# Chief Financial Officer

**Company:** [Weekday AI](https://jobs.workable.com/companies/pxG9rDgnvZm2c86JUchT1j.md)
**Location:** Remote
**Workplace:** remote
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** Weekday's Client via platform

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## Description

**This role is for one of Weekday’s clients  
Salary range: Rs 8000000 - Rs 10800000 (ie INR 80 - 108 LPA)**

  
Min Experience: 15+ years  
Location: Nigeria, South Africa, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya, Lagos, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Ghana  
JobType: full-time

## Requirements

**Strategic Financial Leadership**

-   Co-own the Group's strategic and business plans with the Group MD/CEO, ensuring financial rigour underpins growth, capacity expansion, and diversification decisions.
-   Lead the development of the Group's medium- and long-term financial strategy, including capital structure, funding mix and dividend policy.
-   Advise the Board and Executive Committee on capital allocation, investment appraisal, pricing strategy and margin management across the product portfolio.
-   Evaluate and lead M&A, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships, including due diligence, valuation and post-transaction integration.

**Financial Planning, Reporting & Analysis**

-   Oversee annual budgeting, rolling forecasts and long-range financial planning across the Group and its subsidiaries.
-   Ensure timely, accurate and IFRS-compliant consolidated financial statements and management accounts for the Board, shareholders and regulators.
-   Drive commercial and manufacturing cost analytics, including cost-of-goods and input-cost sensitivity (palm oil, soybean, energy), to protect and improve margins.
-   Deliver Board-ready reporting packs, KPI dashboards and variance analysis that translate financial performance into actionable business insight.

**Treasury, Funding & Capital Markets**

-   Manage the Group's liquidity, banking relationships, working capital and cash flow, with particular attention to FX exposure given the Group's reliance on imported raw materials and equipment.
-   Structure and negotiate debt facilities, trade finance and supply-chain financing to support operations and expansion at competitive cost.
-   Lead engagement with banks, DFIs, rating agencies and, where relevant, capital markets, positioning Leading Edible Oils & Agro-Industrial Group for future financing rounds or a potential public listing.
-   Own the Group's hedging strategy for commodity price and currency risk.

**Risk, Controls, Tax & Compliance**

-   Establish and continuously strengthen the internal control framework, segregation of duties and financial governance across all Group entities.
-   Ensure full compliance with Nigerian tax legislation (FIRS, LIRS), statutory filings, and regulatory requirements from bodies including NAFDAC, SON and NESREA insofar as they carry financial or reporting implications.
-   Oversee enterprise risk management, insurance strategy and business continuity planning from a financial perspective.
-   Manage the external audit relationship and ensure timely resolution of audit findings and management letter points.

**Organisational & People Leadership**

-   Build, mentor and lead a high-performing finance organisation across reporting, treasury, tax, FP&A and internal control.
-   Champion the adoption of modern ERP, financial systems and automation to improve the speed, accuracy and integrity of financial data.
-   Instil a culture of financial discipline, accountability and commercial ownership across the wider business, not only within the finance function.
-   Represent the Group in engagements with shareholders, lenders, regulators and other external stakeholders.

Must-have skills

international experience