Financial Controller at Ascentech Services Limited

Ascentech Services Limited – Our client, a reputable FMCG group, is currently recruiting a Financial Controller.

Qualification:    Graduate of Accounting or Finance is preferred. Must be a Chartered Accountant (i.e. ACA, ACCA, etc.)

Key Responsibilities:

• Overall revenue in line with agreed costing
• Discounts given are in line with agreement with policies
• Costing file are prepared in line with company policies are duly adhered to
• Directionally profitability is in line with budgets and work with BH on the same
• Timely and accurate reporting as agreed
• Overall Internal and Management audit reports
• Overall sanity in credit control and AR
• Establishing a mechanism/checklist to ensure operations are under control
• Overall governance in CAPEX management
• Overall statutory compliance work
• Creating a productive, happy team
• Developing skill sets of team members and initiating external intervention if required
• Having a clear understanding of interest cost expected vis-à-vis budgets
• Ensuring accuracy of interest cost debited
• Ensuring financials reflect the correct cost debited
• Developing & Implementing action plan to reduce interest cost
• Having a clear understanding on other charges debited by bank
• Ensuring accuracy of debits
• Ensuring financials reflect the correct cost debited
• Completeness and accuracy of bank reconciliations & ensuring no open items beyond 30 days
• Completeness and accuracy of cash reconciliations & ensuring no open items beyond 30 days
• Ensuring all channels of inflow are categorically understood and optimized
• Timeliness/completeness and accuracy of inflow related areas
• Timely and correct accounting of Inflow's
• Ensuring accuracy of all outflow  and timely accounting of all outflows
• Ensuring collection plans are driven to meet them
• Ensuring completeness & accuracy
• Ensuring financials reflect correct status
• Ensuring there are no overdue unless agreed

Education / Experience / & Other Essential Requirements:       

• BSc/HND in Accounting, Finance or a relevant discipline. MBA or MSc in a similar discipline will be a plus.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in commercial, finance, accounts and costing – exposure to manufacturing of, especially flexible packaging, will be added advantage. 
• Good experience of working with multiple business heads and managing large team multi-cultural staff. The candidate must be commercially savvy, with business understanding and should act as a strong support to the Business Heads and CFO.

Skills & Competencies:

• Integrity
• Planning & organizing
• Meeting commitments
• Resource management
• Result orientation
• Personal motivation & initiative
• Problem solving/analytical ability
• Information gathering

PS: Manufacturing industry experience is a requirement.