Group Chief Finance Officer (CFO) Abuja

The Group Chief Finance Officer (CFO) at Emeraid Group is responsible for leading financial strategy, managing budgets, overseeing cash flow and financial reporting, and ensuring strong financial controls. The role requires at least 10 years of finance experience, including leadership roles.

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Emeraid Group is a development and enterprise conglomerate consolidating specialised subsidiaries across advisory, enterprise support, financial structuring, and asset-backed financing. Support in development and enterprise is too often delivered in fragments: training without financing, funding without a plan, programmes that don't outlast their pilot phase. Emeraid Group exists to close that gap.

We bring advisory, capacity building, financial structuring, asset deployment, and technology together as one coordinated system and working end-to-end, from diagnostic to delivery, so that every intervention leads to measurable, lasting outcomes. We are  recruiting to fill the position below:

 Job Title: Group Chief Finance Officer (CFO)

Location: Abuja, Nigeria About EIG

EIG is developing a lean shared-services platform supporting its businesses and projects across development advisory, enterprise development, renewable energy and related commercial activities. The Group seeks a finance leader who can combine executive judgement with practical financial execution.

The Opportunity

The CFO will protect liquidity, improve financial visibility, prepare financeable growth opportunities and strengthen accountability across the Group. This is a hands-on leadership role: the successful candidate must be able to interrogate a cash-flow model, review a project budget, organise a funding process and explain a difficult financial decision clearly to the CEO and Board.

Core Responsibilities

Lead financial strategy, annual budgets, rolling forecasts and capital-allocation recommendations; test the affordability of new commitments. Own a rolling 13-week cash forecast, payment planning, working-capital management, receivables follow-up and foreign-currency exposure analysis. Coordinate debt, equity and structured-finance preparation: financial models, data rooms, lender engagement, due diligence, drawdown conditions and covenant monitoring. Deliver reliable entity-level and Group management reporting, with reconciliations, intercompany transparency and clear explanations of profit, cash and risk. Oversee project and grant finance, contract economics, restricted funds, results-based funding claims and shared-cost allocation. Build proportionate controls, strengthen the existing finance team and reduce routine dependence on the Group CEO without weakening oversight. The CFO reports directly to the CEO and has access to the Board or its designated committee on material financial matters. The role does not report through the COO.

A relevant Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or a related discipline, or an equivalent qualification pathway supported by substantial relevant experience. A completed professional accounting qualification such as ICAN, ACCA or a recognised equivalent, with membership/good standing capable of verification. At least 10 years of progressive finance experience, including at least four years leading a finance function, substantial project-finance portfolio or multi-entity finance team. Evidence of personal ownership of cash-flow decisions, management reporting, control improvements, commercial analysis and senior-management or Board reporting. Direct experience preparing or executing financing transactions, including modelling, lender/investor due diligence or negotiations; explain personal contribution rather than simply quoting funds raised. Strong spreadsheet modelling, accounting-systems capability and ability to lead a lean team in a founder-led organisation. Experience in at least two of the following is advantageous: professional services/development consulting; donor-funded programmes; renewable energy/EPC/infrastructure; asset finance or a multi-company business. A relevant master's degree is useful but not mandatory. A previous CFO title is not essential where the executive capability is evidenced.

What success will look like

Within the first 90 days, the CFO should establish credible cash visibility, reliable management reporting, a prioritised control-remediation plan, a documented funding pipeline and a clear operating rhythm with the CEO, COO and finance staff.

21st November, 2026. How to Apply

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Selection includes structured interviews, a timed practical assessment based on a fictional scenario, and proportionate verification. Candidates will be assessed consistently on demonstrated hands-on capability and sound judgement, not titles or presentation alone. Reasonable adjustments will be considered. Current employers will not be contacted without prior candidate consent. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.