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Strategic Finance Leadership & Capital Allocation

• Develop and implement the Group’s financial strategy aligned to business priorities and growth targets.
• Advise the MD/CEO and Board on performance, risks, funding, investments, and capital structure.
• Lead annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and multi-year planning across all entities.
• Provide financial modelling, scenario analysis, and investment appraisals for expansion, verticals, acquisitions/partnerships, and capital projects.
• Drive capital allocation discipline across subsidiaries and ensure ROI accountability.

Group Consolidation, Reporting & Performance Management (FP&A)

• Produce consolidated monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements and management reports.
• Standardize accounting policies, chart of accounts, reporting templates, and close calendars across the Group.
• Implement a Group performance rhythm: monthly business reviews, variance analysis, corrective actions, and KPI dashboards.
• Drive and handle pricing, margin performance, cost-to-serve, productivity, and profitability by product/channel/entity.
• Strengthen management pack quality: clear commentary, root causes, actions, owners, and timelines.

Financial Control, Governance & Compliance

• Ensure full statutory, tax, and regulatory compliance across all entities (Uganda and Tanzania).
• Lead external audits and coordinate internal audit actions; ensure timely closure of findings.
• Design and enforce strong internal controls: approvals, delegated authority, segregation of duties, reconciliations, and documentation standards.
• Maintain and continuously improve finance policies/manuals, delegated authority matrix, and governance frameworks.

Treasury, Liquidity & Banking

• Own Group cashflow forecasting, liquidity planning, and funding strategy.
• Manage bank relationships, facilities, covenants, and financing negotiations.
• Monitor debt obligations, capital structure, FX exposure (as applicable), and payment controls.
• Oversee treasury controls (cash approvals, payment runs, signatories, limits) and ensure aligned cash prioritization across entities.

Working Capital & Credit Governance

• Strengthen credit policy governance and collections discipline across outlets/branches/subsidiaries.
• Drive improvements in DSO, receivables aging, inventory health/turns (finance partnership), and supplier payment terms.
• Implement weekly/monthly working capital routines (debtors reviews, credit holds, exceptions logs, escalation discipline).
• Reduce margin leakage through tighter controls on discounts, returns, credit notes, and pricing compliance.

Corporate Finance, Risk Management & Assurance

• Identify financial, operational, and compliance risks; implement mitigation plans and monitoring dashboards.
• Strengthen fraud prevention and detection controls (payments, procurement, inventory/dispatch, master data changes).
• Ensure adequate insurance coverage and proper claims documentation (as applicable).
• Maintain a Group risk register and present top risks to executive/board forums.

Systems, Automation & Finance Transformation (ERP)

• Lead finance systems governance across the Group (ERP/Odoo or equivalent): controls, data integrity, user discipline, and reporting quality.
• Reduce manual reporting and build IFRS-ready reporting capability from systems.
• Implement automation and dashboards (budget vs actual, debtors aging, approvals workflows, exception reporting).
• Partner with IT/ERP administrators to deliver and track a prioritized finance transformation roadmap.
• Ensures financial cybersecurity risk oversight, thus financial data protection, cyber fraud risk, and business continuity and disaster recovery planning.

Leadership, Talent Development & Stakeholder Management

• Lead and mentor subsidiary finance managers/accountants; build a strong finance bench across entities.
• Define finance team KPIs, performance management, capability-building, and succession planning.
• Strengthen cross-functional partnership with Sales, Operations, Procurement, HR, and Internal Audit to enforce discipline and support growth.
• Represent the Group in key stakeholder engagements (auditors, banks, regulators, strategic partners) as delegated.
• Ensure Business continuity in cases of crisis, financial management, economic shock planning and contingency liquidity strategies