Regional Financial Manager (West Africa) at Saint-Gobain

Manage the accounting and financial management processes including Business Control complianc within West Africa structure in order to provide management with accurate and useful information for decision making. 

Responsibilities:

Finance:

• Overall management of the management/accounting/ business controlling department for Wes Africa finance functions.
• Ensure compliance within Saint Gobain’s financial procedures (Group Doctrine)
• Lead analysis of monthly costs to ensure alignment with Budget or RF.
• Create, coordinate and evaluate the financial programs and supporting information systems of the entity to include budgeting, quarterly (Rolling Forecasting) and LRP
• Approve and coordinate changes and improvements in automated financial and management information systems for the entity
• Ensure compliance with local and statutory budgetary reporting requirements
• Overall responsibility for the integrity of the West African entities,  trial balances, including review and authorisation of general ledger reconciliations
• Develop and implement finance, accounting billing and auditing procedures
• Establish and maintain appropriate internal/business control environment
• Interact with BU Head to provide consultative support to planning initiatives through financial and management information analyses, reports and recommendations
• Analyse financial statements to identify potential opportunities and issues
• Monthly Reporting
• Challenge and understanding BU results,
• Coaching and supporting team in reporting and analysis, synthesis of results
• All such duties and/or activities assigned by management/board as and when required.

Regional Role:

• Result analysis though extraction tool, then monthly review and elaborate 10 lines comments per businesses as well as the monthly CFO comments for Group.
• Communication of the monthly flash result to CFO
• Preparation of the monthly result presentation for the CFO about regional performance
• Annual business review and B&S Review per businesses.
• Guide, training and support on new acquisition on Group Reporting and tools.
• Interface with Headoffice GIM regional financial controller.
• Coordination of Budget and LRP with GIM businesses.

Business Control Compliance

• Manage Compliance
• Produce and implement policies
• Provide training where necessary
• Mitigate compliance risks
• Provide legal and compliance risk management
• Research and evaluate different risk factors regarding business decisions and operations
• Apply effective risk management techniques and offer proactive advise on possible legal issues
• Liaise with the relevant departments to ensure that where legal and compliance risks have been identified, appropriate courses of action have been taken
• Provide assistance to business in managing reputational risk in relation to legal and compliance affairs

Qualifications

• Qualified CA/ CIMA or Honours Degree (preferably B.Com Accounting)
• MBA (added advantage)

Required skills

• 10 Years experience in a manufacturing business would be a distinct advantage
• Experience in an ERP system environment, preferably SAP-B1
• Knowledge of finance, accounting, budgeting and cost control principles including IFRS
• Knowledge of automated financial and reporting systems
• Ability to analyse financial data and prepare financial reports, statements and projections
• Computer Literacy (MS Office and SAP-B1)
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) skills;
• Structural planning skills
• Resilience and stress management
• Excellence / Quality Orientation
• Drive and results oriented
• Building strategic relationships / Networking
• Business insight and Risk Awareness
• Anticipating and managing Change
• Problem Solving
• Judgement and decision-making
• Conceptual / big picture thinking
• Teamwork