Business Controller at Lington & Bernie Consulting Limited

Responsibilities
The responsibilities of the job holder will be to:

• Participate in the preparation of the Monthly Reporting to Management and Corporate Head Office in partnership with the Chief Accountant.
• Prepare the Budget and Mid-term Plan for the various entities.
• Check and control the reliability of cost accounting and management information from different reports.
• Develop and implement KPs by activity to immediately alert potential drift.
• Propose areas of improvement for OPEX monitoring and reduction.
• Participate in strengthening and training the Credit Controllers and Debts Collectors.
• Improve the monitoring of the Branch activities.
• Establish procedures and management processes when necessary.
• Always implement ANZEN and KAIZEN principles.
• Any other tasks as may be assigned from time to time by the manager.

Financial:

• providing accurate and timely financial reports
• maintaining internal control systems

Internal Process:

• Monitoring day to day cash flow and expenses of the business.

Customer:

• Customer Satisfaction

Learning & Growth:

• Competency Development
• Workshop and Training

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or HND in Accounting.
• Minimum of 3+ years related work experience.
• Membership of relevant professional bodies preferably ICAN.
• Membership ACA, ACCA will be an added advantage.

Required Competencies: 

• Financial reporting.
• Applies accounting principles and concepts in recording and analysing business and financial transactions, in accordance with professional and regulatory/statutory requirements.
• Applying Month-End Close concepts and procedures to enable the closure of accounting books in a timely and accurate fashion.
• General knowledge of the uses and applications of MS Office suite: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook etc.

Communication Skills:

• Excellent verbal & written communications skills.
• Good presentation skill.

Technical Skills:

• Financial Reporting skill.
• Numeric Skill.
• Upholding quality and continuous improvement.

Personal Attributes:

• High level of integrity.
• Results Orientation.
• Excellent interpersonal skills & people skills.
• High level of personal effectiveness.
• Time management skills.
• Strong Attention to Details.

Specific Behavioural Skills :

• Customer Service Orientation.
• Presentation skills.

Core Values:

• Performance.
• Entrepreneurship.
• Agility.
• Diversity.