Position: Finance Controller – Manufacturing
Qualification: Graduate of Accounting or Finance is preferred, Must be a Chartered Accountant
Location: Lagos
Experience:
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in commercial, finance, accounts and costing – exposure to manufacturing of especially flexible Packaging will be added advantage.
- Ideally 5 years’ experience in Africa
- Good experience of working with multiple business heads and managing large team multi-cultural staff. The candidate must be commercially savvy, with business understanding and should act as a strong support to the Business Heads and CFO.
Key Responsibilities:
- Overall revenue in line with agreed costing
- Discounts given are in line with agreement with policies
- Costing file are prepared in line with company policies are duly adhered to
- Directionally profitability is in line with budgets and work with BH on the same
- Timely and accurate reporting as agreed
- Overall Internal and Management audit reports
- Overall sanity in credit control and AR
- Establishing a mechanism/checklist to ensure operations are under control
- Overall governance in capex management
- Overall statutory compliance work
- Creating a productive, happy team
- Developing skill sets of team members and initiating external intervention if required
- Having a clear understanding of interest cost expected vis a vis budgets
- Ensuring accuracy of interest cost debited
- Ensuring financials reflect the correct cost debited
- Developing & Implementing action plan to reduce interest cost
- Having a clear understanding on other charges debited by bank
- Ensuring accuracy of debits
- Ensuring financials reflect the correct cost debited
- Completeness and accuracy of bank reconciliations & ensuring no open items beyond 30 days
- Completeness and accuracy of cash reconciliations & ensuring no open items beyond 30 days
- Ensuring all channels of inflow are categorically understood and optimized
- Timeliness/completeness and accuracy of inflow related areas
- Timely and correct accounting of Inflow’s
- Ensuring accuracy of all outflow and timely accounting of all outflows
- Ensuring collection plans are driven to meet them
- Ensuring completeness & accuracy
- Ensuring financials reflect correct status
- Ensuring there are no overdue unless agreed
Key managerial competencies required for the role:
- Integrity
- Planning & organizing
- Meeting commitments
- Resource management
- Result orientation
- Personal motivation & initiative
- Problem solving/analytical ability
- Information gathering
Job Category: Finance
Job Location: Lagos Nigeria