Sahara Oils Recruits Finance Manager

Sahara is a dynamic and exciting place to work. If you enjoy early responsibility, a passion for challenges, innovative and ambitious, Sahara's growth and breath of opportunity and focus on personal development makes it an ideal place to develop your career.
Sahara is Recruiting in Nigeria,
Job Title: Finance Manager
Operating Company: Sahara Energy Resource Nigeria Limited
Job Location: Lagos
Expiry Date: 4/30/2010
Description
• Oversee the preparation of financial reports, direct investment activities, and implement cash management strategies.Managers may also contribute to develop strategies and implement the long-term goals of their organization.
• Direct the preparation of financial reports, such as income statements, balance sheets, and analyses of future earnings or expenses, that summarize and forecast the organization's financial position.
• Oversee the investment of funds, manage associated risks, supervise cash management activities, execute capital-raising strategies to support a firm's expansion, and deal with mergers and acquisitions.
• Oversee the firm's issuance of credit, establishing credit-rating criteria, determining credit ceilings, and monitoring the collections of past-due accounts.
• Responsible for providing financial advice and support to clients and colleagues to enable them to make sound business decisions.
• assessing the financial implications of new or existing ventures; conducting reviews and evaluations for cost-reduction opportunities
• Liaising with a number of third parties including Auditors, Solicitors, and funding organisations. Introduce and improve management reporting information to better aid business decision making.
• Responsible for all areas of the company's risk assessment process & internal audit programme, undertaking risk & financial control related projects, and various ad hoc work as required by the Group CFO.
• Responsible for preparing special reports required by regulatory authorities.
• Direct the organization's budgets to meet its financial goals.
Additional Information • Professionally qualified accountant with a minimum of 10 years experience in accounting related functions with up-to-date financial accounting knowledge and a detailed understanding of the theory and practicalities of financial consolidations.
• Adequate knowledge of various accounting standards (local & international) relevant to scope of company operations.
• Adequate knowledge of relevant statue, professional pronouncement and ethical standards to ensure compliance with relevant statutory provisions at all times
• Competent accounting and control skills related to project entities and special purpose companies.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Competent financial modeling skills in Excel.

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