Full Time
Lagos
Posted 2 years ago
Octave Partners is a professional services firm offering financial advisory, business advisory, business incubation services and investment management.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Finance Manager
Location: Lekki Pennisula, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Summary
- Develop financial models to support valuation, planning, operations, fundraising and forecasting
- Develop business plan and investor related documentation
- Develop and track financial and other pertinent KPI (key performance indicators) as required
- Support the fundraising process from beginning to end
- Improve financial performance through analysis of financial results, forecasts, variances, and trends
- Create recommendations to be presented to management and executives
- Conduct comparable analysis and market research to support internal financial analysis
- Aid in the capital budgeting and expenditure planning process.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
Financial and business model related:
- Perform financial forecasting, reporting, and operational metrics tracking
- Develop business plan and investor related documentation
- Analyze financial data and create financial models for decision support
- Analyze past results, perform variance analysis, identify trends, and make recommendations for improvements
- Evaluate financial performance by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans and forecasts
- Perform market research, data mining, business intelligence, and valuation
- Maintain a strong financial analysis foundation creating forecasts and models.
Investor and deal related:
- Source potential deals and investors
- Assist to propose capital structure and deal structure options
- Advice on optimal structure
- Assist in developing investor marketing documents
- Assist with preparing data room for warehousing due diligence information.
Fundraising Related:
- Coordinate, follow up and manage potential and actual investors and clients
- Lead data room development and management
- Review fundraising related agreements and support negotiations as required
- Project manage and play key role in implementation of conditions precedent to funds disbursement
- Execute any other related tasks as required.
Others:
- Support the finance and accounting functions of the company and portfolio companies
- Play key role in KPI setting and management
- Participate in other special and corporate projects of the company.
Requirements
Education and Work Experience:
- Minimum of a University degree in Accounting, Finance or relevant field
- At least 7 years of relevant experience in similar role e.g. investment banking, financial advisory etc.
- At least 2 years of management experience
- Master’s in Business Administration & Finance will be an added advantage
- CFA certification and other finance and/or accounting related certificates is a plus Management consulting experience is a plus.
Competencies and Skills:
- Financial modelling experience
- Good with numbers
- Good management skills
- Good understanding of and experience in accounting and financial reporting principles and practices
- Good relationship management skills
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Good report writing and oral communication skills
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office tools (Word, power point, etc.)
- Good team working skills
- High sense of responsibility, accountability and dependability
- High integrity and ethical standards
- Self-starter, hard worker and “can-do” mindset
- Attention to detail.
Application Closing Date
29th March, 2021.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@paelyt.com and hr@octavepartners.com using the “Job Title” as the subject of the e-mail.
Job Features
Job Category | Accounting |