Manager - Finance - Export Segment - Agri/Foods - CA

Job Title: Finance Manager

Product/Business Unit: Export segment (Edible Nuts and Cotton)

Location: Nampula, Mozambique

Overview:

- Olam has been operating in Mozambique for more than 20 years with some of the best in class processing facilities. We have presence across the country with Edible Oil and Rice as key products in local distribution side and Cashew, Sesame and Cotton on the export side. Olam is one of the top 3 player in the industry.

- On export side, Olam has 4 ginning operations, 2 cashew and sesame processing facilities based out of central and northern region.

- Agriculture being backbone of Mozambican economy, contributing 23% of total GDP growth, Olam is strategically placed for a robust growth in this key sector. Recently we had fresh capital investments to make our operations more cost efficient with automation and latest technological upgradation.

Key Performance Matrices include:

- Actively participate in the preparation of the annual budgets, comparison of actual performance against the budget, identifying and analyzing variance devise and monitor the implementation of necessary actions

- Driving Business performance through analytics on Portfolio management / Category Development Reporting of Financials

- Responsible for transfer pricing etc. developing accounting & financial policies, systems controls for new & existing businesses

- Financial reporting - Timely MIS and Financials as per CC date lines and ensuring compliance of statutory date lines

- Legal, Regulatory & Statutory Compliance - ensure compliance with statutory authority and audit requirements

- Smooth operation of the MIS and computerized accounting system and take necessary actions for systems upgrading to cope with the changing requirements.

- Development and setting in place of an effective management accounting function within the organization, in order to provide leadership to organizational improvement initiatives.

- Identify and assess the relevant techniques to be adopted, and supervise and guide the management accounting towards implementation.

- Efficient management of the treasury function including projection of future cash flows, arranging adequate funds to meet day to day requirements and ensure that the disbursements are within the approved operational cash flows. This includes liaising with banks, monitoring of daily cash balances and submission of cash flow statements.

- To initiate, review, assess and implement programs to continuously improve the productivity of all processes and systems within the organization and to advise and guide the operational managers in carrying out work flow analysis and other techniques for systems improvement and cost management.

Requirements:

- Charted accountant with experience of 5-7 years

- Key strengths would be team management, problem solving, decision making and value orientation