Deputy General Manager

Job Description : DGM – Project Finance* for a leading mining and mineral processing company based in *Central Africa* Qualification : Qualified CA / CMA Experience: 12+ years · Candidate must have experience from *Manufacturing / Metal / Mining industries* · Should have worked in *project financing and managing large scale projects finance and accounting* · To ensure financial discipline in *Project development* and execution with key focus on cost optimisation and efficient financial support highlighting areas of key variances compared to the budget and provide recommendation. · Streamlining the *Project accounting and Financial Analysis for the future projects* · Responsible for the management and *control of project cash flows* · Relevant project experience including exposure to *capital budgeting, cost accounting and financial planning* · Actively participate with the Project team in *preparation of Project budgets* · Oversee each stage of the project and provide reports in a timely manner on time and cost overruns · Timely submission of the *MIS to the Board covering all financial aspects of the project (s) including variance analysis, financial analysis*, drilled-down cost for each of the key project areas and the project performance · Deliver complete, accurate and timely *project costing and accounting* in sync with the actual completion status of the projects with all control mechanisms in place · Present current & upcoming project(s) to the prospective *lenders for efficient fund raise* on an as needed basis · Coordinate with the lenders in *fund raising* by providing timely information · Actively participate in the *due diligence process* from the lenders on an as needed basis · *Support the financial modelling* of the project and provide insights for improvements as required · Lead and execute lenders’ reporting requirement · Ability to review existing SOPs and improve where required to ensure successful and efficient implementation · Actively participate in Project meetings · Actively participate in procurement process · Maintain strong communication with Group companies’ finance heads, business heads and HODs · This Position is reports to Operationally to CTO and functionally to CFO-Group Mining · Language Known: French or Swahili

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