Finance Manager

What you will be expected to do:

• Manage end-to-end compliance with Ethiopian federal tax requirements administered by the Ministry of Revenue, including corporate profit tax, VAT, excise tax where applicable, withholding tax, customs/import duty and VAT exposure, and employment income tax compliance.
• Manage compliance with regional state and city administration tax requirements, including the Addis Ababa City Administration Revenue Bureau and other relevant State Revenue Bureaus and Authorities.
• Address matters where federal and regional tax jurisdictions overlap, ensuring appropriate interpretation and application of tax requirements.
• Prepare, review, and submit statutory tax returns within required timelines.
• Maintain tax payment calendars and reconcile tax-related general ledger accounts.
• Serve as the main contact for tax assessments, queries, audits, and dispute matters with the Ministry of Revenue and Regional Revenue Bureaus.
• Coordinate information provided to tax authorities and participate in settlement discussions where required.
• Reconcile tax ledgers with tax authority records and investigate differences or variances.
• Monitor changes to Ethiopian federal and regional tax proclamations, directives, and rulings, translating relevant updates into practical guidance, process changes, and risk considerations for the business through the Public Policy and Government Relations team.
• Provide input into transfer pricing documentation and intercompany transaction compliance for cross-border dealings with Sun King subsidiaries.
• Monitor regulatory filings linked to finance operations, including relevant National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) foreign exchange requirements.

• Serve as the main contact for external statutory auditors and coordinate the annual audit cycle from planning through completion.
• Coordinate audit schedules, fieldwork, information requests, and resolution of audit queries.
• Maintain year-round audit readiness for internal, interim, and final audits, including accurate reconciliations, documentation, and evidence files in line with group month-end reporting (MEC) and Ethiopian statutory requirements.
• Participate in internal audit reviews and control testing, tracking action points through to completion.
• Establish, maintain, and monitor internal controls covering financial reporting, cash handling, reconciliations, procurement, and revenue processes.
• Coordinate with licensed local audit firms and maintain compliance with Accounting and Auditing Board of Ethiopia (AABE) requirements.

• Manage the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process for the Ethiopia entity, ensuring accurate and timely reporting against group deadlines.
• Prepare monthly financial statements in line with IFRS and Ethiopian statutory reporting requirements.
• Reconcile statutory books to group reporting and investigate differences where they arise.
• Review balance sheet reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, and the fixed asset register.
• Maintain an accurate and audit-ready general ledger.
• Maintain the local Chart of Accounts in line with group standards and ensure accurate entity and cost-center reporting.

• Work closely with the MGC Team (Outsourced Payables Processing Team) to:
• Ensure supplier balances are accurately recorded and clearly explained.
• Verify that expense postings are accurate and consistent.
• Address MIS-related queries.
• Improve processes in coordination with Procurement.
• Ensure payments are processed within established timelines.

• Ensure customer balances are accurate and clearly explained.
• Follow up with relevant Partnership Account Managers on overdue accounts.
• Reconcile EasyBuy receipts against wallet balances.
• Ensure the “Balance to Collect” on KaziPlan is reconciled monthly.

• Ensure all bank accounts are reconciled on a weekly and monthly basis.
• Verify that funds recorded in the internal CRM through Looker reconcile with SAP S/4HANA and bank account balances.
• Investigate and resolve reconciliation differences within established timelines.

• Ensure all month-end close activities are completed within established MEC timelines, including: Depreciation, Purchase GIT, Salary journals, Bonus and incentive provisions, Prepaid expense tracking, FX runs, and Fixed asset accounting
• Provide accurate and well-assisted commentary for monthly P&L and balance sheet reviews ahead of MIS publication.
• Monitor costs associated with imported shipments (COGS), ensuring appropriate allocation and timely follow-up with Operations for MIRO/MIGO bookings and closure.

• Provide clear financial insights and commentary on business performance, tax exposure, and compliance risks during country and regional business reviews.
• Represent Finance in cross-functional forums and provide guidance to Sales (EasyBuy Direct), Marketing, Operations, Legal, HR, Procurement, and EB Operations on tax, audit, and accounting matters.
• Work with teams across the business to identify financial risks, improve processes, and strengthen compliance.
• Provide practical financial guidance on business choices involving accounting, tax, controls, and regulatory requirements.

You might be a strong candidate if you have:

• A Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, in partnership with a recognized professional accounting qualification such as ACCA, CPA, CIMA, or equivalent. A Master's degree is an added advantage.
• 7–10+ years of progressive finance or accounting experience, including significant experience in a Finance Manager or senior accounting position in Ethiopia.
• Practical experience managing federal and regional tax compliance and tax authority audits in Ethiopia.
• Experience coordinating statutory or external audits from planning through sign-off. Experience with a Big 4 or reputable audit firm is strongly preferred.
• Strong experience preparing IFRS-compliant financial statements and managing month-end and year-end close in a multinational or group-reporting environment.
• Experience in a multinational, energy, off-grid/renewable energy, telecommunications, or FMCG environment is an advantage.
• Working knowledge of Ethiopian company law and foreign investment/NBE foreign exchange regulations relevant to finance operations is an advantage.

What Sun King offers:

• Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
• An open-minded, collaborative culture with enthusiastic colleagues driven by the challenge of innovation and making a profound impact on people and the planet.
• A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
• Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.

About
Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection.Sun King has built a new kind of energy utility: distributed, green, customer-centric, and affordable. We bring clean, reliable, decentralized energy directly into people’s lives — from solar kits that provide first-time energy access to multi-kilowatt systems that serve both off-grid users and grid-connected customers powering larger homes, schools, hospitals, farms, offices, and light manufacturing.Already, 25 million homes and businesses rely on Sun King for electricity supply and the appliances and services it enables: lighting, televisions, fans, refrigeration, and smartphones. Sun King combines energy generation, energy-efficient appliances, installation, and financing into one seamless offering. Think of it as a distributed utility, designed for wherever energy is needed and designed to scale with its users as incomes and energy needs grow.Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ (PAYG) purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.14 a day via mobile money or cash.Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright.Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 35,000 field agents — over 1 million payments each day. To date, Sun King has extended more than $1.4 billion in PAYG loans to customers.Sun King began by powering homes and businesses with solar systems delivered through PAYG financing. Now, we’re using the same model to make smartphones and clean cooking equipment affordable: helping households connect to the digital economy and transition from wood-based fuels to modern, sustainable alternatives.Sun King employs 3,500 full-time staff in 14 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families. Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 42% of Sun King’s workforce.