Head, Corporate Finance
At a glance
Mid-level FP&A role at Fosad Consulting. Lagos · full-time.
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What you'll do
- Find and pursue acquisition opportunities, then manage the diligence and transaction work through to completion
- Guide financial planning and stakeholder reporting, using forecasts to inform the business’s financial direction
- Build models and scenario analyses to assess company value, deal outcomes, risks and potential returns
- Structure and negotiate funding through shares or loans, preparing proposals and transaction documents
- Work with senior leaders, board members and external advisers on deals, bids and investment recommendations
What you bring
- A first degree in accounting or finance, plus a required professional credential such as ACA, ACCA or CFA
- Hands-on corporate finance experience and a strong record of results, including work at board level
- Strong financial modelling, Excel and accounting analysis skills, alongside sound management and leadership ability
Who this fits
This role suits an experienced corporate finance professional who can work with senior decision-makers and lead transaction activity. It is based onsite in Lagos.
From the employer
Our client is currently seeking an astute, goal oriented and smart personality to fill the vacant post of Head, Corporate Finance. This role seeks to maximize bottom line opportunities for the business.
The role of a Head: Corporate Finance is to maximize bottom line opportunities for the business. The role will be involved in identifying and securing merger and acquisition deals, managing and investing large monetary funds, and buying and selling financial products etc. The role steers the financial direction of the business, and undertakes all strategic financial planning, reporting to stakeholders and all aspects of large transactions for the organization’s business, including due diligence.
Other Responsibilities:
- Advise on how to meet targets and create investment capital
- Provide investment advice, tactics and recommendations
- Generating finance from shares and loans
- Use financial modeling to predict outcomes
- Support in targeting and winning business
- Negotiate and structure financial details
- Liaise with all parties involved in transactions and assist with negotiations
- Prepare legal documents and prospectuses
- Assess and predict financial risks and returns
- Liaise with accountants, lawyers, financial experts and regulatory bodies
- Contribute to competitive bid proposals and formal presentations
- Financial analysis related to transactions
- Financial modeling and scenario analysis
- Drafting documentation with a compelling rationale to generate interest in funding proposals, companies for sale, project finance opportunities
- Exposure to deal negotiations
- Client-facing interaction with senior decision-making executives
- Working directly with the senior management team on deals
- Developing key skills related to the valuation of companies
- A first degree in Accounting or Finance
- M.Sc or MBA will be an added advantage
- Professional Qualification required – ACA, ACCA, CFA
- Experience within Corporate finance is essential
- Strong academic record/ Proven track record
- Experience at Board level
- Appetite to learn new skills in a challenging and supportive environment
- Strong financial modeling skills
- Management and leadership abilities
- Critical analytical skills
- A high degree of familiarity with Excel and an aptitude to develop and enhance financial modelling skills
- A proficiency in financial and accounting interpretation and analysis is essential
- Drive, enthusiasm and commitment
Working Relationship
- Board of Directors
- MDs and Heads of department
- External stakeholders
- Other members of Staff
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