Olam Agri is a market-leading, differentiated food, feed, and fiber agri-business with a global origination footprint, processing capabilities, and deep understanding of market needs built over 33 years. With a strong presence in high-growth emerging markets and products across grains & oilseeds, animal feed & protein, rice, edible oils, specialty grains & seeds, cotton, wood products, rubber and commodity financial services.
Olam Agri is at the heart of global food and agri-trade flows with more than 40 million MT in volume traded annually. Focused on transforming food, feed and fiber for a more sustainable future, it aims at creating value for customers, enabling farming communities to prosper sustainably, and strive for a food-secure future.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: General Manager – Finance
Location: Ilorin, Kwara
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Description
- Finance is a contemporary and forward-looking function that is driving value by being a world-class partner to our business.
- As a Finance Controller, you will partner with the business unit in the country (Business Head, Sales & Functional leads) to ensure P&L transparency & accuracy and to drive the business towards targets & operational KPIs achievement.
- As the successful candidate, you will be able to demonstrate the ability to link business decisions to financial impacts.
Key Deliverables:
- Controllership:Â You are a controller that ensures accurate, efficient and timely delivery of relevant reports while ensuring the hygiene of accounting, book-keeping, various systems, and processes.
- Performance Officer:Â You help us to be on track with robust and timely performance tracking. You will ensure budgetary process improvements and achieve better predictability on outcomes
- Value Manager:Â You also ensure & support value maximization initiatives (interest, Trade Finance, currency management, etc.)
- Co-Strategist:Â You are our strategist; you help in value-added decision support through superior data analytics and help us drive special projects to growth. Ensure and support value maximization initiatives (Interest, Trade Finance etc.)
Impact Areas:
- Business Financial Insights:Â Your in-depth knowledge on financial/management accounting principles will help us to accurately reflect the business performance.
- Controls, Compliance & Assurance:Â Our ability to evaluate risks and determining their impact on the management audit, developing and/or modifying audit procedures as required. You ensure compliances to legal and secretarial requirements as well as functioning within the norms of statutory audit regulations respective to country/ business.
- Reporting & process efficiencies:Â The finance controller demonstrates conceptual ability to ideate and implement robust systems & processes suited to business/ country. You also display accuracy and efficiency in MIS reporting, budgeting.
- Capability Building: Build capability in finance function, growing finance leadership pipeline and ensuring effective knowledge & expertise transfer for effective execution of finance strategies: Personal Credibility & Thought Leadership Building Functional Capability
Requirements
- A qualified chartered accountant with 6-10 years of experience in finance in Mfg. setup, preferably from FMCG.
- Experience in handling Plant Finance/ Business Finance
- Should have led the team in delivering month-end activities and Finance KPI.
- Should have worked on implementing Industry best practices about Compliance and Governance.
- Hands-on experience with Balance sheet analysis, P&L analysis, Cost savings initiatives, and Capex project evaluations.
- Working SAP knowledge and excellent Microsoft Office skills is mandatory.
- Experienced in handling audit assignments including statutory audit, Internal Audit and Tax audits and Budget exercises.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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