Chief Financial Officer

Role Overview

Chief Financial Officer for a leading edible oils and agro-industrial group. This is a full-time role based in Nigeria, South Africa, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya, Lagos, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, or Ghana, placed through Weekday AI for one of their clients.

Role Purpose

Lead the Group's financial strategy, planning and execution to drive sustainable growth, protect margins, optimize capital structure, and ensure financial governance across all operations. Serve as the Group's principal financial advisor to the Board and Executive Committee on capital allocation, risk management and strategic investments.

Key Responsibilities

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 analysis for palm oil, soybean, and 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 the 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.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 15 years of financial leadership experience.
• International experience required.

Additional Information

• Salary range: Rs 8,000,000 – Rs 10,800,000 (INR 80–108 LPA).
• Full-time position.