Chief Finance Officer at The Place
The Smackers Limited started operations in 2006 with her flagship trademark The Place Restaurant on Isaac John GRA, Ikeja Lagos. Over the last decade we have progressively grown and now operate in the food services and hospitality business. We are a company that believes in creating a better everyday life. We exist to satisfy the changing taste and expectations of consumers as we best understand and satisfy the food and pleasure need of customers.Job Overview
We require a transformative C-suite accountant to join our team to improve our cost reduction, revenue assurance, general controls, financial reporting and overall profit improvement drive.
The ideal candidate should be able to review financial processes, work with the CEO to identify, document and implement improvement, incorporating better use of technology, and better staffing and organization structures.
Responsibilities
Key transformation areas include but not limited to:
Improving robust arrangements for always ensuring up to date identification of most direct competitive sources for purchasing main goods and services; and ensuring competitive bidding for all key purchases
Production controls and accounting
Revenue assurance
Instituting good controls in other cost areas such as fuel and energy costs, transportation costs etc
Efficient and effective inventory and inventory levels management
Fixed assets management/ control
Staffing efficiency
Review of monthly financial reports to identify issues and improvement opportunities.
Qualifications
We prefer someone with experience working at a senior-level capacity within the audit team (specialized with consumer markets: manufacturing, distribution and retail clients) at a major audit firm like EY, Deloitte, Abas OOXA, BDO, PKF, Grant Thornton, Crowe Darionne, SIAO
Minimum of 2:1 first degree or minimum of upper credit HND from renowned tertiary institution is desirable.
Three (3) years of experience in overseeing the finances of a similar company that has fully integrated computerized accounting system; multiple business locations; multiple inventory locations and multiple production accounting locations.
