Finance Controller

Roles & Responsibilities:

The FC as a member of the management team is accountable for the financial and financial risk management operations. The FC is also involved in the development of a financial and operational strategy, metrics tied to that strategy, the ongoing development, monitoring of control systems designed to preserve company’s assets and report accurate financial results.

• Manage all accounting operations including Billing, A/R, A/P, GL and Counsel, Cost Accounting, Inventory Accounting and Revenue Recognition.
• Hands on experience in Accounts Finalization, DR/CR reconciliations, BRS preparations, Budgeting and Cash Flow Statements.
• Review all financial plans and budgets regularly to look for cost reduction opportunities.
• Coordinate and direct the preparation of the budget and financial forecasts and report variances.
• Prepare and publish timely monthly financial statements.
• Coordinate the preparation of regulatory reporting.
• Research technical accounting issues for compliance.
• Ensure quality control over financial transactions and financial reporting.
• Maintenance and documentation of accounting procedures & policies but not limited to only finance department.
• Maintaining robust relationships with external auditors and banks & financial institutions.
• Negotiating with Banks, handling LCs, BGs and OD facilities.
• Team Management including mentoring and staff development.
• Working closely with Executive Leadership team to deliver reports, analysis findings, potential risk areas and forecast opportunities.
• Strengthen finance department’s human resource strategies by determining accountabilities.
• Implementing selection, orientation, training, coaching, counselling, disciplinary, and communication programs; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions.
• Review existing finance organizational strategies by contributing financial and accounting information, analysis, and make recommendations to strategic thinking and direction, establishing functional objectives in line with organizational objectives.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with senior executives so as to identify their needs and seek full range of business solutions.
• Experience in filing Tax returns viz, VAT, Withholding Tax, SDL, PAYE, WCF, NSSF, Provisional Tax, CSL.
• Ensure that all financial transactions are properly recorded and filed.
• Handling statutory Audit.
• Strong experience in maintaining internal controls and implement improved controls and procedures.
• Proven ability to analyse costs, control cost, reduce cost and prepare costing reports.
• Proven and strong ability to implement new systems, SOPs and KPIs. (VERY IMPORTANT). (The candidate must be system orientated).
• Strong knowledge (added advantage) in SAP Hana or other SAP versions, including implementation experience.
• Well versed with SAP’s business process (added advantage) mapping & configuration in SAP.
• Successfully meeting new technical challenges and finding solutions meets to the client requirements.
• The candidate should be articulate and have good communication skills.
• Oversee all accounts and investments.
• Stock taking and reconciliation.
• Financial and strategic analysis and simulations for business scenarios etc.
• Examine all financial reports and data closely to check for discrepancies.
• Establish and implement financial reporting systems to comply with government regulations and legislation.
• Ensure timely regulatory reporting relating to finance.
• Prepare requisite presentations, dash reports for Board meetings.
• Collaborate with auditing services to ensure proper compliance with all regulations.
• Report to Group CFO & CEO with timely and accurate financial information.
• Good Understanding skills of both business processes and technical developments.
• Understand and mitigate key elements of the organization's risk profile.
• Diplomatic, strong interpersonal skills, strong influencing abilities, ability to drive teams towards a result-oriented common goal being a strategic thinker and planner.
• Overall, the candidate should have a good focus on systems, implementation of procedure and understanding of always wanting to continuously improvement other departments and his/her department.
• Overall business acumen and leadership skills to be part of growth in business.

Skills and Attributes:

• Able to work under pressure to tight deadlines
• Excellent organisation and administration skills
• Ability to motivate and lead teams
• Outstanding knowledge of accounting principles and procedures
• Good understanding of accounting software SAP (added advantage)
• Sense of ownership and pride in performance
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills.
• Attention to detail & passion to drive process improvements.

Qualifications Required:

• CA
• Above 5-10 years of experience (or close), with 5 years experience in managing a Finance team independently.