Key Responsibilities:

• Strategy & “Finance 2028” Roadmap: Define and lead a 3-year transformation plan to align our financial organization, systems, and talent with the group’s massive growth ambitions.
• Network Finance Oversight: Lead the finance operations of our school network, standardizing processes across all regions to ensure that every school operates with the same level of rigour and transparency.
• Industrialization & Shared Services: Design and launch a Finance Shared Service Center to centralize accounting operations, driving significant EBITDA gains and freeing up local school teams to focus on business partnering.
• Tech-Stack & Business Efficiency: Act as the strategic lead for Finance systems, harmonizing our software ecosystem to ensure 100% digital workflows and total data consistency between operations and accounting.
• Operational Control & “Laser” Diagnostic: Implement automated consistency checks to move the group from manual verification to high-level supervision, identifying “root cause” anomalies in real-time across the baseline.
• Leadership & Team Transformation: Mentor a diverse, pan-African team. You will shift their culture from “data-entry” mindsets to proactive “Business Partners” who challenge and influence school leadership, ensuring that every financial decision at the school level is a catalyst for performance.

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for a hybrid leader: a visionary who understands the future of finance, an expert in multi-country operations, and a mentor capable of elevating the standards of a pan-African team.

Your profile in 5 points:

• Senior Financial Expertise: Deep experience in multi-country/multi-currency consolidation and financial reporting within complex, fast-paced environments.
• Inspirational & Assertive Leader: You possess natural authority and the emotional intelligence to manage diverse, multi-country teams. You don’t just delegate; you build high-performing teams by coaching your managers and setting a clear, exciting vision.
• Tech-Champion: You have a natural affinity for technology. You know how to architect a SaaS ecosystem to ensure data flows seamlessly from the schools to the group P&L.
• Diagnostic Genius: You possess a “sixth sense” for numbers—you can spot a weak link in a process or a financial statement in minutes and propose a structural solution.
• Operational Grit: The ability to shift instantly from board-level strategy to “hands-on” field execution, ensuring that group-wide standards are perfectly executed at the local school level.