Financial Controller Job Vacancy at Kilombero Sugar Company Ltd | August 2024

Job Purpose
The successful candidate will be responsible for the adequacy and effectiveness of the financial control environment and governance system to ensure that all financial risks are appropriately managed and financial reports produced are accurate and timely.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead & develop the Finance Operations, Risk, Tax and Treasury teams ensuring all requirements are met.
• Ensure the adoption and deployment of standardised Group reporting policies, outputs and systems to ensure accurate and consistent reporting.
• Ensure the accuracy and integrity of the balance sheet.
• Oversee all advisory and transactional processing of tax and treasury matters as well as key subjective accounting issues.
• Drive a continuous reduction in the number of financial accounting, risk and control issues arising in the year, and develop a programme to proactively address known financial and control weaknesses.
• Continuously identify improvements in operational processes, policies and procedures and lead process optimisation and efficiency projects.
• Support your team in ensuring favourable internal and external stakeholder relationships (e.g. Commercial Banks).
• Enable compliance to IFRS – Enable team to provide technical guidance to the finance functions on IFRS issues, disclosure items, new accounting standards and complex accounting matters. Oversee and supervise the preparation of the annual report.
• Lead regular reviews with the Group Finance team providing clear and comprehensive summaries of business and accounting issues.
• Work with the wider team to review & prepare business results and supporting analysis for both internal and external use.
• Own and ensure that financial risk and effective controls are in place.
• Regularly confirm the effectiveness of controls in higher-risk processes e.g. Procurement, Manufacturing process, Supply Chain.
• Lead the relationship with external auditors, ensuring alignment on key subjective accounting issues.
• Champion UK SOX processes within the country.
• Ensure all control assessments are completed in line with Group or regulatory requirements.
• Ensures ABC (Anti-bribery and Corruption) review and overseas implementation.
• Work closely with the Internal Audit team to ensure all significant control issues are addressed.

Job Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy, Business Administration or equivalent
• Must be certified by ACCA / CPA (T) / Equivalent
• Minimum 10 years post-qualification and financial management experience
• Minimum 5 years senior management experience
• 5+ years operational experience across various functions, direct operational experience advantageous                                                                                                                                                                       

 Terms of Service: The successful candidate will be engaged on a Permanent Contract.

All interested candidates, who meet the above requirements should apply for the position on or before 27th August 2024.

Kilombero Sugar Company Limited is an equal opportunity employer. Women and people with disability are highly encouraged to apply.