Age: Approximately 40years and above
Education& Skills:
- Chartered accountant from a reputable institution and advanced training
- Proven ability to lead diverse teams across multiple geographies
- Strong listening/ learning skills and ability to anticipate and adopt to dynamic markets
- Self-motivated and can-do attitude in tackling strategic, financial and operational challenges as part of the senior leadership and an exercised ownership mentality
- Experience in implementing and refining key ERP, especially financial and risk mgt. systems
- Excellent proficiency in written and verbal English, French is a plus
Experience:
- 15 years or more of finance experience, 10 years in leadership roles in finance and accounting
- Extensive work experience in commodity/ agriculture industry in international and reputable organizations
- International work experience, across emerging markets, including Africa (i.e. Dubai is not the first international posting)
LinkedIn Keywords:
- Area: Finance, Controlling, Accounting
- Current role (indicative): Chief Financial Officer, VP Finance, Senior VP Finance, Finance Director
- Companies (indicative): Cargill, Bunge, LDC, Olam, ADM, ETG, Oxfam, FMN, Wilmar
- 10 years or more experience
Job Specification:
Scope
- Responsible for finance &accounting function of the Group, across its operations in Nigeria/ West Africa, Dubai and emerging locations, overseeing the work of all financial controllers in each company of the Business Group
- Drives the overall improvement of the financial, accounting, risk management and audit systems, processes and capabilities across the Group
- Requires minimal supervision and manages independently the finance and accounting team
Job Specific Comments
- Preparation and execution of budgeting, monitoring and forecasting processin collaboration with the financial controllers of each company within the Business Group
- Enhancing and establish finance & accounting systems, processes and capabilities
- Develop the finance team by both internal and external recruiting and development
- Preparation of management and regulatory reporting in time and quality
- Exercising full cost control across personnel/ other costs and managing working capital
- Financial planning, review and monitoring of projects (revenues & costs, opex& capex)
- Forecasting of funding needs, identification funding sources& management of bank relations
- Managing risk, including identifying, quantifying, controlling and flagging FX, market, credit, operational and political-risks and take mitigating actions
- Strengtheninternal control and audit
- Monitoring of legal cases pertaining to the finance and accounting function
If interested please share your profiles to mailto:prabhakar@crystalconsultants.in
Thanks & Regards,
David Prabhakar
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