Financial Planning & Accounting Associate
Aldelia Group - Our client, a multinational manufacturing company, is recruiting to fill the below position:
Job Position: Financial Planning & Accounting Associate
Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Description
This position is established to support the FP&A Manager and the local Management Team in the following areas:
- Financial planning cycles (ASP/LE/OL), analysis and reporting of the actual business performance,
- Financial reporting of volumes and financials, with related variance analysis and road-maps
- Improvement of the entity internal controls environment and business processes, review and upgrade of the local policies and procedures, integration of local information systems
- Control and management of OPEX and marketing budget (internal orders).
- Planning and budgeting cycle
- Actively take part in the preparation of the ASP, LEs and OL cycles in line with company's reporting guidelines by:
- Timely and accurate data submission to Sub-region finance.
- Data load into MESSA-SSA financial reporting tool (TM1 Cognos) and BWP.
- Participate in documenting CFO Briefs, roadmaps and related documents as required.
- Actively participate in the preparation of business documents as required by local management.
Financial Reporting
Assist the FP&A function by actively participating in preparing:
- Weekly and monthly volume reports for West Africa.
- Financial and volume CFO Briefs for West Africa.
- Variance analysis of the gross margin (price/cost, volume, mix); overall analysis of OCC.
- Monthly business performance dashboard - management report.
- Monthly reports for OPEX (G&A and C&TM) and Marketing, analyze the variances versus AP/LE/PY and obtain explanations of the variances from cost center owners.
- Monthly update of West Africa currency ratios.
- Monthly submissions of Webtool (SPFG inventory) forecasts, ensuring no negative production requirements.
- Internal controls over financial reporting and policies & procedures
Strengthen the existing control environment in order to help limited accomplish their financial objectives by:
- Preparing offline files that will assist the effective monitoring of:
- Monthly marketing expenditure (including TITP) report by Brand / project.
- Monthly OPEX reporting by Function & P&L line.
- Document control for FP&A related tasks.
- Month-end accounting closing process
- Participate in the monthly closing process and assist the local Finance Team with the preparation of the entity trial balances
- Review of data loaded in BWP and PRD (the company SAP Business Warehouse) and prepare related SRT journals (if required)
Minimum Requirements
- University Degree in Finance & Accounting; Accounting Qualification is required or in process.
- Minimum 3 years preferably in a similar position within an international environment or in an financial consulting firm.
- Fluent in English is a must. SAP R/3 and BI tools knowledge is a plus.
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