Chief Financial Officer

Open position
Chief Financial Officer
BlueHarbor has no finance function, and its governance framework says so rather than pretending otherwise. Six non-waivable interim financial controls apply until a finance lead is appointed. This is the appointment that retires them.
Tema, Greater Accra, Ghana

• Full time
  

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The role
Chief Financial Officer
Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, accountable to the Board for financial governance, and building the function from its foundations.
The Chief Financial Officer establishes the Company's finance function and owns its financial governance.
Responsibilities
What the holder will do

• Establish the Company's finance function — structure, systems, controls, reporting calendar and team.
• Own financial governance: budgeting, expenditure control, banking and payment controls, cash-flow planning, and the authority bands set out in the Delegation of Authority Matrix.
• Lead financial reporting to management and the Board, and prepare the Company for external audit.
• Steward capital: preservation, responsible deployment, and the transition from initial capital support to contract-generated revenue and sustainable operations.
• Lead commercial and financial structuring of engagements, including project costing, pricing and margin discipline.
• Support the financial structuring of infrastructure and public–private partnership opportunities, including project finance, consortium arrangements and project-specific special purpose entities.
• Build the Company's readiness for engagement with banks, development finance institutions, export credit agencies and investors, including the financial due diligence such counterparties apply.
• Ensure compliance with Ghanaian tax, statutory and regulatory financial obligations.
  

Requirements
What the office requires

• A chartered accountant in good standing — ICAG, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.
• Substantial post-qualification experience in a financial leadership role, with demonstrable experience of building or materially strengthening a finance function.
• Sound command of financial controls, governance and reporting to an international standard.
• Experience of project finance, infrastructure or engineering-sector finance is an advantage.
• The judgement to say no to a commercially attractive proposition that the Company cannot responsibly fund.
  

What we are looking for
The first Chief Financial Officer of a company sets the standard every subsequent one inherits. We are looking for someone who wants that responsibility rather than a seat in an established function.
How to apply
Applications
Apply to apply@bhmarine.co with Chief Financial Officer as the subject line. Location: Tema, Greater Accra, Ghana.
BlueHarbor charges no fee, deposit or deduction at any stage of recruitment or selection.
Also open: Company Secretary
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