Finance Business Partner at GBfoods

Job Description
Cost Accounting:

• Assist with the costing process and ensure that standard costs for current and new products reflect the true picture and that any changes are pro-actively reconciled and communicated.
• Identify cost reduction opportunities, control factory overheads and ensure cost efficiencies are maintained
• Assist with coordination of timely closing of production orders and calculation of Costs of Good Sold including allocation of production overheads

Management Accounting:

• Periodic tracking of business performance against target with explanations for the variances between actual and target.
• Control and analyze cost center expenses, obtain explanation for deviations from budget holders
• Generate timely and accurate reports for management, auditors and other stakeholders

Financial Analysis & Budgeting:

• Conduct financial analysis to identify trends, issues and opportunities for the management to make informed decisions
• Develop budgets, and budgetary control measures towards achieving planned profits

Audit & Control:

• Periodic physical count of inventories and reconciliation of system balances
• Analyze material usage variance report, co-ordinate annual budget formulation, monitoring, and Implementation

Month End Closing:

• Assist with month end closing activities including production declaration, industrial activities, and factory overheads
• Coordinate the periodic reconciliation of inventories of raw and packaging materials, spares, and diesel consumption

Site Finance:

• Actively monitor site transactions in the system for accomplishments of month end and year-end reporting deadlines.
• Assist with financial aspects of site projects to ensure the project’s objectives are achieved

Requirements

• Ability to work independently
• Good Project Management Skills 
• Hausa Language speaker is an added advantage
• FMCG experience is a plus