Chief Financial Officer

# Chief Financial Officer > Weekday AI · Nigeria (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-05 **Salary:** INR 8,000,000–10,800,000 **Workplace:** remote **Department:** Weekday's Client via platform ## Description **This role is for one of Weekday’s clients Salary range: Rs 8000000 - Rs 10800000 (ie INR 80 - 108 LPA)** Min Experience: 15+ years Location: Nigeria, South Africa, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya, Lagos, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Ghana JobType: full-time ## Requirements **Strategic Financial Leadership** - Co-own the Group's strategic and business plans with the Group MD/CEO, ensuring financial rigour underpins growth, capacity expansion, and diversification decisions. - Lead the development of the Group's medium- and long-term financial strategy, including capital structure, funding mix and dividend policy. - Advise the Board and Executive Committee on capital allocation, investment appraisal, pricing strategy and margin management across the product portfolio. - Evaluate and lead M&A, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships, including due diligence, valuation and post-transaction integration. **Financial Planning, Reporting & Analysis** - Oversee annual budgeting, rolling forecasts and long-range financial planning across the Group and its subsidiaries. - Ensure timely, accurate and IFRS-compliant consolidated financial statements and management accounts for the Board, shareholders and regulators. - Drive commercial and manufacturing cost analytics, including cost-of-goods and input-cost sensitivity (palm oil, soybean, energy), to protect and improve margins. - Deliver Board-ready reporting packs, KPI dashboards and variance analysis that translate financial performance into actionable business insight. **Treasury, Funding & Capital Markets** - Manage the Group's liquidity, banking relationships, working capital and cash flow, with particular attention to FX exposure given the Group's reliance on imported raw materials and equipment. - Structure and negotiate debt facilities, trade finance and supply-chain financing to support operations and expansion at competitive cost. - Lead engagement with banks, DFIs, rating agencies and, where relevant, capital markets, positioning Leading Edible Oils & Agro-Industrial Group for future financing rounds or a potential public listing. - Own the Group's hedging strategy for commodity price and currency risk. **Risk, Controls, Tax & Compliance** - Establish and continuously strengthen the internal control framework, segregation of duties and financial governance across all Group entities. - Ensure full compliance with Nigerian tax legislation (FIRS, LIRS), statutory filings, and regulatory requirements from bodies including NAFDAC, SON and NESREA insofar as they carry financial or reporting implications. - Oversee enterprise risk management, insurance strategy and business continuity planning from a financial perspective. - Manage the external audit relationship and ensure timely resolution of audit findings and management letter points. **Organisational & People Leadership** - Build, mentor and lead a high-performing finance organisation across reporting, treasury, tax, FP&A and internal control. - Champion the adoption of modern ERP, financial systems and automation to improve the speed, accuracy and integrity of financial data. - Instil a culture of financial discipline, accountability and commercial ownership across the wider business, not only within the finance function. - Represent the Group in engagements with shareholders, lenders, regulators and other external stakeholders. Must-have skills international experience ## Apply [Apply at Weekday AI](https://apply.workable.com/weekday-1/j/914F128C41/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)