Financial Controller - Mozambique

Olam Agri; Mumbai; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent agricultural company in Mumbai is seeking a Finance Controller. The successful candidate will have extensive experience in financial control, business finance, and accounting. Responsibilities include ensuring P&L transparency, leading performance tracking, and compliance with regulations. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills. A Chartered accountant with 10+ years post-qualification experience is required for this crucial role.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in financial control and finance roles.
• Experience in plant and manufacturing accounting and finance.

Responsibilities

• Ensure accurate, efficient, and timely delivery of financial reports.
• Lead budgetary process improvements and enhance predictability.
• Support value maximization initiatives through analytics.
• Evaluate risks and ensure compliance with audit regulations.
• Demonstrate ability to implement robust financial processes.

Skills

Negotiating skills

Interpersonal skills

Attention to detail

Commercial problem-solving

Creative thinking

Business partnering

Stakeholder management

Education

Chartered accountant

Job description

Job Description

Finance is a contemporary and forward-looking function that is driving value by being a world-class partner to our business. As a Finance Controller you will partner with the business unit in the country (Business Head, Sales & Functional leads) to ensure P&L transparency & accuracy and to drive the business towards targets & operational KPIs achievement. As successful candidate you will be able to demonstrate ability to link business decisions to financial impacts.

Key Attributes

• Controllership: You are a controller that ensures accurate, efficient and timely delivery of relevant reports.
• Performance Officer: You help us to be on track with robust and timely performance tracking. You will ensure budgetary process improvements and achieve better predictability on outcomes.
• Value Manager: You also ensure & support value maximization initiatives (interest, Trade Finance etc.)
• Co-Strategist: You are our strategist, you help in dept value-added decision support through superior data analytics and help us drive special projects to growth. Ensure and support value maximization initiatives (Interest, Trade Finance etc.)

Impact Areas

Business Financial Insights

Your in-depth knowledge on financial/management accounting principles will help us to accurately reflect the business performance.

• Financial Impact on Strategy Execution
• Business/ Country Economics & Regulations

Controls, Compliance & Assurance

Your ability to evaluate risks and determining their impact on the management audit, developing and/or modifying audit procedures as required. You ensure compliances to legal and secretarial requirements as well as functioning within the norms of statutory audit regulations respective to country/ business.

• Internal Controls
• Compliance Measures
• Measure & Assurance

Reporting & process efficiencies

The finance controller demonstrates conceptual ability to ideate and implement robust systems & processes suited to business/ country. You also display accuracy and efficiency in MIS reporting, budgeting.

Capability Building

Build capability in finance function, growing finance leadership pipeline and ensuring effective knowledge & expertise transfer for effective execution of finance strategies

• Personal Credibility & Thought Leadership
• Building Functional Capability

Job Requirements

Experience:

• Extensive experience (typically 10+ years) in financial control, finance and accounts, business finance, supply chain finance with a proven track record.
• Specific experiences/ requirements:
• Plant accounting and finance
• Manufacturing accounting and finance.

Skills and Competencies:

• Good negotiating skills and interpersonal skills.
• Robust attention to detail.
• Strong commercial, problem-solving ability and creative thinking.
• Collaborative and team oriented.
• Business partnering and stakeholder management.

Education:

• Charted accountant with 10+ years of post-qualification work experience.

Olam Agri is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, nationality, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Applicants are requested to complete all required steps in the application process including providing a resume/CV in order to be considered for open roles.