CFO (Chief Finance Officer)

Role Context

To develop, manage, and control the country finance, controlling and administration functions, in accordance with overall finance guidelines, legal framework and accounting standards with the objective of supporting the management decision-making process in the country PLUS other countries within the sub-region and contributing to the achievement of the business objectives, whilst meeting regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in the definition of the local finance & controlling strategy, policies and procedures within overall Country context, underpinning the success of the business
• Promote cost-efficient operations with a focus on identifying cost-saving measures
• Sets directions and strategies for controlling and accounting for the country to ensure that financial transactions, policies, and procedures meet the organization's short and long-term business objectives and are conducted in accordance with regulatory standards.
• Establishes financial goals and monitors their implementation on the country level within the sub-region and ensures that a red flag system is in place to report problems in a timely manner
• Leads, directs, and controls the organization’s financial resources to maintain the short and long-term financial health of a region or market zone business.
• Owns and develops long-term financial planning for the country within the sub-region
• Approves all investments in the country PLUS other countries within the sub-region within delegated authority limits
• Ensures accurate, transparent, relevant and timely management reporting to division and executive board, including financial (CREST) and operational data
• Approves the monthly IFRS financial statement and ensures fulfilment of any IFRS / statutory/legal requirements
• Evaluates investment and acquisition business cases and coordinates the review and approval process in compliance with the DPDHL policy
• Ensures that the planning, budgeting and forecasting process complies with overall financial policies and procedures to support the achievement of strategic targets
• Continuously improves financial processes, systems, tools, and techniques
• Takes appropriate measures to remedy financial risk
• Ensures proper billing and cash collection processes are in place in the country within the sub-region
• Analyses complex issues in finance and significantly improves, changes, or adapts existing methods and techniques
• Maintains relationships and provides financial expertise to the Africa management board and top-level experts in the organisation.
• Recruits and develops the members of the finance leadership team in the country; keeps them motivated and coordinates their efforts to enhance customer service experiences for internal customers and develops staff to their maximum potential.
• Approves key personnel decisions for the function.
• Generates commitment, motivation and enthusiasm to company and division by motivating and retaining talent within DHL.
• Challenges self and others to exceed standards and achieve extraordinary results striving for best-in-class; determines team structure, roles, performance targets in co-operation with division leadership
• Evaluates performance and proposes performance-based compensation for direct staff
• Design and develop Finance architecture (org structure, job profiles, competence profiles)
• Develop performance contracts, performance targets and KPI for customer staff
• Build departmental capacity and capability to enable the achievement of finance objectives
• Align people, competencies to meet the business objectives and manage staff competency levels and performance according to service requirements and business needs
• Ensuring that all finance activities meet efficiency targets (Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in line with business objectives
• Prepares necessary frequent reports for MD, CFO SSA, SSA Area office and SMT
• Analyze records of internal customer inquiries, purchases, service requests and complaints to identify trends
• To monitor finance KPIs, standards and reporting
• Balance operational metrics against customer service metrics
• Convinces others within the organization to accept proposals and solutions where there may be little interest in cooperating or participating
• Maintains relationships and provides financial expertise to the Africa management board and top-level experts in the organization

Experience

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in financial management in an international service environment, with at least 5 years of experience in global express and/or freight forwarding business
• Excellent operational process knowledge with a strategic perspective

Expected Qualification

• Post-graduate qualification in financial management
• Honours Degree
• Professional accountancy qualification
• Excellent knowledge of IRFS, company/corporate tax
• Compliance and customs regulatory environment exposure

We are looking forward to your application.

Skills Required:

• Accounting / Finance