Cross-Border Transaction Review & Consolidation▸ Receive, validate, and reconcile transactions posted by local accounting teams across 6–7 African countries and their multiple site locations.▸ Identify posting errors, classification issues, or missing entries and coordinate corrections with country-level teams.▸ Perform inter-company reconciliations and eliminate intra-group balances for consolidated reporting.▸ Maintain a master ledger and ensure all subsidiary data feeds are complete, timely, and accurate before any report is prepared.Financial Reporting & Management Accounts▸ Prepare accurate and insightful monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements — P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow — at both entity and group consolidated level.▸ Translate multi-currency, multi-location data into a unified reporting pack for senior management and Group leadership.▸ Provide budget-vs-actual variance analysis with clear, concise commentary explaining deviations and recommending corrective actions.▸ Present financial dashboards and KPI summaries that give management a real-time pulse on group performance.Costing & Profitability Analysis▸ Conduct detailed cost analysis across product lines, service categories, and geographies to identify margin drivers and cost inefficiencies.▸ Build and maintain costing models that allow management to assess the true profitability of each country operation and business unit.▸ Analyse operational expenditure patterns and flag anomalies or budget overruns proactively.▸ Support pricing decisions and business case evaluations with data-driven costing insights.Accounts Payable, Receivable & Payroll▸ Oversee end-to-end AP/AR cycles, ensuring timely vendor payments, accurate invoicing, and healthy cash collection.▸ Conduct regular bank reconciliations and ensure all accounts are closed cleanly at period end.▸ Supervise payroll processing in compliance with UAE Labour La w and coordinate with HR on headcount and benefits data.Internal Controls & Audit Liaison▸ Design and enforce internal control frameworks to prevent fraud, misstatement, and financial discrepancies across all entities.▸ Serve as the primary point of contact for external auditors during year-end audit processes; prepare audit schedules and respond to queries.▸ Ensure all financial practices and disclosures comply with IFRS, and proactively flag any gaps or risks to senior management.▸ Document standard operating procedures for accounting and finance workflows to create consistency across the group.