Finance & Accounting Manager

Firm Overview

Renaissance Advisers (“Renaissance”) is a boutique strategy and advisory firm providing high-impact counsel to executive leadership of leading enterprises in Pakistan. The firm is known for its deep, long-term partnerships and work on complex, high-stakes strategic and transactional engagements.

Solon Capital Partners (“Solon”) is an Africa-focused investment platform pioneering innovative approaches to economic development and capital deployment in fragile and post-conflict markets.

Role Overview

Solon is seeking an experienced Finance & Accounting (F&A) Manager to play a key role in supporting accounting, financial planning and analysis, management reporting, cash-flow management and financial compliance across Solon and its portfolio companies.

The F&A Manager will lead the Lahore-based finance and accounting team while coordinating closely with finance colleagues, senior management, and country and project teams based primarily in North America, Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa.

The F&A Manager will ensure that management has access to accurate, timely and forward-looking financial information to support effective decision-making. Combining financial planning and analysis with hands-on financial management and team supervision, the successful candidate will develop forecasts and financial models, strengthen reporting and internal controls, monitor project finances, and coordinate financial reporting for management, investors, boards and other external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Financial planning and analysis

• Coordinate the annual budgeting process, including inputs from country, project and functional teams.
• Prepare periodic forecasts and longer-term financial plans based on operational priorities and anticipated funding requirements.
• Analyze actual financial performance against budgets and forecasts, clearly explaining significant variances.

Cash-flow and financial management

• Monitor cash balances, expected receipts, expenditure commitments and future funding requirements.
• Coordinate the planning of funding drawdowns, project expenditures and other significant financial commitments.
• Maintain appropriate visibility over cash requirements across projects, entities and operating locations.

Management, board and investor reporting

• Manage the preparation of accurate and timely monthly management accounts and reporting packs.
• Prepare or review financial reports required by investors, institutional funders and other external stakeholders.
• Ensure that information presented to management and external stakeholders is accurate, consistent and supported by appropriate records.

Compliance, controls and systems

• Manage and continuously improve financial policies, internal controls, approval processes and delegated authorities.
• Coordinate statutory reporting, tax compliance, audits and other regulatory requirements, working with external advisers as required.
• Maintain a clear calendar of financial, statutory, audit and investor-reporting deadlines.
  

Experience and qualifications

• A recognized professional accounting or finance qualification such as ACCA, ACA, CPA, CIMA, MBA or an equivalent qualification.
• A minimum of 4–6 years of relevant experience in financial management, FP&A, management reporting, corporate finance or a related area ideally in senior role.
• Strong experience preparing budgets, forecasts, cash-flow models and management reports.
• Experience producing financial information for senior management, boards, investors or institutional funders.
• Good understanding of internal controls, statutory reporting, audit and financial compliance.
• Experience working across multiple projects, entities, countries or geographically distributed teams.
• Advanced Excel and financial-modelling skills.
• Experience using accounting, budgeting or reporting systems.
• Experience in climate finance, carbon markets, project finance, international development, conservation or operations in Africa would be advantageous.
• French-language capability would be advantageous but is not essential.

Working Environment

Standard business hours in Pakistan, with flexibility required for cross-border work. Fast-paced and demanding, with strong emphasis on learning and development.

Location

Lahore, Pakistan

Compensation

Renaissance/Solon offers a competitive compensation package, as well as significant opportunities for career progression, increased responsibility and advancement as the organization continues to grow.