Kennedy OPENE

• Oversee and manage the finance and accounts function of the company.

• Final accounts in compliance with IFRS, financial reporting to the board level, and performance analysis.
• Develop financial reviews and providing investment opportunities.

• Ensure regulatory compliance and mitigate inherent risks.
• Cash flow management using appropriate funding platforms.
• Stakeholder management including banking relationships.
• Develop detailed financial models and apply analytical tools to facilitate variance analysis and predicting the markets.
• Package financial agreements through cross-functional collaboration.
• Coordinate annual statutory and tax audits.
• Develop business systems and structures to enhance accounting and financial duties.
• Design sales and service strategies to improve revenue, client retention and addition to client portfolio.
• Establish performance metrics for measuring corporate performance.
• Ensure company wide internal control systems.
• Coordinate annual budgeting process and presentation to the board.

* Oversee the operations and development of the company’s finance department including creating and reviewing policies, budgeting, recruiting, training and conducting regular assessments of financial procedures.

* Create strategic business plans based on the analysis of the company’s status and financial forecasts.

* Analyzing market trends to discover business opportunities and maximize profits.

* Develop business models and risk assessments.

* Working capital management.

* Develop and manage company's financial systems/models.

* Prepare financial reports required for performance measurement and decision making.

* Responsible for annual audits.

* Stakeholder management.

* Conduct business analysis, pricing, tendering and supporting marketing effort to increase sales.

* Collaborate with departments and stakeholders to identify and maintain resources needed to establish and provide an effective supply chain.
* Establish performance metrics for measurement, comparison, or evaluation of factors affecting the supply chain.
* Develop and maintain optimal inventories of materials and supplies to optimize production.
* Analyze current inventories and procedures; suggests improvements to increase efficiency of supply chain and profitability for the company.
* Identify optimal shipment and transportation routes with attention to consolidation of warehousing and distribution.
* Assess the need for material-handling equipment and staffing and make recommendations to ensure efficient loading, unloading, movement, and storage of materials.
* Negotiate prices for raw material and delivery with suppliers, vendors, and/or shipping companies.
* Monitor the performance of suppliers, assessing their ability to meet quality and delivery requirements.

* Evaluate supplier quotes based on purchasing procedures and competitiveness in quality, price and delivery.

* Manage the entire SCM function of the company.

* Promote and manage connections with banks and related funding institutions.
* Manage systems that facilitate working capital.
* Manage all aspects of cash management, including account funding, wire transfers, and cash concentration.
* Participate in the creation of the policies and processes for corporate treasury accounting.
* Overseeing, instructing, and advising technical professionals in corporate treasury accounting.
* Track liquidity positions and foreign currency exposures, develop and execute cash forecasting models.
* Collaborate on tax structures.
* Create and administer an insurance framework to control risks for the company using a combination of self-insurance and insurance protection.
* Take part in other important treasury projects, like finance capital structure optimization.