Accounting Manager  

Key Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Strategic Financial Leadership
- Lead the development and execution of long-term financial strategies, annual budgets, business modeling, variance analyses, and forecasting.
- Conduct in-depth financial analysis to identify trends, risks, and opportunities, through data-driven recommendations to support strategic decision-making and drive business growth.
- Offer insight and recommendations to the CEO, VP and Leadership team for sound decision-making.
- Collaborate with Management to define pricing strategies, profit margins, funding, and investment decisions that support business competitiveness.
- Provide strategic financial counsel on market expansion, agency acquisitions, and integrations.
- Lead financial planning for multi-brand portfolios, campaign cycles, and contract engagements
- Drive and support financial transformation initiatives, including digital finance integration, AI-driven finance, and process automation to enhance efficiency and accuracy

Revenue and Finance Management
- Optimize billing cycles, accelerate accounts receivable collection, and ensure accurate and timely revenue recognition in compliance with accounting standards. Implement automated systems for invoicing and payment processing
- Establish nternal controls and tracking of accounts payables i.e., general expenditure, supplier/partner settlements and other related transactions - These include developing clear policies and procedures to ensure transparency, prevent fraud, and mitigate financial exposure.
- Regular audits and reconciliations will be conducted to maintain accuracy and compliance
- Collaborate closely with account and legal teams to negotiate favorable contract terms. This includes meticulously reviewing financial clauses, defining clear payment milestones, and establishing cancellation, revision and renewal policies to protect the company's interests and optimize profitability.

Treasury Management

Manage group cash flow, liquidity, and working capital to support operational and expansion needs.

Manage all treasury functions, including banking relationships, and investment management to ensure adequate working capital for execution and production needs.

Formulate strategies for capital structure optimization, and debt management.

Risk Management and Compliance
- Identifying, assessing, and mitigating financial risks across the group, including market risk, credit risk, operational risk, and liquidity risk.
- Ensure full compliance with tax laws, data privacy, corporate governance standards, and financial governance standards and regulations in line with media industry regulations.
- Establish, develop, maintain and implement effective internal control systems to safeguard assets, financial integrity, prevent fraud, promote transparency, and ensure accountability within all finance-related activities.
- Collaborate and work with management to monitor risk management policies and procedures to ensure that program and organizational risks are minimized through effective controls and checks.
- Monitor key financial metrics, identify risks and opportunities, and recommend corrective actions.
- Collaborate with auditors to maintain transparency and adherence to regulatory standards.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related field
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Finance, with at least 4 years of experience in leading a Finance team/department
• Experience in Accounting/Finance in the E-commerce and Retail industry is a big plus
• CPA license or certification is highly preferred
• Demonstrates mastery in GAAP and other accounting principles and practices, well-versed in tax laws, and corporate governance and regulatory/statutory government compliances.
• Possess strong leadership, coaching and mentoring skills that will equip you to develop and lead the entire Finance department of the Company.
• Strong leadership, negotiation and communication skills
• Demonstrates a highly motivated and technology-driven attitude and approach
• Highly knowledgeable in generating financial reports with accuracy to maintain high-quality financial data and tracking
• Demonstrates mastery in data analysis and numerical evaluation to observe, identify and organise information to detect underlying issues. Recognizes patterns to interpret implications, ascertain solutions, and excellent judgment in complex financial and business scenarios.
• Excellent leadership and project management skills and cross-functional collaboration with related teams.
• Demonstrate a proactive attitude, flexibility and ability to manage and lead people.
• A strong problem-solver, able to work under pressure and assimilate large quantities of information quickly, while maintaining attention to detail.
• Upholds strong ethical standards, professional conduct, and makes informed decisions.

Leadership and Organizational Development
- Leading, mentoring, and developing a high-performing finance team, fostering a culture of excellence, accountability, ethical conduct, and continuous improvement.
- Promote a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement within the finance and accounting/legal partners.
- Build financial acumen among non-financial leaders—especially account management and project teams—through strategic partnerships and collaboration.
-Implement programs to standardize best practices in budgeting, reporting, and costing.

Financial Management Reporting
- Ensure compliance with local, GAAP, and industry-specific accounting standards.
- Manage budgeting and forecasting processes, focusing on revenue pipelines, utilization rates, and campaign profitability
- Oversee cost allocation and inter-company transactions with the group.
- Present quarterly and annual financial reports to the Management, highlighting financial performance (P&L) and discipline.
- Implement robust internal controls, audit systems, and performance measurement tools.
- Oversee preparation of annual budgets, forecasts, and variance analyses.
- Conduct trend analysis and financial modeling to guide business units in decision-making.
- Monitor financial KPIs and develop initiatives for performance improvement.

Finance Business Partnering
- Partner with business unit leaders to drive profitability, operational efficiency, and cost management initiatives.
- Advocate sustainable practices and financial reporting in line with commitments and values.
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with external stakeholders, suppliers, banks, auditors, and regulatory bodies communicating financial performance, strategies, and outlook effectively to these stakeholders.