Financial Controller

Job Description:

Position: Financial Controller

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Salary: $60k - $75k yearly plus benefits

Experience: Minimum 7 years

The Role:

The Financial Controller for our business based in Lagos and will oversee the financials of multiple

legal entities. The role will manage robust accounting processes and controls that lead to the delivery of timely and accurate financial reports for all businesses in Nigeria.

The role will include coaching and mentoring the accounting team.

Key Responsibilities include :

• Supervise all accounting (all legal entities)
• Supervise monthly cutoff/intercompany/valuation/close process
• Adequacy of provisions and accruals
• Produce management accounting analysis for all businesses
• Oversee Cognos input
• Financial Accounting
• Manage annual audit and all statutory reporting; manage ICS
• Contracts and forward books
• Preparation/review of all commodity forward books
• Produce timely and accurate financial reports
• Analysis of reserves vs actual costs
• Run tax planning and compliance with the Tax team.
• Corporation tax and any VAT/direct taxes applicable
• Manage govt compliance and work relating to Banking, Export grants and liaising with lawyers

  and legal issues.

• Treasury oversee payment/receipts process
• Work with Treasury to manage liquidity and develop local bank

          relationships

• FX position management
• Backup to product controllers for origin funding requests
• Credit control
• Oversee counterparty risk process, including weekly credit control process for all

         Companies

Manage supplier advances with commodity teams

• Overhead control and analysis (PC and shared service)
• Coordinate and consolidation of all annual budgets and forecasts
• Maintain an efficient system of accounting records
• Improve the Company’s set of controls and budgets designed to mitigate risk
• Enhance the accuracy of the company's reported financial results
• Ensure that reported results comply with generally accepted accounting principles
• Lead, coach and mentor a team
• Manage activities associated with process improvements, timely reporting and the development

of appropriate systems to ensure that financial transactions, policies and procedures are in line

with the Company’s objectives

Qualifications/Requirements

• An advanced degree in accounting & costing, business or finance
• A Minimum of 7 years relevant Professional post qualification experience, ideally in the

        Commodity, agricultural sector, trading or food & beverage industry

• A thorough understanding of business, financial and Accounting principles and practices
• Excellent mathematical and analytical skills with advanced knowledge of Excel & PowerPoint
• Knowledge of SAGE ERP will be an added advantage.
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to build trust and relationships with employees and business

         managers

• Strong communication skills (written & oral)
• Ability to work in an entrepreneurial, multicultural, multidisciplinary team and deliver high quality work within deadlines to meet objectives
• Prior experience in Nigeria or West Africa would be a major plus