General Manager (Finance) Job at Olam Agri

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 Position: General Manager (Finance)

Job 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: 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: 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:

• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• Experienced in handling audit assignments including statutory audit, Internal Audit and Tax audits and Budget exercises.