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You will work closely with leadership, auditors, tax advisors and lenders to keep the numbers accurate, the filings on time and the business well informed.\nThis is a hands-on role for someone with 7+ years of experience who is practical, detail-oriented and excited to run a broad finance scope with modern AI tools rather than a big team.\nYou:\nOwn the month-end close and group reporting. Oversee close, multi-entity and multi-currency consolidation, and IFRS statutory financial statements across our entities. Review key schedules, journals and reconciliations.\n\nLead audits, tax and statutory compliance. Coordinate external audits, manage auditors and tax advisors, and ensure timely and accurate tax and statutory filings across the Group.\n\nOwn the Group’s tax agenda. Manage direct and indirect taxes (corporate income tax, VAT, withholding and payroll taxes) across jurisdictions, and oversee the Group’s transfer pricing arrangements and intercompany charges.\n\nManage regulatory and business compliance. Oversee AML, licensing, business permits and other regulatory requirements across the Group, and keep compliance calendars and filings on track.\n\nRun treasury and cash management. Oversee cash flow movements and liquidity management, FX exposure and banking relationships. Collaborate on cash flow forecast.\n\nDrive budgeting and performance analysis. Lead the budget process, track actuals against plan, and give leadership clear insight into performance and outlook.\n\nOwn preparation of lender, investor and board reporting. Produce reporting packs, monitor covenant compliance, maintain debt schedules and respond to information requests.\n\nSupervise and further develop a small, experienced accounting, compliance and investor relations teams. Set clear objectives, ownership and accountability across finance processes.\n\nAutomate with AI. This role is designed around AI-enabled ways of working - much of Apollo’s reporting, reconciliation and analysis is already automated, and you are expected to run, extend and improve that tooling so a lean team can cover a broad scope.\n\nYou might be a fit if you:\nHave 7+ years of finance and accounting experience with increasing responsibility over time, including running a month-end close and reporting process\n\nHold a professional accounting qualification (K-CPA, ACCA, or equivalent)\n\nHave strong experience with consolidation, IFRS statutory accounts and external audits\n\nHave solid direct and indirect tax knowledge (CIT, VAT, WHT) with hands-on KRA/iTax and eTIMS experience; group transfer pricing exposure is a strong plus\n\nAre comfortable across budgets and forecasts - as well as core accounting\n\nUse AI tools in your daily work and are genuinely excited to automate your own job while maintaining a deep understanding of all materials you and your team produce\n\nAre hands-on, organized and strong on follow-through, with the judgement to know what matters\n\nCommunicate clearly with senior stakeholders, auditors and lenders\n\nNice to have:\nExperience across multiple jurisdictions or multi-entity groups\n\nExposure to external investor/lender reporting\n\nHands-on experience with Xero, Fathom or other cloud finance systems\n\nExperience in fintech, lending, financial services or agriculture\n\nWe:\nWork in cross-functional teams where finance is expected to be practical, collaborative and close to the business. We operate across multiple countries and value ownership, sound judgment, and people who help solve problems while maintaining the right controls.\n\nCare about outcomes, not ego. We hold ourselves and each other to a high bar, and we all roll up our sleeves to make the work excellent.\n\nMove fast, take smart risks, and build with urgency, because our customers' livelihoods depend on what we deliver.\n\nListen deeply, debate openly, and collaborate across boundaries, because the best ideas often come from unexpected places.\n\nOffer competitive compensation, meaningful ownership, and the chance to grow on a team that takes your work and your development seriously.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4317,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Kenya","iso":"KE","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Farming & Agriculture"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-20T09:20:25Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":28,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.629,"p_room":0.45,"age_days":55,"expected_fill_days":36,"reasons":["conf:4","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-11-05T05:54:30Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/apollo-agriculture-finance-manager-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/apollo-agriculture-finance-manager-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-05T13:29:12Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":17534,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-06T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":57598},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=57598"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fapollo-agriculture-finance-manager-2"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fapollo-agriculture-finance-manager-2"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fapollo-agriculture-finance-manager-2"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/apollo-agriculture-finance-manager-2\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fapollo-agriculture-finance-manager-2"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":2909732}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"apolloagriculture.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":2909732},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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