Finance Analyst, West Africa at Upfield Nigeria

Fixed Term Contract: 7 Months
Reports to: Finance Controller, West Africa

Want to make an impact where it matters?

• At Upfield our purpose is clear: we make people healthier and happier with nutritious and delicious, natural, plant-based products that are good for you, our planet; and with packaging that’s free from plastic.
• We are the largest plant-based company in the world, and we believe in doing what’s right for our people, our customers and the planet.
• We’ve got iconic brands like Rama, Country Crock, Blue Band and Flora that people all over the world know and love. We’ve been a trusted category leader since 1871 and yet we feel like we’re only just getting started.
• Performance, Passion and Care define who we are as a company, how we work every day, and the responsibility we feel toward our Associates, our consumers, our business partners and our world.
• We have big ambitions to grow this business and we want to attract the right people – those that love what they do, thrive on responsibility and are looking for limitless career defining opportunities.
• You’ll have to enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and it will take hard work and determination; we will give you the ownership you need to make an impact.
• You’ll have to deliver on the commitments you make. And we’ll give you the freedom and flexibility to do your job and build your own career.
• If you want to make an impact where it matters apply now!

Your Role
OVH, BMI and Forecasting:

• Management reporting including Financial forecasting/budgeting and longer-term strategic planning processes
• Managing and reporting of OVHs and BMI costs
• Ensure correct bookings of costs in P&L as per SCOA
• Forecast working capital
• Support related budget owners
• Provide assistance in forecasting and other ad-hoc business analysis
• OC Governance, continuous improvement on rule-based journals + controls
• Provide ad-hoc support to countries within the BU

P2P Analysis:

• P2P OC Governance, continuous Improvement on P2P Processes + controls
• Working Capital forecasting, reporting and commentary;
• Partnering BMI and Overheads teams with P2P processes
• P2P Metrics – POT (Payment on time), POC (PO Compliance), FPY (First Pass Yield) – working with/ supporting OC with directive to improve metrics
• Approval of urgent/ manual payments
• Query Escalations from business on poor service/ issues after contacting AP helpdesk/ OC/ BCS Agent
• Resolve audit queries which IBM/ OC cannot resolve
• GRNI support
• Provide ad-hoc support to countries within the BU

O2C and credit controls:

• Manage customer overdues across all customers
• Improve working capital through management of customer payment performance and trade term compliance
• Manage and mitigate bad debt and minimize bad debt provision
• Work with the shared service teams to ensure effective and aligned communication and deliverables are met
• Worked with shared service teams to ensure that accounts are reconciled correctly, customer statements issued in a timely manner
• Work with shared service and other internal functions to ensure that customer claims are placed in a timely manner and support the resolution of deductions on customer accounts
• Ensure accurate and timely month end reporting
• Support first line investigation and resolution of EDI issues
• Raise manual accruals for CD trade terms
• Prepare and validate rebate review
• Allocate promotional invoices against correct rebates
• Resolve deductions, disputed claims that IBM cannot resolve with the CD team
• Provided support for statutory reporting requirements

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• A very strong academic record
• Excellent understanding of financial metrics and FFG Financial processes
• Very strong track record of delivery in previous Finance roles
• Very strong work ethic, resilience in the face of pressure and ability to meet multiple stretching deadlines
• Good team player With great communication skills 
• Strong analytical bias and excellent attention to detail
• Microsoft Excel skills and PowerPoint capability.