Financial Planning & Accounting Associates at a Multinational Manufacturing Company - Aldelia Group

Job Description  This position is established to support the FP&A Manager and the local Management Team in the following areas:

• Financial planning cycles (ASP/LE/OL), analysis and reporting of the actual business performance,
• Financial reporting of volumes and financials, with related variance analysis and road-maps
• Improvement of the entity internal controls environment and business processes, review and upgrade of the local policies and procedures, integration of local information systems
• Control and management of OPEX and marketing budget (internal orders).
• Planning and budgeting cycle
• Actively take part in the preparation of the ASP, LEs and OL cycles in line with company's reporting guidelines by:
  • Timely and accurate data submission to Sub-region finance.
  • Data load into MESSA-SSA financial reporting tool (TM1 Cognos) and BWP.
  • Participate in documenting CFO Briefs, roadmaps and related documents as required.
  • Actively participate in the preparation of business documents as required by local management.

Financial Reporting
Assist the FP&A function by actively participating in preparing:

• Weekly and monthly volume reports for West Africa.
• Financial and volume CFO Briefs for West Africa.
• Variance analysis of the gross margin (price/cost, volume, mix); overall analysis of OCC.
• Monthly business performance dashboard - management report.
• Monthly reports for OPEX (G&A and C&TM) and Marketing, analyze the variances versus AP/LE/PY and obtain explanations of the variances from cost center owners.
• Monthly update of West Africa currency ratios.
• Monthly submissions of Webtool (SPFG inventory) forecasts, ensuring no negative production requirements.
• Internal controls over financial reporting and policies & procedures

Strengthen the existing control environment in order to help limited accomplish their financial objectives by:

• Preparing offline files that will assist the effective monitoring of:
  • Monthly marketing expenditure (including TITP) report by Brand / project.
  • Monthly OPEX reporting by Function & P&L line.
  • Document control for FP&A related tasks.
  • Month-end accounting closing process
  • Participate in the monthly closing process and assist the local Finance Team with the preparation of the entity trial balances
  • Review of data loaded in BWP and PRD (the company SAP Business Warehouse) and prepare related SRT journals (if required)

Minimum Requirements

• University Degree in Finance & Accounting; Accounting Qualification is required or in process.
• Minimum 3 years preferably in a similar position within an international environment or in an financial consulting firm.
• Fluent in English is a must. SAP R/3 and BI tools knowledge is a plus.