Head of Finance & Admin
Red Lime (Pvt) Ltd
Total years of experience :31 years, 0 Months
Providing effective financial leadership to a finance team, to enable strategic foresight into the business and also provide knowledgeable and accurate information to colleagues and senior management.
Responsibilities:
• Overseeing all aspects of financial control in the business.
• Providing financial, commercial and strategic support to the business.
• Preparation of management information from source data.
• Producing monthly management accounts, budget, forecast & Tax returns.
• Presenting monthly results, budget variances and ad-hoc analysis.
• Involved in the Business Planning, P&L, Balance sheet & liquidity planning.
• Overseeing internal financial controls. Recording of monies received and paid out.
• Producing meaningful commentary and analysis of financial data.
• Preparation and reporting of income and expense forecasts to senior management.
• Developing, managing and motivating a team of finance professionals.
• Reviewing new & existing business models and capital appropriation requests.
• Worked as part of a multi site/multi culture organisation.
• Identify and develop controls and processes to ensure all risks and opportunities are highlighted.
• To establish and maintain cordial relationship with government departments and other related institutions. E.g. Department of Inland Revenue, Labour Department, Banks etc.
• Training and coaching the other staff for purposes of ensuring that their accounting and analysis duties are done well.
Other Responsibilities
• Manages the Client Services Executives
• Accurately performs registration process for new and existing clients
• Make reminder calls to clients
• Receiving creative changes from clients, relaying those changes to creative staff and supervising the account’s finances
• Ensure strong negotiation resulting in breakthrough, efficient and effective media deals. Identify unique media buying opportunities. Negotiate directly with vendors on occasion
• Manage media budgets and execution of authorized plans, Release orders and media payments. Approve advertising billing and invoices for payment.
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Baros Resort and Nakatchafushi Resort
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Working across departments to enable joined up decision making based upon financial data. Ensuring that the decision makers in the firm understand the financial implication of the missions they set for their company in a specific period.
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