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 and Accounts

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 successful candidate you will be able to demonstrate ability to link business decisions to financial impacts.

Responsibilities
Controllership:

• You are a controller that ensures accurate, efficient and timely delivery of relevant reports, while ensuring hygiene of accounting, book-keeping, various systems and processes.

Performance Officer:

• 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:

• You also ensure & support value maximization initiatives (interest, Trade Finance, currency management, etc.)

Co-Strategist:

• 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 for a Finance Controller:
Business Financial Insights:

• Your in-depth knowledge on financial/management accounting principles will help us to accurately reflect the business performance.

Controls, Compliance & Assurance:

• 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:

• 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 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.