Financial Controller

Job Description : FC NIGERIA • Accounting policies’ compliance – ensuring accounting policies are in place & effectively adhered to for product division in line with IFRS requirements. • Control & reconcile revenues, receivables, inventories, advances, and miscellaneous income, to make sure they are no abnormalities & reconciled with business teams. • Working with Corporate teams to ensure accuracy & timely preparation of monthly relevant balance sheet reconciliations & schedules to meet corporate accounting requirements. • Monthly review of PL and Balance sheet schedules to ensure cleanliness of product financial accounts. • Understanding of Nigerian Import & Export trades, Custom Duty, VAT, WHT and other statutes. Implements/Supervises Internal Controls: • Own product data. Collaborate with the business teams & business heads and take responsibility for the collection and governance of financial and management reporting information for the product division. • Assure relevance and completeness of business policies and procedures for the functional areas of the business. • Initiate periodic updates of financial policies and procedures. • Request audits that provide assurance of compliance with financial policies and procedures for product division. • Responsible for compiling: o Weekly product reviews and reports o Month close, MIS & reporting to corporate for product MIS o Reconciliations of product schedules • M2M and BRM compilation for product division Implement automated system controls in SAP for smooth workflow across multi locations. • Managing imports, Form M’s. LC’s and other regulatory requirements/covenants with banks & other external stake holders. Education Qualification: CA (Chartered Accountant) is must. • 12 years of work experience and out of which 4 to 5 years in managing the large trading / FMCG / Manufacturing business. • Exposed to best practices and commodity accounting procedures/ trade practices, manufacturing experience, help business head to achieve sales & profit targets / outcomes while maintaining requisite internal controls, credit risk controls, position management, M2M Accounting, etc. • Expert knowledgeable of IFRS along with its right application in finalizing Monthly, Quarterly & Annual Financial Statements. • High degree of SAP knowledge and office tools understanding as well as their business implications

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