Finance Operations Team Leader at Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited

Role Purpose    

• To lead and manage the operational and statutory financial functions of the short-term insurance business, ensuring financial integrity, regulatory compliance, and strategic financial support to business units, and group.

Requirements    
Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree / Diploma in Accounting, Finance, or related field
• Minimum 3–5 years’ experience in financial, preferably in insurance or financial services.
• CIMA, ACCA

Experience

• Strong understanding of short-term insurance operations and regulatory environment.
• Management of a team.
• Experience with ERP systems (e.g., Ski, Tial, Sage, CIMS).
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills.

Duties & Responsibilities    
Operational Finance:

• Management of the accounting function for Guardrisk finance operations.
• Management of subsidiary companies’ legal entity financial accounts
• Accurately, efficiently and timely capturing and reporting of transactions.
• Review and /or prepare payments documents and obtain the necessary source documentation and authorisation to effect payments timely and with the determined service level agreement levels.
• Review and approve the general ledger journal allocations based on levels of authority and policy.
• Review all documentation to ensure that the correct level of authority has authorised the document and raise any exceptions with the relevant stakeholder.
• Compile and review monthly and year end reconciliations of their portfolio of clients.
• Identify and report respective accounting or reporting issues.
• Investigate and resolve any outstanding queries in relation to accounting issues.
• Finance support and management/servicing by working closely with all departments.
• Meeting company and client accounting, payment and reporting deadlines.
• Contribute to the enhancement of systems and processes issues in order to enhance financial management.
• Contribute to continuous innovation through the development, sharing and implementation of new ideas. 
• Prepare and provide necessary documentation to complete timely audit both for client and Guardrisk.
• Oversee, manage and control the daily insurance financial operations including accounts payable/receivable, cash flow management, reconciliations and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Manage the preparation and analysis of monthly management accounts and operational performance reports, relating to operational finance.
• Support the Creditors and Debtors Control Function and effectively ensure timeous accounting and reporting. 
• Monitor and optimize expense control, cost allocations, and profitability metrics.
• Support underwriting and claims departments with financial insights and reporting.
• Implement and maintain internal controls and financial procedures.
• Drive automation and efficiency in Debtors and Creditors processes using ERP systems, and financial modelling, dashboards and analytics. 

Statutory Accounting:

• Coordinate and manage external audits and liaise with auditors.
• Prepare annual financial statements and quarterly financial packs (if required)
• Maintain accurate financial records and ensure timely reporting to regulators (if required).

Leadership:

• Manage a team of accountants and provide assistance, support and transfer of skills and training
• Provide financial insights to support strategic decision-making.
• Lead and develop the team, fostering a high-performance culture.
• Collaborate with senior management to align financial goals with business strategy.
• Effectively lead and contribute to the Guardrisk wide team culture.
• Participate and contribute to a culture which build rewarding relationships, facilitates feedback and provides exceptional client service within the organization.
• Develop and maintain productive and collaborative working relationships with peers and stakeholders.
• Contribute to continuous innovation through the development, sharing and implementation of new ideas and initiatives.
• Create a positive work climate and culture to energise employees, give meaning to work, minimise work disruption and maximise employee productivity.
• Demonstrate exemplary leadership behaviour, through personal involvement, commitment and dedication in support of organisational values.
• Drive a culture that guides and directs best practice, fostering an environment of continuous learning, improvement and cohesiveness.
• Enable a learning and growth culture whereby information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared between team members.
• Effectively managing performance within the team to ensure business objectives are achieved.
• Encourage innovation, change agility and collaboration within the team.
• Share and transfer product, process and systems knowledge to colleagues.

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Effective management and results driven.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• High attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Leadership and team management capabilities

Deadline:14th December,2025