About the role
Strategic Financial Leadership and Sustainability
- Develop and lead PSW’s financial strategy aligned with its statutory mandate and digital transformation objectives. - Advise the CEO and Board on financial sustainability, cost recovery, funding models, and major investment decisions. - Oversee long-term financial planning, revenue assurance, and prudent cost management.
Governance, Compliance and Board Assurance
- Ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulatory requirements, including corporate, tax, audit, and public-sector governance frameworks. - Provide assurance to the Board and Audit Committee on financial reporting integrity, internal controls, and risk exposures. - Oversee responses to statutory, internal, and regulatory audits. - Provide strategic oversight of corporate tax governance, including compliance, withholding obligations, indirect tax exposure, cross-border tax matters, and management of tax audits or litigation.
Financial Planning & Control Oversight
- Provide strategic oversight of annual budgets, revised estimates, forecasts and multi-year financial plans. - Review financial performance, material variances, cash-flow projections, and financial commitments. - Ensure robust expenditure governance, control frameworks, and financial accountability.
Revenue & Sustainability Framework
- Oversee service-charge structures, user fees, funding arrangements, and other approved revenue streams. - Review cost-recovery models and financial sustainability projections. - Ensure strong revenue assurance mechanisms covering billing, collection, reconciliation, and financial system integrity.
Technology & Investment Oversight
- Provide financial oversight of technology investments, ERP systems, digital payments, and platform infrastructure. - Review business cases, lifecycle costs, financial risks, and return on investment for major initiatives. Procurement, and Risk Governance - Provide executive oversight of procurement governance and contract financial terms. - Ensure financial risk management, fraud prevention controls, and segregation-of-duties frameworks are effective and enforced. - Ensure robust tax governance frameworks covering vendor taxation, contractual tax clauses, and statutory withholding compliance.
Stakeholder Management and Leadership
- Engage with regulators, ministries, auditors, financial institutions, donors, and strategic stakeholders. - Lead the Finance & Procurement function through the senior leadership team, promoting integrity, transparency, and performance excellence.
Requirements
- Member of a professional accounting body recognized by IFAC (e.g., ICAP, ICMAP, CPA), in good standing. - Minimum 16–20 years of relevant experience, including at least 5 years in a senior finance leadership role (CFO / Director Finance / Head of Finance or equivalent), with demonstrated exposure to Board-level reporting, governance and strategic financial management. - Proven ability to navigate public sector regulations, compliance, and reporting requirements. - Experience in technology-enabled organizations or large-scale transformation initiatives will be an advantage. - Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex financial data and trends. - Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, for effective engagement with internal and external stakeholders. - Strong leadership skills, including team development and mentorship.
Benefits
- Competitive salary - Fuel Card - Health benefits - Professional development opportunities - Inclusive work culture & much more
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