Location: Accra, Ghana
Product Information
Cashew
We’re a super-specialist in all things Cashew – RCN, Kernels, Value added Kernels, and specialized products such as powders, butter, and beyond. We are the most integrated Cashew supplier globally with a leading presence in all key producing countries across Africa, Asia, and South East Asia. In our direct sourcing, our traceability from the farm to the factory allows us to drive sustainable practices across the Cashew supply chain.
Purpose of the role
We are seeking Finance Managers for our West Africa operations to support our team in Ghana with overseeing responsibility for Burkina Faso to drive financial excellence and strategic growth
Job Description
- Monthly closure of management books, financial books, balance sheet review, quarterly audit packs, and variance analysis and 100% adherence to reporting timelines
- Review of Physical vs SAP reconciliation of all categories of inventory, inventory valuation, cost of goods sold reconciliations, grade-wise cost movements, bin-wise cleaning out-turns
- Ability to track, understand and evaluate trade positions, and manage risk around commodity trading decisions
- Budget vs Actuals analysis for direct cost, costs, direct selling expenses overheads, and interest.
- Preparation of monthly M2M files, BRM, fair valuation files, gross contribution reconciliations, weekly book values
- Preparation and submission of management by exception reports
- Monitoring and reporting of risk exposures for credit, counterparty, currency, positions, and price, validation of controls to mitigate operational risks
- Anchoring fund planning during procurement season and monitoring payment efficiency
- Component-wise monitoring, analysis, and reporting of working capital-related variances against budgets and actively following up on subsidy receivables, trade receivables for collection, and slow-moving inventory for liquidation
- Review of bank, customer, and vendor reconciliations with confirmations/statements and reconciliation of VAT, payroll deductions, and withholding taxes with respective statutory returns
- Handling of audits under Local regulatory authorities, centralized audits by statutory auditors, internal audits, tax/customs controls, cross-country audits
- Driver-based profitability budgeting
- Preparation and validation of CAPEX project proposals, investment thesis, and tracking, monitoring, and reporting of actual spending against budgets at the component level
- Ensuring adequacy of physical security measures, insurance coverage for mitigating risks,
- Maintenance of transfer pricing documentation and compliance with transfer pricing policy
- Audit of sops, controls, compliance with financial authority matrix
- Identify venues for maximizing trade structured finance deals.
- Anchor for all IT, digital, continued business improvement projects
Education, skills, and experiences required.
- 7-8 years of finance experience in a similar sized organization, able to handle 200-300 Mn$ of Turnover.
- Qualified Finance Professional with a degree that covers extensive Financial Education in Derivatives, Futures, Currency, Options, and Trading. Equivalent qualifications would be CA or CPA (but with core experience of handling Taxation IFRS/SFRS education and experience
- Financial Planning and Analysis or similar Finance Manager Experience
- Ability to learn in a dynamic and progressive environment.
- High English Communication (both written and verbal) proficiency to be able to work with global stakeholders (Corporate Finance, BU, Internal audit, etc). Knowledge of French is a plus.
- Highly Proficient in Mathematics (ability to share key insights from numbers) and Microsoft Excel
- Ability to multi-task in a complex finance and operations environment
- Ability to manage a multi-location finance team.
- Business Partnering Experience to deliver profitability along with business.
How to apply
Ms. Nguyen Thi Hai Yen, Associate Consultant, EV Search
E-mail: yen.nguyen@ev-search.com
