Finance Operations Manager responsible for AP, AR, and financial controls at ProCook. Leading financial policies and improving efficiency with a hybrid work model.
About the role
- Finance Systems PMO Consultant leading finance systems transformation for sustainable development in Africa. Overseeing reporting quality, system usability, and finance effectiveness as a hands-on role.
Responsibilities
- Define finance system requirements aligned to current operations and growth ambitions
- Design a target-state finance systems architecture (ERP, treasury, reporting)
- Review existing finance processes, controls, and reporting flows
- Assess current systems (Sage ERP, Kyriba Treasury Management System) for functional fit, scalability, and integration
- Identify pain points, inefficiencies, and reporting breakdowns
- Determine whether existing systems can be optimised or require replacement
- Develop clear business cases and recommendations for system changes or new solutions
- Support vendor evaluation and selection if new systems are required
- Act as PMO for finance systems transformation
- Translate finance requirements into executable IT workstreams
- Coordinate closely with IT teams based in Madagascar (and potentially Senegal)
- Manage timelines, dependencies, risks, and stakeholders
- Redesign management and financial reporting structures
- Improve data quality, consistency, and ownership
- Enable clearer visibility for leadership and investors
- Drive transition decisively, challenging legacy ways of working
- Support user adoption within the finance team based in Kenya
- Document processes, system usage, and governance to ensure sustainability
Requirements
- Proven delivery of finance systems transformation or finance PMO engagements
- Experience within renewable energy, power generation, infrastructure, or capital-intensive asset businesses
- Strong preference for prior work with Independent Power Producers (IPPs)
- Experience operating in African or emerging market contexts
- Finance systems assessment and target-state design
- ERP implementation, optimisation, or replacement experience (accounting, close, controls)
- Treasury management systems experience (cash, liquidity, FX, debt)
- Management reporting and data structure design
- Strong PMO discipline across business and IT
- Fluent in English and French (essential)
- Confident, pragmatic, and willing to challenge constructively
- Strong stakeholder management across Finance leadership and technical IT teams
- Able to operate with ambiguity and incomplete documentation
- Comfortable working with distributed teams across multiple countries
- Able to operate hands-on within a lean organisation (~70 employees)
- Willing to engage closely with both strategic and operational details.
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