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Company Name: Sucafina
Job Description
Job Title: Record to Report Team Lead
Reporting to: Head of Finance Center of Excellence - Africa
Department: Finance
Summary of the role
Your objectives should focus on maintaining the efficiency and effectiveness of the team, ensuring compliance with financial regulations.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Undertake a supervisor role and be expected to manage a team of Accountants. The primary responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
Team Leadership:
- Lead and mentor a team of 5-10 accountants, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment.
- Provide guidance/training and support to team members in resolving complex accounting issues and ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting
- Provide work allocations and, backup plan.
- Key responsibility of building a strong GL team and contributing to implementation across the Group.
General Accounting Processes
- Oversee general accounting functions, including journal entries, B/S reconciliations, and month-end/year-end closings to ensure they are accurate and submitted on time.
- Review and approve journal entries, reconciliations, and adjustments.
Financial Reporting
- Ensure that transactional accounting postings to general ledgers are accurate for the purpose of charging to the correct expense accounts and quality of transactions.
- Review and provide data and information for periodic management reporting.
- Validate all reports prepared by the team and submit to Accounting Managers in respect of the deadline and ensure the quality of reports.
- Prepare G&A management reports, provide in-depth analysis with Actual vs Actual and Actual vs Budget on a monthly basis.
- Record and ensure the accuracy and timely reconciliations of Intercompany ledgers and comply with Group Intercompany Policy
Process management:
- Identify areas for process improvement. Implement new procedures or systems to increase efficiency and reduce errors.
- Work with the SSC head on KPIs measurements, implementations, and enhancements of the process in charges
- Identify financial risks and implement controls to mitigate them.
- Collaborate with IT to address any system issues or upgrades
- Lead or participate in special projects as the key super-user
- Any other responsibility may be assigned by the Head of the Centre of Excellence
Qualifications and Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with a major in accounting/Finance.
- CPAK or Finalist
- ACCA Finalist
Experience
- 5 years /more of related experience in SSC or COE
- Experience in a public accounting and a commodity trading company is preferable but not required
Technical Competences
- Strong accounting knowledge
- SAP FICO expertise
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and Accounting software.
- Understanding and practice of US GAAP and IFRS
Behavioral Competences
- Confidentiality - Deal with sensitive and confidential matters
- Integrity - Honest and has high level of ethics
- Strong Organization Skill
- Detail Oriented – Attention to details
- Teamwork - Pleasant with others, displays a cooperative attitude
- Have "own it" culture
- Responsive, smart & fast learner and continuously learning and developing
- Positive attitude
- Critical thinking
- Leadership skills
Languages
Other requirement
- Ability to work under stress and respond to tight deadlines
