Controller, Acumen Ventures Debt Partners Limited

The role

The Controller will have responsibility for financial operations for several legal entities in the Hardest-to-Reach Amplify debt fund structure. This includes accounting, budgeting, financial reporting, and taxation across entities in Guernsey, the UK, and Kenya.

What you will do

• Accounting and book-keeping
• Review and approval of Purchase Orders
• Raising invoices for advisory fees and reallocation of costs
• Banking and cash management
• Review and approval of payments and initiation of payments
• Payroll and review of monthly payroll for UK and Kenya employees
• Financial reporting to various stakeholders
• Preparation and review of quarterly and year end reporting
• Budgeting, forecasting and cash-flow planning
• Financial analysis and budget to actual analysis

Required qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years of experience
• Qualified Accountant (Eg ICAS, ICAEW etc)
• Experience with Fund Accounting
• Experience in partnering with an executive team
• Experience in leading and motivating a team
• High integrity, strong ethical principles and ability to command respect at all levels
• Preparedness to assert one’s views, including where ethical or legal requirements are being challenged
• Well-developed diplomatic, interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Based in UK
• Permanently authorized to work in the United Kingdom

About the company

Acumen invests patient capital in businesses whose products and services help people living in poverty to transform their lives. Hardest to Reach is an initiative by Acumen focused on expanding clean energy access in some of Africa’s most remote and underserved regions.