Job title: Chief Finance Officer
Company: The Place
Job description: Company DescriptionThe Place – We are a fast growing, world class, and dynamic, multi-billion Nigerian conglomerates, established and managed by a team of professionals with decades of management consulting and accounting experience/ training from Arthur Andersen (now KPMG in Nigeria). We are a profitable player in the QSR sector of the Hospitality industry in Nigeria with great prospects and staff strength of over 4000 employees. Currently, our operations span across 35 locations in Lagos, Ilorin, Abeokuta and Abuja, Nigeria, with rapid expansion plans to penetrate more locations in the short to medium term.Our current management team consists of experienced hands with over 26 years of experience that spans industry as well as management consulting in foremost multinational professional services companies.We are constantly on the lookout for great talents who will work with us to build a brand that is passionate about delivering excellent services to our customers.So, if you are looking for exciting opportunities for self and career growth: YOU are the TALENT we are looking for!Job DescriptionWe are a leading, fast-growing restaurant in Nigeria. Our aggressive growth plan now includes our already commenced branches rollout in the USA, in addition to our continued growth across Nigeria. We require a transformative C-suite accountant to join our team to improve our cost reduction, revenue assurance, general controls, financial reporting and overall profit improvement drive.The ideal candidate should be able to review financial processes, work with the CEO to identify, document and implement improvement, incorporating better use of technology, and better staffing and organization structures.Key transformation areas include but not limited to:
- Improving robust arrangements for always ensuring up to date identification of most direct competitive sources for purchasing main goods and services; and ensuring competitive bidding for all key purchases
- Production controls and accounting
- Revenue assurance
- Instituting good controls in other cost areas such as fuel and energy costs, transportation costs etc
- Efficient and effective inventory and inventory levels management
- Fixed assets management/ control
- Staffing efficiency
- Review of monthly financial reports to identify issues and improvement opportunities
Qualifications
- We prefer someone with experience working at a senior-level capacity within the audit team (specialized with consumer markets: manufacturing, distribution and retail clients) at a major audit firm like EY, Deloitte, Abas OOXA, BDO, PKF, Grant Thornton, Crowe Darionne, SIAO
- Minimum of 2:1 first degree or minimum of upper credit HND from renowned tertiary institution is desirable.
- Three (3) years of experience in overseeing the finances of a similar company that has fully integrated computerized accounting system; multiple business locations; multiple inventory locations and multiple production accounting locations.
Additional InformationOur remuneration is very attractive and includes our profit-sharing scheme
Expected salary:
Location: Lagos, Lagos State
Job date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 22:15:42 GMT