BRIEF DESCRIPTIONThe Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is responsible for financial governance, reporting, systems, capital raising, investment oversight, and stakeholder engagement for a multi-entity Group. The role requires strategic leadership and compliance with financial regulations.
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Santus Consulting is an indigenous Human Resources Consulting brand renowned for superior services delivered by an enviable team of qualified experts and a highly experienced HR Team.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Chief Financial Officer
Location: CBD Abuja (FCT)
Employment Type: Full-time
Industry: Group of Companies (Agriculture, Energy, Tech, Mining, Real Estate, Finance etc)
Role Overview
The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is a strategic leadership position responsible for establishing and maintaining financial governance across a multi-entity Group, ensuring financial accuracy, strengthening internal controls, and facilitating access to external capital.
The CFO oversees the Group’s financial architecture, financial reporting, treasury, taxation, audit, capital structuring, and financial systems.
The role combines financial leadership, investment oversight, institutional credibility, and strategic capital management.
Key ResponsibilitiesFinancial Governance and Reporting:Ensure accurate, complete, and reliable financial records across the Group.
Oversee financial statements, IFRS consolidation, taxation, audit, valuation, provisions, impairments, and financial disclosures.
Certify financial statements and representations made to auditors, lenders, and regulators.
Establish financial reporting standards, controls, and accountability frameworks.
Financial Systems and Internal Controls:Govern the Group’s accounting and audit systems, ensuring appropriate calibration, acceptance, oversight, and independent verification.
Establish and maintain finance processes, policies, manuals, and control frameworks.
Ensure payment controls, dual authorisation, cash visibility, and liquidity management.
Maintain a weekly cash position and rolling thirteen-week cash forecast.
Capital Raising and Financing:Develop and implement the Group’s capital and financing architecture.
Lead engagement with banks, development finance institutions, and other financing partners.
Structure external financing, manage lender requirements, covenants, and financing relationships.
Establish a Group Financing Protocol to ensure efficient access to capital.
Ensure financing decisions are supported by credible financial records and appropriate governance.
Investment and Capital Allocation:Participate as a voting member of the Investment Committee.
Review investment proposals, financial models, capital plans, valuations, and investment returns.
Establish financial appraisal standards and hurdle rates.
Assess capital releases against approved conditions.
Monitor portfolio performance, liquidity, concentration, and capital efficiency.
Stakeholder and Regulatory Engagement:Maintain relationships with auditors, banks, regulators, revenue authorities, and development finance institutions.
Represent the Group in financial, regulatory, tax, and financing engagements.
Ensure compliance with applicable financial reporting, taxation, and regulatory requirements.
Maintain institutional relationships and records under the Group’s name.
Leadership and Financial Partnership:Lead the Finance Department and establish a function that operates effectively and independently.
Set financial standards for subsidiary finance officers and oversee reporting across the Group.
Partner with investment directors on financial modelling, valuations, financing, and capital plans.
Provide independent financial judgement and challenge decisions where financial integrity or controls are at risk.
Key Requirements
Membership in good standing of ICAN or ANAN.
Current registration with the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN).
Experience managing multi-entity IFRS consolidation, including complex group accounting, deferred tax, financial instruments, and leases.
Proven experience establishing a finance function to audit readiness or remediating a qualified audit opinion.
Demonstrable experience raising external capital, from initial engagement through drawdown, and managing financing covenants.
Experience representing organisations before revenue authorities during audits or disputes.
Knowledge of Nigerian taxation, including transfer pricing and electronic invoicing.
Experience participating in investment committees or board-level capital allocation decisions.
Treasury experience, including managing currency-related financial risks.
RemunerationN1,500,000.00 - N2,500,000.00 Gross (90 Days Probationary).
Application Closing Date
8th November, 2026.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [Email hidden - Login to reveal] using the Job Title as the subject of the email. E.g. Chief Financial Officer
In the body of your email, respond to these questions;
Where do you reside? Eg Wuse 2, Abuja.
Which of these are you a member of?ICAN, ANAN.
Are you a member of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria?
