Head, Corporate Finance at Aktiva Consulting Limited April, 2024

Our client is a leading independent telecommunication company with Head Office in Abuja, is recruiting for the position of General Manager, Corporate Finance, based in FCT-Abuja, Nigeria. 

The General Manager, Corporate Finance will be a member of the Management Team leading the Corporate Finance function in all aspects. S/he will provide oversight on the financial integrity of the Company within its policies & procedures.   

Overall Objectives:

1. To ensure formulating innovative financing solutions for the Company, using an excellent mix of capital raising solutions that aggregate to the best interests of the company.
2. Create strategies and provide sound investment advisory for the company.
3. Lead the company to achieve sound financial reputational position and sound rating before all relevant financial partners of repute.
4. Work intensively with the Executive Chairman across all key aspects of the mandate, to achieve the best results in the most qualitative and high-speed mode, meeting the Company’s demands.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Working in concert with the Office of the Executive Chairman, design and formulate corporate finance strategies which ensure the availability of capital from outside sources of the most friendly form for prosecuting short, medium, and longer-term plans and projects, thereby sustaining all the time robust capital resilience.
2. Manage the Company’s treasury function which particularly involves a strong interface with entities that provide capital, initiate, and drive end-to-end the negotiation process with commercial banks and/or such other entities which fulfill the role in the money or capital market space.
3. Develop, propose, and prosecute a mix of viable funding strategies across the widest array of financing platforms and instruments from which creative choices would be made by the company’s board and management in the best interest of the company.
4. Formulate strategies and advance propositions and advisory to the Chairman and Board of Directors on the best corporate finance approaches, backed with strong proofs.
5. Develop and establish a robust and vibrant network of local and international finance industry players who can be counted on as “friends” and who can be called upon to respond with commitment and agility to finance needs in a way that turns out to be in the best interest of the Company.
6. Working in concert with the Corporate Planning & Strategy Directorate, take ownership of the process of developing feasibility studies and business plans on any project or plan or series of plans and initiatives (across different timelines) requiring funding towards achieving specific business growth plans and strategies, ensuring success in the viability of such plans.
7. Develop a strong street-savvy approach to financial relationship management which assure promptitude while demonstrating watertight prudence leading the process both in strategy and tactics in all aspects of capital raising. 
8. Execute and terminate a rigorous process of ensuring that the company achieves a compelling Rating Level; this involves thorough ‘housekeeping and preparing the company adequately for such rating exercise and proceeding to secure the services of a recognized rating agency to carry out the exercise.
9. Supported by strong research and analytics, formulate and drive viable investment strategies across an acceptable range of investment options and portfolios, such investments which are creatively designed to serve the best interests of the company in more ways than one.
10. Leverage the finance function in such a way as to strengthen the company’s brand equity, corporate respectability, and overall shareholder value for the Company.
11. Develop a sound annual dividend pay-out structure and plans which serve the best interests of shareholders.

Persons Specification:

Education/Qualifications

1. First degree in Finance or Management related fields
2. Master’s degree in a related field, preferably from a foreign university

Experience

1. Minimum of 15 years’ experience in related financial roles without a break
2. Experience based on a diversity of backgrounds covering banking and a multiplicity of other industries while being engaged in the finance function, carrying out differing roles thereby across the cognate areas of emphasis in the job description.

Skills & Abilities

1. Excellent management & leadership skills
2. Excellent skills in facilitation and capacity building for inter-linkages between staff, partners & stakeholders
3. Ability to work without supervision
4. Ability to work under pressure
5. Ability to multitask
6. Negotiation skills
7. Ability to interface effectively with other members of staff and solve problems using own initiative

Application Channel:

Interested candidates should send their CVs and cover letter to recruitment-ng@aktivaconsulting.com, citing Head, Corporate Finance as the subject