• Financial Leadership & Strategy: Lead financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting; manage grant and investor • funded reporting. • Build, manage, and update financial models, ensuring accurate and timely projections. • Oversee financial controls, compliance, and audit preparedness. • Produce concise reports on historical and forecasted performance, highlighting variances and opportunities. • Operational Oversight & Scalability: Partner with operations leadership to institutionalize distribution processes, logistics, branch, level budgeting, inventory, and accountability systems. • Implement scalable financial and operational systems, including branch, level P&Ls, dashboards, and process documentation. • Establish robust controls and standard operating procedures (SOPs) across branches. • Grant & Stakeholder Coordination:Manage grant funding, budgeting, reporting, and compliance with donor requirements. • Support investor relations by preparing financial summaries and due diligence documentation. • Provide actionable insights to guide strategic decisions regarding scale and efficiency. • Team & Culture Development: Establish financial and operational performance standards; monitor and report on KPIs, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting to both investors and grant funders. • Recruit and mentor junior/branch level finance and operations staff as the business scales. • Drive institutionalization of process adherence and accountability throughout the organization.

• Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or Business. • At minimum, the candidate should hold CPA/ACCA or any other relevant professional certification. • Experience • 7+ years of experience in a finance role with at least 3 years at leadership level preferably in agriculture distribution, FMCG, or fast, growing early, stage ventures. • Demonstrated experience building financial models, analyzing performance and Managing diverse funding streams (including grants and equity). • Competencies & Attributes: • Exceptionally detail, oriented with disciplined, process, driven work habits. • Systems thinker: adept at designing, implementing, and enforcing processes and accountability frameworks. • Operationally savvy: hands, on experience with logistics, inventory, and budgeting across multiple locations, with strong competency in ERP tools (e.g., QuickBooks or Odoo), including setup, customization, and usage. • Strong communicator, capable of translating complex financial data into clear insights for stakeholders. • Independent and entrepreneurial: able to lead confidently in dynamic, resource constrained environments. • Aligned with Omia’s mission of empowering farmers and promoting agriculture, led growth. • Added advantage: • A Master’s degree is an added advantage.