Manage the accounting and financial management processes including Business Control complianc within West Africa structure in order to provide management with accurate and useful information for decision making.

Responsibilities:

Finance:

Overall management of the management/accounting/ business controlling department for Wes Africa finance functions.

Ensure compliance within Saint Gobain's financial procedures (Group Doctrine)

Lead analysis of monthly costs to ensure alignment with Budget or RF.

Create, coordinate and evaluate the financial programs and supporting information systems of the entity to include budgeting, quarterly (Rolling Forecasting) and LRP

Approve and coordinate changes and improvements in automated financial and management information systems for the entity

Ensure compliance with local and statutory budgetary reporting requirements

Overall responsibility for the integrity of the West African entities, trial balances, including review and authorisation of general ledger reconciliations

Develop and implement finance, accounting billing and auditing procedures

Establish and maintain appropriate internal/business control environment

Interact with BU Head to provide consultative support to planning initiatives through financial and management information analyses, reports and recommendations

Analyse financial statements to identify potential opportunities and issues

Monthly Reporting

Challenge and understanding BU results,

Coaching and supporting team in reporting and analysis, synthesis of results

All such duties and/or activities assigned by management/board as and when required.

Regional Role:

Result analysis though extraction tool, then monthly review and elaborate 10 lines comments per businesses as well as the monthly CFO comments for Group.

Communication of the monthly flash result to CFO

Preparation of the monthly result presentation for the CFO about regional performance

Annual business review and B&S Review per businesses.

Guide, training and support on new acquisition on Group Reporting and tools.

Interface with Headoffice GIM regional financial controller.

Coordination of Budget and LRP with GIM businesses.

Business Control Compliance

Manage Compliance

Produce and implement policies

Provide training where necessary

Mitigate compliance risks

Provide legal and compliance risk management

Research and evaluate different risk factors regarding business decisions and operations

Apply effective risk management techniques and offer proactive advise on possible legal issues

Liaise with the relevant departments to ensure that where legal and compliance risks have been identified, appropriate courses of action have been taken

Provide assistance to business in managing reputational risk in relation to legal and compliance affairs

Qualifications

Qualified CA/ CIMA or Honours Degree (preferably B.Com Accounting)

MBA (added advantage)

Required skills

10 Years experience in a manufacturing business would be a distinct advantage

Experience in an ERP system environment, preferably SAP-B1

Knowledge of finance, accounting, budgeting and cost control principles including IFRS

Knowledge of automated financial and reporting systems

Ability to analyse financial data and prepare financial reports, statements and projections

Computer Literacy (MS Office and SAP-B1)

Excellent communication (written and verbal) skills;

Structural planning skills

Resilience and stress management

Excellence / Quality Orientation

Drive and results oriented

Building strategic relationships / Networking

Business insight and Risk Awareness

Anticipating and managing Change

Problem Solving

Judgement and decision-making

Conceptual / big picture thinking

Teamwork