Regional Commercial Finance Controllers at the Nigerian Bottling Company Limited

The Nigerian Bottling Company Limited is one of the biggest companies in the non-alcoholic beverage industry in the country and is the sole franchise bottler of The Coca-Cola Company in Nigeria.

Our company serves approximately 160 million people by producing and distributing a unique portfolio of quality brands, bringing passion to marketplace implementation, and demonstrating leadership in corporate social responsibility.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Regional Commercial Finance Controller

Job Reference:RCFC
Location: Abuja
Department: Finance

Job Details

• The Regional Commercial Finance Controller will report to Finance Business Partner (Commercial) and will be responsible for ensuring adherence to Commercial Policies & Procedure in Demand & Sub Demand Area.
• He/She will also be responsible for North Region Performance and KBI deliveries.The role holder will be based in Abuja.

Key Responsibilities  

• Ensure accurate and timely booking of Revenue, Accrual, Inventory, Account Receivable & Expenses.
• Ensure compliance with Internal Control and audit process.
• Recommend changes in the credit policy to Finance Business Partner Commercial and maintain and uphold the corporate credit policy.
• Supervising the Account Receivable, Claims, Credit Control and Settlement & Billing activities in their regions.
• Ensure SLA on timely and accurate update of requested and approved credit is adhered to.
• Follow up with Commercial Manager on the defaulting dealers for recovery and initiate set up of Credit Representatives Group.
• Review credit limit of outlets periodically to ensure it is in line with purchase capacity and risk assessment of the customer.
• Engage in cross-functional meeting with Commercial and Logistic on DIFOTAI (Delivery in Full ,on time and accurate invoicing)achievement.
• Ensure adherence to cut-off procedures.
• Ensure adherence to Credit Policy.
• Coordinate quarterly provisioning and write-off request. Implementation of dunning procedure and suggestion for changes. Review DSO (Debtor Days of Sales Outstanding) Report and follow up on debt recovery.
• Evaluates customers’ liquidity risk and classify them accordingly to risk categories.
• Advise Management on ageing debts for provision and on bad debt write-off.
• Evaluation and monitoring of customers’ promotion and incentive programmes.
• Monitoring of DME and Commercial budgets for accuracy.
• Ensure settlement and billing activities result in accurate revenue. goods issue update, and update of customers account.
• Cross functional capabilities within the Commercial Finance team to deliver support to all Commercial functions.
• Working with other finance team as well as with teams across company.
• Highlighting the current business results/potential risks.
• Must be able to prepare clear overviews.
• Involvement in Coaching activities
• Be align with the company vision and direction.
• Communication with other departments across company.
• Reviewing current processes and designing new/more efficient ways of utilising current data to provide meaningful reports to Supply chain and to Senior Management Team.
• Participate/lead key initiatives such as productivity and efficiency management.

Requirements
Desired candidate profile:    

• Bachelor Degree or equivalent in Economics, Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, related field or equivalent.
• Minimum of 8 years experience
• Possession of ICAN or ACCA will be an advantage.
• Strong Analytical skills and experience -Power Point, Excel, SAP, University Degree, English, Judgement
• Ability to set & manage deadlines in a dynamic and changing environment.
• Must be able to explain all variances.
• Accounting knowledge.
• Proven Knowledge of SAP and excel systems.
• Indirect costs understanding, responsibilities, timing, logic of accounting.
• Understanding of Investment appraisal and NPV evaluation metrics
• Very good business knowledge, technical skills (PC, SAP), very good knowledge Operation knowledge, accounting knowledge.
• Very good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to develop staff and provide support/training environment within day to day activities
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to challenge others and to drive change.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Highly analytical - ability to conduct detailed financial analysis
• Ability to think outside of the box and challenge processes and rationale.
• Ability to make financial information "user friendly" to non financial end users.

Application Closing Date
24th November, 2016.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: Only candidates who meet the shortlisting criteria will be contacted.