Financial Operations Manager at Talenture

Job Description
Transaction Processing and Recording

Processing of payments to staff and vendors on SAP in line with internal processes and contract terms. This includes:

• APTID expenses
• Office expenses
• CAPEX Payments
• Statutory payments
• Intercompany
• Posting of petty cash replenishment and disbursement vouchers
• Reconciling bank accounts to General ledger at mid-month and month end; recording
• Responsible for reconciliation of supplier/customer accounts

Controls/Legal entity

• Ownership and continuous improvement of petty cash, credit card and business advances/retirement processes
• Preparation of tax schedules and filing upon approval. Maintain accurate tracker for all statutory payments
• Day-to-day management of the general ledger and monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• Preparation of month-end journals (for approval)
• Preparation of schedules for external audit and support to auditors as required

Documentation

• Ensure that Payment vouchers and treasury documents are properly filed through frequent checks and feedback to the admin staff
• Ensure that all tax receipts are filed both in the cabinet and on SharePoint

Business Partnering

• Provide IMS analysis to marketing and commercial teams for ad-hoc projects and to support decision making
• Ownership of IMS and SM analysis, review and forecasting meeting (with FMCL). Organizing and preparing insightful analysis to drive business understanding.
• Collaborate with relevant staff within FMCL to prepare and analyze IMS and secondary sales data and performance analysis for inclusion in period report

Financial Reporting, Planning & Analysis

• Provide Trade reports for Monthly Management Reporting Pack
• Ownership of key business information database - IMS, Van sales, Secondary sales etc.

Treasury

• Maintain up-to-date FX tracker
• Maintain relationship with bankers and follow up on execution of instructions
• Ensure treasury instructions and operations are in line with FCF

Asset

• Maintain up-to-date PPE schedule with voucher numbers
• Support the verifying and tagging of assets
• Responsible for the reconciliation of asset schedule to the general ledger
• Ensure relocation of assets are approved, properly documented and reconciled with the register each quarter

Requirements

• Qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA)
• BSc/B-TECH/ HND
• Master’s Degree/MBA
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience working in multinational Fast Moving Consumer Goods (“FMCG”) Company or practice and minimum 3 years’ experience with one of the big 4 accounting firms.
• Ideal person must have line managerial and leadership experience and should have a track record of improving processes, systems, and ways of working.
• Must have experience of working with stakeholders with different cultural backgrounds and managing key business advisors such as bankers, tax consultants and auditors.