Duties and Responsibilities Lead the finance function and set clear accountability for the Chief Accountant, Treasury, and other finance contributors, ensuring strong governance, segregation of duties, capability development, and deadline ownership. Lead the annual budget and periodic forecast process, translating sales, margin, inventory, operating-cost, payroll, capital, and cash assumptions into integrated financial plans. Prepare and present monthly management reports to the CEO, including profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow, working capital, budget variance, and key commercial and operational insights. Analyze revenue, gross margin, markdowns, channel and store performance, payroll, operating expenses, inventory, and profitability and recommend actions to improve financial results. Maintain rolling cash-flow and liquidity forecasts, prioritize funding needs, oversee payment planning, and recommend transfers, financing, or other actions to meet approved obligations. Oversee banking and treasury relationships, account structure, FX requirements, bank charges, facilities, payment controls, and cash-risk management and negotiate improved terms where appropriate. Lead working-capital management by monitoring receivables, payables, inventory, consignment, branch balances, and cash-conversion drivers and assigning corrective actions. Review capital-expenditure and major-spend proposals, validate assumptions and returns, monitor approved budgets, and report significant cost, timing, or benefit variances. Partner with Buying, Retail, Logistics, E-commerce, Marketing, HR, and other departments on pricing, margin, promotions, inventory, staffing, contracts, and investment decisions.

Desired Candidate Profile

Qualifications Education Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field. A professional qualification such as CPA, CMA, ACCA, CFA, or equivalent, or a relevant postgraduate degree, is strongly preferred. Experience 8-12 years of progressive finance, accounting, audit, FP&A, or financial-control experience, including at least 4 years in a finance-management or broad senior-leadership role. Demonstrated ownership of budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, cash flow, working capital, financial analysis, controls, statutory governance, and executive decision support. Experience reviewing financial close and statutory compliance, managing auditors and banks, and translating financial results into clear business recommendations. Experience in retail, distribution, multi-branch, e-commerce, inventory-intensive, multi-entity, or multi-currency operations is strongly preferred. Proven experience leading finance teams, partnering with operational executives, and delivering ERP, reporting, control, or process-transformation initiatives.