on time as well as in quality,
•  Supervise the consolidation of financial data and IFRS accounting standards.
•  Supervise management control in its missions and the preparation of results.
•  Develop the budget and the business plan in accordance with the strategic choices of the shareholder and the general management.

Cash-flow, credit, collection, banking relations :

•   Develop the company's financing plans and validate the cash budgets meeting the needs of external financing.
•   Ensure an efficient working capital requirement for the subsidiary and maintain a positive cash generations from the operations.
•   Define and monitor the credit policy in collaboration with the procurement and sales department.
•   Seek assistance from banks and support from investors, adapt outstanding to changes in financial markets.
•  Ensure proper management of company’s assets.

Business law, taxation :

•  Organize boards of directors and general meetings in compliance with legal obligations.
•  Coordinate legal advice in specific cases.
•  Control the company's legal commitments (insurance, subcontracting) by centralizing and validating all the contracts established.
•  Ensure compliance with legislation, ensure legal and contractual monitoring.
•  Define tax choices with experts (tax expert, auditor, auditor), ensure relations with tax services.
•  Oversee the settlement of disputes.

Human resources :

•  To be the guarantor of the respect of social obligations and the legislation in force. Ensure a legal watch.
•  Supervise personnel administrative services (payroll, employment contracts, personnel files).
•  Supervise recruitments, career management, training.
•  Set up the remuneration policy in conjunction with the operational directors.
•  Manage relations with employee representative.

Information system, organization, procedures :

•   Pilot the implementation of new management tools, such as ERP and reporting tools.

Communication :

•  Guarantee the timeliness and reliability of financial information.
•  Ensure relations with regulatory authorities.

Purchases :

•   Support operational staff in negotiations with suppliers.
•   Involve in negotiation process with suppliers to optimize the payment terms with suppliers where possible.

Staturory, Tax and internal audit :

•   Supervise the internal audit missions of the company's departments.
•   Ensure timely completion of the statutory audits and obtain clean audit opinion.
•   Proactively prepare for Tax audits and follow the closure of all points raised by tax office on a timely basis. To ensure a good working relationship with the tax office.

• Masters in Finance minimum in Management, finance-accounting, control-accounting-audit with a minimum of 5 years of experience in similar functions
• Knowledge of finance, accounting, social and business law, taxation, audit, management control.
• Cross-disciplinary and hierarchical management
• Fluent Frensh & English
• Required qualities : Organization / Rigor / Critical thinking and synthesis / Anticipation / Intellectual integrity / Pragmatism.