Group Head of Treasury, Regional Controllers in a Leading Manufacturing Company in Nigeria

Vacancies: Group Head of Treasury, Regional Controllers

 

Employment Opportunities in a Leading Manufacturing Company in Nigeria

 

Company Profile

Our client is the market leader within the Nigerian manufacturing industry. The Company is expand­ing operations across Africa and has embarked on several transformation initiatives aimed at building world-class processes, systems and infrastructure, to enable it to consolidate on its market leadership position.

 

The Company has identified the need to recruit dynamic, competent and suitably qualified pro­fessionals to fill the following positions within its Finance Function:

 

 

Position: Group Head of Treasury (GHTR – C003)

 

Reporting to the Group CFO, the successful can­didate will be responsible for effective manage­ment of the company’s liquidity; loans and debt profiles; investment portfolios; financial and cur­rency risks assessments, across the Group.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement strategies to antici­pate and meet the Group’s short, medium and long term financing needs at a reasonable cost while ensuring alignment with organizational goals and objectives.
• Ensure judicious management of the Group’s liquidity to meet its medium-term require­ments and obligations with focus on cash management and cash forecasting.
• Establish processes to support the identifica­tion of financial risks and exposure and the un­dertaking of appropriate foreign exchange and interest rate hedging decisions.
• Coordinate relationships with banks and in­vestment managers.
• Ensure timely and accurate preparation of monthly and quarterly liquidity and investment reports.

 

 

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in any rel­evant discipline.
• Relevant professional accounting/ finance cer­tification (e.g. ACA, CFA/ MBA in Finance).
• Minimum of twelve (12) years relevant experi­ence with at least three (3) in a senior man­agement position
• Good understanding of micro and macroeconomic indices and its impact on the Group’s operations.
• Strong understanding of international treasury (corporate and/ or banking) operations, risk management and bank relationship manage­ment.
• Good understanding of debt and equity structuring.
• Strong understanding of cash forecast models.
• Demonstrated commitment to ethical stand­ards and high level of integrity.
• Strong leadership and people management skills including the ability to manage cross-cultural teams effectively.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills.

 

 

 

Position: Regional Controllers (RC – C004)

 

Reporting to the Regional CFOs, the successful candidates will have overall responsibility for co­ordinating accounting procedures including pro­cedures and timetables for the month-end and year-end closing for assigned regions in line with statutory guidelines and Group finance policies. He/ she will have overall accountability for main­taining financial controls with respect to assigned region.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the implementation of common reporting structures and guidelines across assigned
• Provide support in building local Finance teams in each subsidiary.
• Provide Regional CFOs with consolidated project accounts on a periodic basis, in line with agreed report format.
• Undertake periodic international travel to oversee regional finance operations in countries/operations within assigned region.

 

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in Account­ing, Economics, Finance or other related discipline.
• Relevant professional accounting/ finance certification (e.g. ACA).
• Minimum of ten (10) years relevant experience with at least three (3) in a supervisory position.
• Good understanding of trends, challenges, op­portunities, regulations and legislations relat­ing to the manufacturing industry.
• Strong financial and accounting knowledge, including understanding of finance best prac­tices and IFRS/ international accounting and financial reporting standards
• Sound business acumen – financial and com­mercial knowledge.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities
• Working knowledge of accounting systems, including SAP.
• Knowledge of French will be an added advantage.
• Knowledge of OHADA and SYSCOA.

 

How to Apply:

All applications must be submitted not later 25^th April, 2013 by email to corporaterecruitment@ng.kpmg.com  with the relevant job title and code stated in the subject line of the email.

 

 

Each application must include:

• A cover letter indicating the applicant’s position of interest and detailed contact information.
• Applicant’s curriculum vitae.

 

All applications will be treated in confidence.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.