The Finance Manager will lead and oversee the full finance and accounting function for a mining supply and engineering company based in Ghana. The role reports directly to the President and is responsible for supervising the finance team, maintaining accurate financial records, strengthening controls, managing cash flow, and ensuring timely management reporting.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
- Managing and supervising the full finance and accounting team
- Overseeing daily finance operations and ensuring all accounting activities are completed accurately and on time
- Preparing and reviewing financial documents such as invoices, bills, accounts payable, and accounts receivable
- Managing cash flow planning and working capital requirements
- Coordinating banking activities, supplier payments, customer collections, international payments, and foreign currency transactions
- Handling letters of credit, bank guarantees, and related banking documentation
- Preparing monthly MIS reports for management review
- Preparing financial reports and loss statements, balance sheets, cash flow reports, debtor ageing, creditor ageing, and budget variance reports
- Compiling financial reports on a regular basis and providing accurate information to management
- Preparing annual budgets and assisting with financial forecasting
- Monitoring monthly budgeting tasks and reporting on budget variances
- Completing bank reconciliations and verifying bank deposits
- Managing company ledgers and ensuring all accounts are properly maintained
- Processing and reviewing business expenses
- Recording office expenditures and ensuring these expenses are within the approved budget
- Managing day to day transactions and ensuring all entries are posted correctly
- Overseeing payroll processing and ensuring accuracy before payroll approval
- Handling accruals, prepayments, and year end analysis
- Reporting to debtors and creditors and ensuring timely follow up on outstanding balances
- Overseeing inventory accounting, costing, landed cost calculations, and project based accounting
- Supporting import and export documentation from a finance and accounting perspective
- Ensuring proper use of financial information in Tally and ERP systems
- Ensuring proper use of accounting software and maintaining accurate records
- Coordinating internal and external audits and ensuring audit requirements are completed on time
- Verifying and filing statutory compliance, audit preparation, and year end finalization handled by the finance team
- Verifying financial statements and rectifying discrepancies
- Reviewing customer accounts for accuracy and tracing errors back to their sources
- Resolving financial discrepancies and ensuring records are properly maintained
- Strengthening internal controls for payments, receipts, banking, inventory, approvals, and reporting
- Providing financial analysis and recommendations to support management decisions
CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS:
- Minimum 20 plus years of experience in accounting, finance, and financial management
- M.Com from a recognized university in India
- MBA in Finance will be an added advantage
- Inter-CA / ICWAI will be preferred
- Experience managing a full finance and accounting team
- Strong experience with financial reporting requirements
- Strong knowledge of cash flow planning, working capital management, banking, supplier payments, and customer collections
- Experience with Tally and ERP systems
- Advanced Excel skills, including financial models, pivot tables, MIS dashboards, budgeting, and analysis
- Experience with inventory accounting, costing, import and export documentation, and project based accounting
- Experience handling multiple currencies, international payments, LC documentation, and bank guarantees
- Experience coordinating internal and external audits
- Strong knowledge of budgeting, reconciliations, payroll, accruals, prepayments, ledgers, debtors, creditors, and year end analysis
- Experience in mining supply, engineering, equipment supply, trading, or a related industry
- Strong leadership, communication, problem solving, and time management skills
- High level of accuracy, integrity, confidentiality, and professional judgment
💰 SALARY PACKAGE: $2500 🏠 + ACCOMMODATION 🚗 + TRANSPORT 🌍 + ALL OTHER EXPAT BENEFITS
Salary
Competitive
Monthly based
Location
Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana
Job Overview
Location
Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana