Chief Financial Officer

Key Purpose of the Job Responsibility to ensure that appropriate financial systems and processes are in place. This includes but is not limited to Company Reporting, Cash Management, Debt Facilities, Risk Management and Audits, Tax Compliance, Insurance, Contract Management and Terms of Trade & Accounting Projects & Analysis. • Corporate Finance: Optimizing the balance sheet structure. • Financial Strategy: including budgeting, forecasting, contributing to overall strategy and investment prioritization, investor relationship management. • Risk Management: organizational risk framework (strategic and financial). • Financial Strategic: Direction and Leadership Major responsibilities: • Assist the CEO in developing, for the Board's approval, a strategic financial direction and positioning to ensure the Company's success. • Develop and recommend an annual operating plan and financial budget that support the Company's long term strategy and medium to short term operating plan for the strategy. • Work directly with the CEO to help raise funding, loans and venture capital for the company. • Create, coordinate and evaluate the financial controls and supporting information systems of the Company. • Together with the CEO, approve and coordinate changes and improvements to disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial and MIS reporting. • Develop appropriate key performance indicators to monitor and drive the financial performance of the Company and the operating business units. • Oversee and monitor the Company's financial position, banking and financing activities and capital structure and monitor the respect of banking and financial covenants and hedging arrangements, as applicable. • Ensure the adequacy of the Company's insurance coverage. • Oversee and monitor effective tax strategies and compliance for the Company. • Ensure optimal team size of the Department with proper work allocation to each team member. • Coordinate for the preparation of the Company's financial statements and management discussion and analysis. (annual and interim) • Coordinate the annual audit with Internal auditors as well as Company's external auditors • Assist the Company's Audit Committee in performing its duties required under the applicable laws and the Audit Committee. • Attend meetings of the Board and its Committees and present the financial information necessary or relevant to the Board or such Committee for discharging its duties. • Establish and maintain lines of communications with the investor community and oversee the dissemination of the Company's press releases, annual report, communications with analysts and the media and investor relations. • Provide both people management and subject matter leadership to the corporate finance team.