Business Controller
Black Pen Recruitment
- Nigeria
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 7+ years combined experience working Financial Accounting, Management
- Accounting and/or Commercial Finance, including 4+ years reporting and budgeting experience
- Fully professionally qualified CA/ACA/ACCA/ACMA/CFA
- Previous experience working in Group or Regional level Commercial Finance teams
- Person Specifications:
- Excellent Excel and financial modelling skills, analytical mindset
- Excellent English communication and presentation skills
- Ability to summarise complex concepts clearly and concisely to senior internal and external stakeholders
- Understands the big picture and able to prioritise time to be spent on the big ticket items which are going to move the needle
- Strong attention to detail
- Self starter, confident to ask questions and challenge the status quo
- ‘Get things done’ attitude
- Ability to grasp, navigate and solve complex business problems
- High ownership, able to work independently and prioritise competing tasks to meet deadlines
- Performance driven
- Agile and able to work in a rapidly evolving work environment and industry
- Proactive, fast learner, upholding our clients Core Values
- Previous experience in FinTech and cryptocurrency
- Previous startup/growth stage company experience
- A financial educational background such as a BA Finance, BA Accounting, MBA or relevant degree
- Implement and produce reports and dashboards:
- Weekly & Monthly Finance reporting dashboards
- Monthly Management Packs
- Monthly cost centre dashboards for Finance Business Partnering
- Reporting performance against budget
- Producing financial metrics and reports for the quarterly board decks
- Monthly investor reports, including financial information and high level metrics
- Budgeting and reforecasting, including overseeing Budget/RFC uploads to Netsuite and LRP
- Support the VP Finance to scrutinise current cost base and build the business’s Target Operating Model and path to profitability
- Financial control for AP spend - ensure costs are properly scrutinised and challenged before approving (e.g. any increases recurring contracted costs to be investigated and challenged)
- Assessing new Business Cases for financial viability (ROI, breakeven, cash flow) before recommending for approval or rejection, and incorporating approved business cases into budgets and reforecasts
- Work with the Business Owners to optimise business plans to maximise financial success whilst ensuring guard rails and controls are in place.
- Finalise the set-up of a centralised repository and database of all live vendor contracts, start/end date, $ TCV, monthly costs etc so our client understands when contracts are up for renewal and terminate at the appropriate time if no longer required.
- Identify live contracts which are not required and need to be cancelled.
- Ensure all contracts/agreements/ELs are captured
- Produce financial reports for investors per their information rights/quarterly requirements
- Periodic reviews into Financial Controls
- Gathering information from different sources by using effective research tools.
- Producing accurate work and deliverables to a high technical standard
- Continuous maintenance and improvement of templates and standard operating procedures
- Any other tasks and projects assigned by the VP Finance