Financial Controller

About the Role
This role is responsible for overseeing financial planning, analysis, and management within a specific division, ensuring alignment with the organization's overall financial strategy. It encompasses providing financial insights, budgeting, forecasting, and resource allocation guidance to support strategic decision-making and enhance operational efficiency within the division.

Key Accountability Areas
Strategic Financial Planning:

• Develop financial strategies that support business growth and sustainability.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning processes.

Performance & Profitability Management:

• Monitor key financial metrics and business performance.
• Analyze variances and recommend actions to improve margins and cost efficiency.

Decision Support & Business Analysis:

• Provide financial insights for pricing, investments, and operational decisions.
• Build business cases and conduct scenario modeling to guide strategic choices.

Cost Control & Resource Optimization:

• Identify and implement cost-saving initiatives.
• Ensure optimal allocation of financial resources across business units.

Governance, Risk & Compliance:

• Maintain strong internal controls and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Coordinate with audit, tax, and legal teams to manage financial risks.

Reporting & Financial Insights:

• Deliver accurate and timely financial reports to leadership.
• Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for decision-makers.

Role Accountability
HR Proficiency:

• Recruit, recognize, and cultivate high performers while creating a robust second line of management.
• Guide low performers towards improvement or manage their transition.
• Treat subordinates equally without discrimination, assessing them based on performance leading to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix per company policy.

Responsibility:

• Take full responsibility for operations according to the job description and required deliverables, considering the general company guidelines.
• Anticipate problems and take proactive steps to prevent them.
• Make timely and necessary decisions.

Delivery:

• Deliver results in a timely manner while meeting quality and cost requirements.

Making a Tangible Difference:

• Contribute significantly to the area of operation and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance:

• Transform corporate goals into actionable business plans.
• Plan, follow up, and execute these plans, whether annual or developmental.
• Monitor plan performance and initiate corrective actions as necessary.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Monitor and control budgets and expenses to achieve optimal cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:

• Develop the organizational structure aligned with current requirements and future plans.
• Ensure job descriptions are available for all job roles and their deployment.

Business Process Improvements:

• Develop and coordinate well-defined systems, policies, and procedures, seeking automation opportunities wherever possible.
• Navigate IT solutions relevant to the job and business effectively.
• Promote full use of automated systems to foster a culture of efficiency.

Quality:

• Uphold quality as a competitive advantage and act accordingly.

Adaptation:

• Adapt to new techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legally compliant work environment according to standard regulations.

Academic Qualification

• Bachelor Degree in Accounting and Finance or any relevant field.

Work Experience

• 6 to 10 years.

Technical / Functional Competencies

• Accounting Best Practices
• Accounting Methods
• Accounting Principles
• Accounting Rules/Guidelines
• Accounting Systems
• Accounting Theory/Concepts
• Financial Analysis
• Financial Forecasting
• Financial Modeling
• Financial Planning
• Financial Reporting
• Financial Statement Preparation
• Mergers and Acquisitions