Financial Controler

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Obek Group seeks a Micro-Enterprise Financial Controller to manage financial health, day-to-day accounting, and unit economics of autonomous business units. The role involves cash runway management, unit economics optimization, internal ledger management, and compliance with group guardrails.

• Partner directly with internal entrepreneurs to drive profitable growth.
• Responsible for real-time cash position and P&L for each micro-enterprise.
• Requires 3-5 years of accounting or financial management experience.

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Find a Job + + + + Search Financial Controler Obek Group Accounting, Auditing & Finance 4 weeks ago Easy apply Rest of Nigeria (Anambra) Full Time Construction Confidential Share link Share on WhatsApp Share on LinkedIn Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via SMS Job summary We are a group of companies structured in a micro-enterprise model; hence, our finance department is also a micro-enterprise that functions as an internal banking and related financial services enterprise. Our financial control sits at the heart of the growth model, providing guidance and information needed to drive our growth. We are seeking a commercially minded Micro-Enterprise Financial Controller" to manage the financial health, day-to-day accounting, and unit economics of our autonomous business units. You will partner directly with ME Leaders (our internal entrepreneurs) to help them run their businesses profitably, manage their cash runway, and navigate the internal platform mechanics. You will bridge the gap between entrepreneurial speed and financial discipline—ensuring that while the ME moves fast, it remains profitable, compliant with group guardrails, and deeply aware of its numbers. Min Qualification: MBA / MSc Experience Level: Mid level Experience Length: 3 years Language Requirement: English Working Hours: Full Time - 8 to 5 Applicant Location: Anambra, Nigeria Job descriptions & requirements Responsibilities: Embedded Financial Co-Piloting & Strategy: Runway & Cash Management: Maintain real-time visibility into each ME's cash position. Help ME leaders : Manage their internal funding, tracking incoming revenue against operating expenses to forecast runway. Unit Economics Optimisation: Work side-by-side with ME leaders to analyze the profitability of their specific products, services, or projects. Help them price their offerings to ensure healthy margins. Scenario Planning: Build lightweight, agile financial models to help ME leaders answer questions like "Can we afford to hire another developer next month?"* or *"What happens to our margin if we drop our price by 10%? Ecosystem Accounting & Internal Transactions: Internal Ledger Management: Oversee the day-to-day bookkeeping and ledger maintenance for your assigned MEs using our automated platform tools. Transfer Pricing & Settlement: Track and execute transactions between different MEs and settle the platform service fees owed back to the parent group. P&L Ownership: Produce accurate, weekly/monthly profit-and-loss statements for each micro-enterprise, ensuring every cost and revenue stream is properly attributed. Guardrail Compliance & Reporting: Early Warning Systems: Monitor MEs against group financial guardrails (e.g., minimum margin requirements, maximum loss thresholds). Alert both the ME Leader and the Head of Finance if a unit is trending toward a risk zone. Group Roll-Up: Clean and prepare the ME’s financial data for seamless consolidation into the parent group's overarching financial statements. Requirements: A minimum of 3-5 years of hands-on accounting or financial management experience. Backgrounds in startup finance, fractional accounting agencies, or divisional accounting are highly valued. You can look at a complex ledger and translate it into simple, actionable business advice for an internal founder who may not be "numbers people." You are comfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities. You prefer building dynamic tracking sheets over filling out rigid corporate bureaucratic forms Strong proficiency with modern cloud accounting software (e.g., Xero, QuickBooks Online, or scalable ERPs) and advanced Excel/Google Sheets skills. A Typical Week in This Role Might Look Like: Monday: Reviewing the weekly P&L flash report with an ME Leader to see if their new marketing spend translated to profitable growth. Wednesday : Reconciling internal transfer bills between two MEs that partnered on a client project. Friday: Modelling out a new profit-sharing distribution for an ME team that just hit their quarterly milestone, then reporting the data up to the group head of finance. The Core Shift: In a traditional company, a controller enforces strict, pre-approved line-item budgets. In our model, you don't enforce budget, you manage cash runway and unit economics. If an ME is profitable and has the cash, they can spend it. Your job is to make sure they know exactly how much they have and where it's going. Log In and Apply Important safety tips Do not make any payment without confirming with the Jobberman Customer Support Team. If you think this advert is not genuine, please report it via the Report Job link below. Report Job Log in to apply now Continue with Google Continue with Linkedin Or continue with Forgot Password? Keep me logged in Log in Don't have an account? 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