Company Profile

BRAC Ghana Savings and Loans Ltd (BGSL), is a socially responsible for-profit organization, engaging people, especially women in sustainable economic and income generating activities Ghana. Our mission is to provide a range of financial services responsibly to people at the bottom of the pyramid. BGSL is part of BRAC International Holdings B.V (BIHBV) which operates in seven countries across Africa and Asia.

Job Description

• Duty Station: Accra

• Prepare all Group reports for review and submission by CFO
• Prepare notes for Group reports in the FCCS on monthly basis
• Prepare, validate and send GDPC returns on monthly basis
• Lead the preparation of Board papers 
• Prepare weekly management reports with ratios and analysis
• Manage the timely production, coordination, review, preparation, and submission of financial and economic regulatory returns for BGSL financial regulatory reports to Bank of Ghana (BoG)
• Support the collation of monthly regulatory reporting by planning, coordinating, facilitating, and assisting with the submission for all regulatory credit and operational risk returns
• Plan and coordinate ad-hoc regulatory reporting changes, new requirements, and projects
• Manage systems and processes required for successful compilation and submission of regulatory returns
• Be the finance lead for implementation and set-up of reporting systems such as ORASS and DAR.
• Review team output to provide useful and insightful information based on regulatory returns

• Establish a safeguarding culture across all levels of the programme by implementing the safeguarding policy. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
• Responsible to ensure team members are appropriately trained, supported and have access to resources regarding issues that are identified and actioned in accordance with the safeguarding policy and procedure.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Required Skills or Experience

• 10 years of relevant work experience, 5 of which should have been a senior management position in a similar organisation
• Experience in financial services sector
• Experience with managing complex reporting, budgeting, audit and compliance in INGO with multiple country orientation

• Financial accounting
• Financial system setup and development
• Financial reporting
• Project budgeting and cost control
• Audit and compliance
• Financial management skills
• Financial and BRAC operations policies and procedures
• Internal controls assessment
• Fraud detection & control
• Financial performance analysis

• Minimum bachelor’s degree/master’s in finance or accounting or relevant subjects.
• Recognized Professional Qualification on Finance and Accounting such as ICA Ghana, ACCA or CPA is preferred. Finance, Accounting