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HF Group
Head, Financial Planning & Controls

Hf Group

Nairobi | Full Time | Banking / Financial Services

Closing in 1 week from now

Principle Accountabilities

Budgeting, Forecasting & Performance Management

  • Lead the budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning processes.
  • Oversee monthly and quarterly performance reviews, variance analysis, and business insights for senior management.
  • Ensure timely preparation and distribution of monthly rolling forecasts for business units and legal entities.
  • Partner with business units to provide financial analysis and advisory support for strategic projects and investments.
  • Ensure timely and accurate segment reporting.
  • Own intra-company cost allocation frameworks and models.
  • Own inter-company cost recharge frameworks and models and ensure tax efficiency.

Balance Sheet & Capital Management

  • Manage balance sheet planning and capital optimization, including liquidity optimization in collaboration with Treasury and GM Finance.
  • Ensure that the bank has an effective ICAAP.
  • Own the Funds Transfer Pricing FTP processes.
  • Oversee preparation of ALCO, EXCO and board papers.
  • Prepare debt funding pitch decks

Financial Controls & Governance

  • Drive cost management initiatives, ensuring efficiency and alignment to strategic objectives.
  • Develop and maintain financial control frameworks across functions.
  • Build strong financial governance processes that support compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements.
  • Ensure timely departmental policies reviews.
  • Oversee model governance for all models developed and managed in Finance.
  • Perform and oversee revenue assurance.
  • Maintain and update KPIs tracker for the Finance division.

Accounts Payable, Receivable & Reconciliations

  • Ensure vendors are paid timely and with optimal credit terms.
  • Ensure GL reconciliations are timely and that outstanding issues resolved promptly.
  • Ensure that the trial balance TB can be relied upon by all users.
  • Ensure accuracy of the Fixed Asset Register and its associated depreciation schedules
  • Ensure accurate maintenance of receivables records and reconciliations

Financial Information System

  • Ensure implementation of set system improvements SAP and its integrations
  • Collaborate with IT to ensure EoD processes are supportive of finance processes
  • Ensure GL variance between systems is resolved on a timely basis

Decision Support

  • Ensure timely and accurate preparation of dashboards and KPIs.
  • Provide thematic guidance to modelling teams.
  • Strengthen finance business partnership.
  • Review quarterly competitor analysis and present to management.
  • Create a roadmap for Robotic Process Automation RPA in Finance and collaborate with Innovations and IT teams.

Audits

  • Facilitate internal audits
  • Collaborate with Head of Financial & Regulatory Reporting to facilitate external audits
  • Ensure closure of internal and external audit findings

Team Management

  • Design a talent development program for the team
  • Ensure time performance measurement and management for the team
  • Mentor the team

Ad-hoc

  • Any other duty as assigned from time to time by the Finance and HFC leadership

Key Competencies and Skills

  • Results-oriented
  • Strong negotiation skills
  • High emotional intelligence
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Highly analytical
  • Problem solving skills
  • Good communicator & excellent presentation skills
  • Team player

Minimum Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience

Academic and Professional

  • A business-related degree from a reputable institution preferably Finance, Accounting, Banking, data science or a related quantitative field.
  • CPAK
  • CFA, FRM, FRR, CIFA certifications will be an added advantage

Experience and Technical Skills

  • A minimum of 12 years’ experience in banking with hands on experience finance, internal audit, external audit, financial risk management, strategy.
  • 4 years should be at management level.
  • Hands on experience in finance leadership
  • Experience in board relations
  • Experience in CBK relations

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