Adexen Recruitment Agency – Our client is the farming subsidiary of an international group operating in Nigeria, is currently recruiting to fill the vacant position below:
Job Title: Financial Controller – Expatriate
Job Reference: 1160
Location: Ibadan, Nigeria
Industry: Industry & Manufacturing
Function: Financial
Job Description
- Overall accountability of controlling, financial accounting, treasury, accounts payable/receivable, working capital management, MIS, budgeting& reporting, ERP implementation, tax matters, administrative activities, etc.
- Working independently
- Includes lead supervisory and managerial roles.
- Lead the Finance & Accounts teams in the production of monthly reporting
- Ensure robust controls on all reporting processes are met and in line with GAAP
- Implement Financial Reporting systems, adhering to GAAP
- VAT & Tax Reporting deadlines are met
- Manage and oversee both the internal and external Audit function
- Produce required Management Accounts for stakeholders to support weekly/monthly meeting
Expectations
- B. Com
- Chartered Accountant
- Capable of leading team including Managers and staff employees.
- Minimum 15years’ experience of handling Finance & Accounts functions.
- Experience in farming sector obligatory
- 5 years as Financial Controller or Finance Manager
- International experience required, preferably in emerging markets, and/or Africa.
- Good experience of working in an ERP environment like SAP, Mfg-Pro, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics systems.
- Computer literacy with good IT and ERP skills
- Excellent oral and written proficiency in English
Offer
Attractive expatriate package.
How to Apply
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Job Title: Chief Financial Officer – Expatriate
Job Reference: 1165
Located: Lagos
Industry: Industry & Manufacturing
Function: Financial
Job Descriptions
- The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) will prepare, develop and analyze key financial information to ensure that an organization’s management makes well-informed decisions to ensure future stability, growth and profitability.
- He will establish financial policies and management information systems and maintain accurate and complete financial records.
- He will also provide a high quality support service by liaising with management colleagues on all aspects of finance. The role combines accounting skills with business management skills.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Preparing periodic financial statements, including profit and loss accounts, budgets, cash flows, variance analysis and commentaries;
- Providing a support service by working with all departments and the management team to help make financial decisions;
- Review the financial data and information, update it, to identify inconsistencies and take remedial actions and to provide assistance to direct the operation of financial activities;
- Ensure timely reconciliation of all accounts, to verify its accuracy by tracking and monitoring the financial records, etc.;
- Monitor the debtors and ensure that collections are consistent within the given time limit;
- Prepare accurate monthly and yearly reports, to provide assistance in directing the coordination and preparation of annual budgets, and to ensure that the approved budget has been adhered to, to communicate the variations in budget to the management, and communicate inconsistencies in the budget;
- Ensuring spending is kept in line with the budget;
- Informing key strategic decisions and formulating business strategies;
- Advising on the financial implications and consequences of business decisions;
- Analysing financial performance and so contributing to medium and long term business planning / forecasts;
- Negotiating on major projects, loans and grants;
- Offering professional judgement on financial matters and advising on ways of improving business performance;
- Interpreting and communicating financial data to non-financial managers;
- Liaising with other function managers to put the finances and accounts in context;
- Monitoring and evaluating financial information systems and suggesting improvements where needed;
- Implementing corporate governance procedures, risk management and internal controls;
- Delegate the tasks to the junior staff persons, to train and mentor them by identifying the skills and training gaps, to be involved in communicating the staffing needs, hiring, and terminating the staff members whenever there is a requirement;
- Collate all the relevant financial information like expenses, liabilities, revenues, assets, etc. and documentation that would ensure readiness and fast execution of the relevant financial activities;
- Recommend potential business acquisition proposals and assists the organisation to make intelligent business and financial related decisions;
- Manage the day to day accounting activities by ensuring adherence to the organisational rules and regulations and statutory compliance;
- Coordinate with the technological department to ensure that a proper accounting system is selected by him that will help in delivering sound financial reports;
- Responsible for maintaining excellent relationship with the internal employees as well as with the insurance organisations, banks, audit and financial firms etc.;
- Develop and implement processes related to document control and management;
- Cash and treasury management;
- Manage all company taxes ensuring timely and accurate filing with tax authorities;
- Coordination of audits with external and internal auditors; follow-up and clearing of management letters
- All IT related activities ensuring at any time full operations.
Expectations
- Candidates should be a Certified Management Accountant;
- 10+ years of progressively financial responsibility;
- At least 3 – 5 years of experience as CFO / Finance Director in a multinational FMCG or specialty chemicals company;
- If possible, work experience in Africa
- Excellent written and oral English
- Complete mastery on accounting theories and principles;
- Candidate must be comfortable with handling complex computations and huge numerical data;
- Ability to manage and prioritise work according to requirements;
- Effective leadership and communication skills;
- Excellent planning, analytical and time management skills;
- Computer proficiency skills in NAVISION or any other similar ERP;
How to Apply
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Job Title: Chief Financial Officer – Expatriate
Job Reference: 1116
Location: Nigeria
Industry: Industry & Manufacturing
Function: Financial
Job Descriptions
- The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is responsible for all financial and fiscal management aspects of the Company’s operations.
