Financial Controller at Reime West Africa Limited

Purposes of the Position

• Ensures Group reporting on time and at the expected level of quality while guaranteeing compliance with accounting, tax, local and legal standards and procedures, as well as internal control.
• Guarantee the good financial management of the company.
• Control the proper execution of the strategy and procedures defined with management and coordinate the services for which he is responsible.

Job Functions And Responsibilities
Cost and project financial control:

• Review and continuous management of project P&L.
• Ensure proper management of General and Administrative expenses.
• Manage project level treasury
• Ensure accuracy of WIP and Accrual valuations and their compliance with the group policy.
• Ensure timely billing of the WIP and compliance with the customers requirement for billing terms.

Administrative management:

• Implement and monitor the internal control systems established by the group and define local internal control activities for areas not covered by the group policies.
• Set up the management procedures and indicators necessary for monitoring activities and reporting to management.

Accounting, management control, reporting:

• Guarantee the reliability of the revenue and cost data in accordance with the local legislation and group policy.
• Review the financial information prepared by operations department for accuracy and compliance with the set rules.
• Ensure that the project teams comply with deadlines and procedures and ensure the production the project data required for any reporting need.
• Calculate the provisions, cost accruals and WIP at the end of each reporting period.
• Prepare the budget and the business plan in accordance with the strategic choices of the shareholder and the general management.
• Take ownership of the P&L reporting to the management.

Project Cash flow and Billing of WIP:

• Develop the project level financing plans and validate the cash requirements for each project.
• Evaluate the request for project budget variations and submit to the Finance director to validate on a timely basis.

Business law, taxation:

• Control the Tax compliance by during the procurement and sales invoicing process.
• Ensure compliance with legislation, ensure legal and contractual monitoring.

Human resources:

• Manage the project financial controller team.
• Provide necessary training to the different stakeholders in relation to financial control and group policies.

Information system, organization, procedures:

• Pilot the implementation of new management tools, such as ERP, Reporting tools and so on.

Communication:

• Guarantee the reliability of financial performance information.

Pre-Sales and Sales:

• Support the sales department to prepare project P&L for bidding or any other purposes.

Purchases:

• Perform regular analysis on the purchase prices and publish quarterly reports.

Internal audit:

• Supervise the internal audit missions of the company's departments.

Initial Training And Experiences Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance-Accounting, Control-Accounting-Audit with a minimum of 4 years of experience as financial controller in the Telecoms sector.

Knowledge And Skills Required:

• Knowledge of finance, accounting, Tax and business law, taxation audit support, statutory audit support, management control.
• Cross-disciplinary and hierarchical management
• English essential

Required Qualities:

• Organization / Adaptation / Rigor / Critical and synthetic mind / Ability to be versatile / Anticipation / Intellectual integrity / Pragmatism.