Head of Finance Projects (2 years' contract)

Job Description - Finance and Procurement Transformation - Drive the review and assessment of existing finance and procurement processes, policies, controls, and systems to identify improvement opportunities. - Conduct gap analyses against industry best practices, regulatory requirements, and organizational objectives. - Develop and execute transformation roadmaps to improve efficiency, effectiveness, controls, user experience, and data quality. - Evaluate current technology landscape and identify opportunities for automation, digitalization, system enhancements, and process simplification. - Prepare business cases and/or cost-benefit analyses for proposed transformation initiatives. - Recommend target operating models, process redesigns, governance frameworks, and system solutions. - Lead implementation of approved initiatives, including project planning, stakeholder management, change management, testing, training, and post-implementation reviews. - Collaborate with finance, procurement, IT, operations, and business teams to ensure successful adoption of new processes and systems. - Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure transformation outcomes and benefits realization. - Drive continuous improvement initiatives and foster a culture of operational excellence. - Strategic Investments and Corporate Finance - Lead the financial evaluation of strategic investment, acquisition, divestment, and partnership opportunities. - Develop, review, and challenge valuation analyses using appropriate methodologies, including Discounted Cash Flow (DCF), Precedent Transactions Analysis, Asset-based valuation approaches. - Build and maintain detailed financial models to assess investment returns, funding requirements, sensitivities, and risks. - Conduct financial, commercial, and strategic due diligence on potential investment or divestment opportunities. - Prepare investment papers, financial analyses, and recommendations for management, board, parent company, and government stakeholders. - Support negotiations relating to commercial terms, valuation, transaction structures, shareholder arrangements, and financing. - Monitor portfolio investments and evaluate post-investment performance against approved business cases. - Provide strategic financial insights to support corporate planning and growth initiatives. - CFO-Assigned Projects - Lead and deliver any other projects or assignments as directed by the CFO. - Provide project leadership, coordination, analysis, and recommendations to support the successful execution of key corporate initiatives. - Manage cross-functional teams and stakeholders to ensure project objectives, timelines, and deliverables are achieved. - Support the CFO in evaluating and prioritizing new project opportunities aligned with the organization's strategic objectives. - Stakeholder and Government Engagement - Engage senior internal and external stakeholders to obtain alignment and support for key initiatives. - Present recommendations, business cases, project updates, and investment proposals to senior management and governance committees. - Manage external advisors, consultants, valuation experts, auditors, and legal counsel as required. - Serve as the primary liaison (jointly with CFO) and coordinate submissions, approvals, and reporting requirements to the parent company and relevant ministries on investment matters. - Governance, Risk and Compliance - Ensure assigned projects comply with corporate governance requirements, regulatory obligations, and internal policies. - Identify and mitigate project, operational, financial, and implementation risks. - Strengthen internal controls and governance frameworks across finance and procurement functions. - Ensure transparency, accountability, and robustness in investment evaluation and decision-making processes. The Requirements - Bachelor’s in Finance/Accounting/Economics/Business; professional qualification preferred; MBA advantageous. - More than 10 years in finance, corporate finance, investments, transformation, consulting, procurement, strategy or project leadership. - Business transformation, process improvement, financial modelling & valuation, investment/M&A analysis, finance & procurement processes, ERP (SAP/Oracle). - Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional projects and engage senior stakeholders, government agencies and large corporates. - Strategic thinking, commercial acumen, business case development, benefits realisation, project/change management, strong analytical and problem-solving skills. - Strong stakeholder influence, communication/presentation, execution focus, integrity and professionalism.

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