- Provide strategic financial leadership, business planning, forecasting, accounting and budgeting processes, tax and risk management and optimize returns to the Shareholders.
- Responsible for directing IT function to ensure that the Company’s systems and information technology attain the best technology standards at every level of the business with increased data security.
- The CFO reports directly to the Managing Director and assists on strategic and tactical matters as they relate to financial management and their impact to the business operations.
Principal Responsibilities
- Collaborates with the Managing Director to define and articulate the organization’s vision and to develop strategies for achieving that vision.
- Provide strategic direction and management of the Finance & IT functions and ensures alignment to the Company’s goals leading to shareholder value creation.
- Participate in preparation of the Annual Plan and Strategic Business Plans that improve the efficiency and long term profitability of the business and ensure optimal realization of brand/market potential.
- Ensure the design of a robust business-decision-making framework, driving through process improvements and change initiatives that enable the budgeting, forecasting and reporting to be carried out in a consistent and effective manner.
- Proactively participate in benchmarking studies of FMCG peers including but not limited to pricing, COGS, overheads, manufacturing costs along with cash flows and balance sheet foot prints
- Act in a fiduciary capacity, protecting the value of the brand through safeguarding assets of the company, both tangible and intangible.
- Ensure compliance with the company’s policies, procedures and local statutory regulations. Manage Statutory and Internal Auditors.
- Organizational structure and effectiveness through building capabilities both People and Technology to ensure continuous innovation and growth; also motivating and retaining high performing employees.
Implements/Supervises Internal Controls:
- Protects and preserve the company’s assets to comply with financial reporting and control requirements.
- Standardize. Establish company-wide standards for systems, data and processes
- Own the data. Collaborate with the Finance Director & IT Manager and take responsibility for the collection and governance of financial and management reporting information.
- Assure relevance and completeness of financial 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.
Financial Planning & Projections:
- Review and discuss with management the long term strategic business plan and financial projections along with related assumptions
- Co-lead with the MD the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) exercise providing insightful information on key value / growing drivers
- Issue the AOP calendar so that each department will prepare its annual comprehensive budget in a timely manner and present it to the relevant authority for final approval
- Proactively advise MD and senior management in regards to Risks & Opportunities (R&Os) to the attainment of the AOP (i.e. Latest Estimates, Outlooks) working closely with executive tam to mitigate risks while realising opportunities
- Conduct/review financial feasibility studies of new projects to assure that those projects are in line with company’s investment/business strategy with appropriate ROI’s
Treasury:
- Provide/review financial projections on cash budgets (i.e. monthly, annually)
- Assure in collaboration with group treasury that the negotiated bank facilities are competitive in terms of notional, tenor, pricing, roll over, and grace period;
- Assure the provision of adequate responses to bank queries for renewal of bank facilities;
- Assure that the periodic reporting requirements to banks are met in a timely manner;
- Assure that all loan covenants are complied with
- Review the daily bank status reports and cash flow forecasts and initiate the necessary directives to optimize the use of cash across company’s operations.
- Hold periodic communication meetings with bank relationship managers and other senior officers to discuss issues of mutual interests.
- Build constructive relationships with key banks stakeholders.
Budgeting Control:
- Issue the annual comprehensive budget control guidelines to all company’s departments so that budget control activities start as early as Period 1
- Review periodic budget control reports of each department to assure that performance is according to AOP;
- Advise and follow-up on effective implementation of corrective actions based on budget control performance reports;
Internal Performance & Reporting:
- Ensures the Business Performance Management (BPM) process take place and partner with the MD to activate corrective measures towards meeting AOP and business strategic objectives
- Assure monthly financial statements are generated with quality within the specified deadlines along with been properly analysed and in line with profitability and liquidity targets, and recommend corrective actions if needed to bring performance on course;
- Assure timely and complete year-end closing in preparation for annual audit.
External Audits:
- Coordinate with the external auditors in planning an effective and efficient audit programs;
- Monitor execution of annual audits in all department to assure their timeliness and effectiveness;
- Review draft external audit reports and provide the necessary commentaries for finalizing timely;
- Assure that the management letter is received from the external auditors.
- Assure that the recommendations in each point of management letter are adequately attended to by the respective Department Managers.
