Finance Manager - Kaduna

A leading fertizer company in Kaduna

Job Description

Core Responsibilities:

1. Assume overall responsibility for developing, planning, and directing finance and accounts objectives by streamlining accounting processes, select, orientate, train, coach, and assign employees; communicate job expectations; monitor, appraise, and review.
2. Achieves accounting operational objectives by contributing accounting information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; prepares and completes action plans; and customer-service standards; completes audits and implements change.
3. Oversee or generate monthly financial statements (balance sheet, profit, and loss, cash flow).
4. Act as custodian of inventory by working very closely with Commercial Manager and Logistics Manager
5. Partner with Head of production and generate Monthly Techno – Commercial MIS along with all KPIs
6. Ensure general ledger, subsidiary ledgers, and other financial records and schedules are accurately maintained.
7. Maintain procedures to establish tight control over cash transactions.
8. Ensure timely follow up of accounts receivable and payable.
9. Evaluates; implements internal and external audit recommendations, provides feedback to management on results
10. Exercise budgetary controls, accounting/ physical controls and credit control as per laid down procedures and asset management.
11. Maintaining an effective involvement and understanding of the business to contribute to key business decisions within the Company through financial advice and expertise.
12. Provide support, service and advise in all finance matters to the company’s management.

Qualifications

1. 10 years of work experience with minimum 4-5 years in manufacturing Industry 
2. A knowledge of the techno-commercial downstream industry.
3. Excellent communication and Negotiation skills.
4. Organizational Skills and ability to manage deadlines
5. Good accounting background with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
6. Strong IT skills with the ability to understand and use computerized spreadsheet packages
7. Age not more than 35 years