Financial Controller Full Time NEW

About the Job

Finance Leadership

• Advice the Finance Director on short, medium and long-term investment opportunities that will benefit the business.
• Offer commercial orientation and perspectives to the Finance Director to drive value creation throughout the business.
• Focus on key strategic priorities, and create capabilities within the finance team to drive and support initiatives that will enhance the achievement of those priorities.
• Support the strategic plan development and support the Finance Director and Country Finance Planning and Operations Manager to evaluate alternative ideas and options in that endeavor.
• Responsible the Balance Sheet and Working Capital Planning.

General Accounting & Finance

• Maintain sound accounting system which ensures best practices in book keeping and accounting for all transactions.
• Maintain a competent finance team that provides up-to-date and accurate information to the business at all times.
• Work closely with tax authorities to ensure full compliance and minimize exposures to the business.
• Implement credit policy for the business, which promotes good management of accounts receivables portfolio and reduce bad debts.
• Ensure efficient working capital management practices are entrenched.
• Review and sign off month end file and provide to Finance Director.

Governance & Control

• Promote good corporate governance practices within the business which ensure that the business remains a viable and responsible entity.
• Practice performance management to ensure the finance team is well engaged and that proper succession planning is entrenching to promote going concern.
• Provide safe and sound work environment for the finance team and support initiatives that minimizes the business risk.
• Promote key external stakeholder engagements which are necessary to enhance healthy business relationships and support business continuity..

Planning & Reporting

• Analyze data; financial and non-financial, so as to inform the Finance Director on macro-economic trends which underpins forecasts and budgets.
• Co-ordinate the Balance sheet budgeting process and ensure budgetary controls are maintained.
• Maintain healthy relationship with the Group Office and Group Finance offices to ensure the operation is abreast with current developments and reporting requirements.
• Ensure that all financial statements and reports are properly and timeously prepared, communicated and distributed as required.

Decision Support

•  Runs finance literacy programs for other departments and depot to ensure that they are in line with finance requirements.

Build and embed superior Finance capabilities:

• Share best practices for use to the Finance Director in the broader CCBA business.
• Identify local best practices and capabilities and share to Finance Director
• Participate in communities of practice led by group office as instructed by the Finance Director.

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