Technical Support & Business Partnering:
- Provide needed technical and financial support to all department managers so that they can perform their respective jobs effectively and efficiently;
- Assure the continued technical and business partnering competence of both the Finance and IT functions through the continuous training, development and coaching of employees
Success Criteria:
- Supporting the Managing Director to create shareholder value
- Proactively measuring and monitoring business performance
- Managing governance/controls/risks / compliance
- Developing a high potential Finance & IT Teams including realistic Succession planning
Job Scope / Impact:
- Meeting Critical Business Challenges
- Integrating Financial and Operational Data
- Reducing Errors and Data Duplication
- Cutting Costs and Creating Efficiencies
- Establishing a Consistent and Auditable Environment
- Gaining Flexibility and Agility.
- Extending and Elevating Financial Management
- Treasury
Expectations
- Chartered Accountant / other equivalent degree from a reputable institution.
- Good communicator at every level of organisation from operations room to the board room – incl. but no limited to good oral and written English with strong multicultural awareness
- Excellent leadership skills capable of leading people from the front and from the back at every level of the organisation
- Demonstrated experience as a business partner and “co-pilot” of the MD in driving controls, compliance and performance while improving the business
- Experienced CFO / Finance Director with minimum of 5 years leading the finance function and with 15+ years of overall progressive finance experience (incl. Supply finance, commercial finance, financial controls, decision support, reporting, others) with most of his/her working experience in a subsidiary of a global FMCG with turnover of USD 350 – USD 500 million
- Exposed to best practices and global standards and their application in emerging markets, who knows how to balance global standards and local approaches in order to attain targets / outcomes while maintaining intact the controls, compliance and performance agendas
- Knowledgeable of IFRS along with its right application
- Meaningful exposure to different ERPs (SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, others) as well as their business implications
- Ample experience leading and working across functions as a business partner while keeping the finance rigour and accountability
- Experience leading Information, Systems & Technology and Risk & Assurance (Internal Audit) departments, ensuring the proactive and progressive attainment of business objectives.
Offer
- Attractive expatriate package, family status
- Benefits: car, driver, house, cook, medical expenses, furnished accomodation.
How to Apply
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Job Title: General Manager
Job Reference: 1299
Location: Lagos
Industry: Construction & Real Estate
Function: Commercial & Communication
Job Description
General Management, Operations & Business Development:
- Lead the execution of strategies developed by the top management team and Board of Directors.
- Take responsibility for delivering results on a day-to-day basis all year round
- Provide day-to-day leadership and management to a service organisation that mirrors the adopted mission and core values of the company.
- Responsible for driving the company to achieve and surpass sales, profitability, cash flow and business goals and objectives.
- Responsible for the measurement and effectiveness of all processes internal and external.
- Provides timely, accurate and complete reports on the operating condition of the company.
- Spearhead the development, communication and implementation of effective growth strategies and processes.
- Motivate and lead a high-performance team; attract, recruit and retain required members of the team not currently in place; provide mentoring as a cornerstone to career development program.
- To ensure technical, operational and logistics support of all ongoing projects
- To interact and engage with external parties in order to enhance the reputation of the company and facilitate the growth of the business Researching new technologies and alternative methods of efficiency.
- Identifying and initiating contacts for business opportunities through research and market analysis
- Working closely with management in locating and following up on new business initiatives in the industry.
- Involvement in the clarification and closing of respective commercial and legal matters.
- Screening potential business deals through analysis of market strategies, deal requirements, potentials and financial risks. Competition evaluation and monitoring
- Develop negotiating strategies and positions by evaluation of risks and potentials and estimating potential partners’ needs and goals
- Closing new business deals, developing and negotiating contracts, integrating contract requirements with business operations
- Networking and enhancing company’s reputation
- Developing and maintaining personal and professional networks and participating in professional organisation
Project/Financial Management:
- Setting and reviewing budgets as well as managing cost. Overseeing inventory, distribution of all resources. Review and advise on annual operating and capital budgets
- Experience in monitoring project profitability
- Follow up with Clients on Payment
- Plan and monitor expenditures to ensure cost-effective support of projects and policies.
Expectations
- Bachelor’s degree from any field preferably Economics. Accounting background would be an added advantage
- MBA/Master’s degree in business, financial management or related field
- 7-10 years’ experience with at least 3 years in senior management role
- Experience of business unit management in a similar business
- Extensive networking experience with proven track record in generating new opportunities pipeline resulting in successful closure
- Have “hands-on” approach in the construction sector and be prepared to generate actionable partnership ideas
- Good knowledge of customer economics, with ability to identify and develop new business solutions in construction
- Experience in customer exposure at executive level in construction or other industries
- Experience of business unit management in a similar business
- Results-oriented entrepreneurial spirit and “can do” attitude
- Strong business leader, coach, and team player Excellent people skill
- Skilled in organisational development, personnel management, budget and resource development
How to Apply
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