Vertical CFO - Nutrisco

Company Overview: ETG is a distinguished conglomerate across 46 countries with a prominent focus on agri-business and a global presence. As a pioneering industry leader, we are dedicated to delivering innovative solutions in agriculture, trading, logistics, and distribution. Our extensive portfolio encompasses the entire agri-value chain, and we are committed to fostering sustainable growth within the industry.

Responsibilities:

· Strategic Finance Leadership

· Lead and manage a finance team and responsible for day-to-day operations to ensure efficient functioning of the verticals Finance and Treasury departments.

· Provide leadership to embed profitability, cash management culture, risk management, and excellent commercial judgement in business decision making.

· Collaborate and contribute to Senior Leadership Team to drive company performance.

· Develop, lead, and deliver the short- and long-term business plan, reflecting the company vision, including the identification of opportunities and risks and cash requirements.

· Define key performance indicators for the company, through analysis, to drive business decisions and solutions to growth, costs, profitability, and cash management.

· Monitor and execute financial strategy by providing commercial insights, strategic analysis, and leadership on financial reporting.

· Proactively advise the CEO and Senior Leadership Team on key business decisions through sound commercial judgement, including highlighting options, trade-offs, risks, and opportunities.

· Provide guidance to the CEO and Senior Leadership Team on the preparation of the annual budget planning and the preparation of forecasts, trends, and financial reports.

· Partner with the Senior Leadership Team in preparing business KPIs, board packages, investor reports, and reporting dashboards.

· Build a strong finance team culture of integrity, collaboration, data-driven and proactiveness.

· Strong risk management approach, helping the company identify business risks and implementing appropriate responses to the same

· Ensure that business controls and finance SOPs on credit collections, purchasing functions etc. are adequate and regularly updated as might be required

Requirements

· CA + other relevant senior finance qualifications

· At least 15+ years of work experience, of which 5+ in a commodity trading industry( Preferable food ingredients / edible nuts), 5+ in Africa and 5 at a senior level.

· Experience : treasury / consolidations / financial institute liaisons / joint ventures and mergers & acquisitions.

· A people leader with excellent communication skills.

· Ability to manage complex matrix structures and environments.

· Agile, resilient personality who has experience dealing with multiple stakeholders at senior level.