The Finance Lead is a critical member of SOLV. A trusted advisor to the business responsible for creating a culture of driving business performance with data driven insights. The Finance Lead is responsible not just for the accounting & operational aspects of SOLV, but also building the analytics backbone that would enable the organisation to be a truly digital and data driven business.

Based in Accra and reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, the ideal Finance Lead candidate will be a highly driven and collaborative leader with an in-depth knowledge of treasury / cash operations, technology, digital data, and financial processes to help SOLV Ghana achieve its aspiration as a digital Marketplace.

Key Responsibilities

Business 
•    Provide the strategic thought leadership on all the financial and operational affairs of SOLV Ghana. This requires delivery of strong financial management support, metrics, and insights to SOLV Ghana management and to enable decision making.
•    Drive enhanced analytical reporting for the profit and loss and key financial indicators. This will require a wider understanding of how financial performance is delivered to a variety of stakeholders, through business focused conversations at all levels of the team.
•    Manage SOLV Ghana’s Liquidity, engaging with Treasury on deposit rates and partnering with external third parties on cash management facilities.
•    Engage with SCV and Investors on financial performance, valuation and support the CEO in fund raising activities.
•    Oversee product operations with a key focus on Supply Chain Financing.
•    Support the Chief Commercial Officer to continue to refine business model to reflect financial product pipeline.

Processes
•    Ensure financial and operational control is established. This will involve setting up new financial systems with third party providers as well as ensuring accurate and timely information reporting to SCV and related stakeholders.
•    Possess a control mindset and adhere to the relevant risk framework for Business Ventures.
•    Partner with external Tax team i.e. Deloitte to support tax compliance.
•    Providing inputs for SCV’s reporting schedules (half-year, year-end) as requested
•    Lead the forecasting, annual budgeting exercise.
•    Ensure operational continuity.

Risk Management

•    Manage the overall design and outcome of the end-to-end finance and related processes for SOLV Ghana, starting from within the digital Marketplace and extending to SOLV Ghana’s financial operations.
•    The role will own the process output performance in terms of client service, financial performance, and risk, where appointed as Process Owner.
•    Develop and maintain effective financial information systems to satisfy the reporting needs of SOLV Ghana, SCV, and local regulators where applicable.
•    Apply SCV accounting and financial control policies, standards, procedures, and internal control practices as applicable.
•    Identify, assess, treat, and monitor significant operational risks and propose risk acceptance requests with justification to the authorized risk acceptance authority and abide by any conditions of acceptance.
•    Promptly execute any remediation or risk treatment actions to remain within risk tolerance.

Talent 
•    Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values.
•    Collaborate with the CEO to build a lean Finance and Operations function to efficiently and deliver on its mandate.
•    Lead a team of Finance and Operations managers and vendors to ensure the organization fulfils all the statutory requirements.

Regulatory & Business Conduct:
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across SOLV Ghana. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and Code of Conduct.
•    Lead SOLV Ghana to achieve the outcomes set out in SOLV’s Conduct Principles.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
•    Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association.

Qualifications

•    Minimum of a first degree; master’s degree will be an advantage.
•    8+ years of hands-on experience in managing client led profitability, pricing strategies and KPI setting and overseeing profitability through cost initiatives and efficiencies.
•    Possessing detailed technical thought in key accounting and financial elements to develop as a subject matter expert for SOLV Ghana.
•    The successful candidate will be expected to continually assess the impact of on-going internal and external developments on business.
•    Oversee and manage the operational aspects of running the business, including business management, as well as engaging with external consultants.
•    Significant experience in a variety of Business Finance and Treasury roles.
•    Energy and desire to succeed; follows through on commitments; pushes self and others to deliver exceptional results.
•    Ability to see things from multiple perspectives.
•    Strong People leader with ability to lead and grow talent; problem solver, collaborator, trusted partner is a prerequisite.
•    Highly adaptable, quick learner, self-starter with a structured mindset to approaching problem solving.
•    Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.