Financial Operations Manager at Talenture Group

Talenture is the parent company for a select number of multi-brand niche professional staffing solution providers in the Energy, Engineering, Infrastructure, ICT, Financial Services and Telecoms sectors. The services offered by our brands fall into the broad categories of temporary staffing, permanent placement, career transition and talent development, as well as outsourcing and consulting.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Financial Operations Manager

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description
Transaction Processing and Recording:

• Processing of payments to staff and vendors on SAP in line with internal processes and contract terms. This includes:
  • APTID expenses
  • Office expenses
  • CAPEX Payments
  • Statutory payments
  • Intercompany
• Posting of petty cash replenishment and disbursement vouchers
• Reconciling bank accounts to General ledger at mid-month and month end; recording
• Responsible for reconciliation of supplier/customer accounts

Controls/Legal entity:

• Ownership and continuous improvement of petty cash, credit card and business advances/retirement processes.
• Preparation of tax schedules and filing upon approval. Maintain accurate tracker for all statutory payments.
• Day-to-day management of the general ledger and monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
• Preparation of month-end journals (for approval).
• Preparation of schedules for external audit and support to auditors as required

Documentation:

• Ensure that Payment vouchers and treasury documents are properly filed through frequent checks and feedback to the admin staff
• Ensure that all tax receipts are filed both in the cabinet and on SharePoint

Business Partnering:

• Provide IMS analysis to marketing and commercial teams for ad-hoc projects and to support decision making
• Ownership of IMS and SM analysis, review and forecasting meeting (with FMCL). Organizing and preparing insightful analysis to drive business understanding.
• Collaborate with relevant staff within FMCL to prepare and analyze IMS and secondary sales data and performance analysis for inclusion in period report

Financial Reporting, Planning & Analysis:

• Provide Trade reports for Monthly Management Reporting Pack
• Ownership of key business information database - IMS, Van sales, Secondary sales etc.

Treasury:

• Maintain up-to-date FX tracker
• Maintain relationship with bankers and follow up on execution of instructions
• Ensure treasury instructions and operations are in line with FCF

Asset:

• Maintain up-to-date PPE schedule with voucher numbers
• Support the verifying and tagging of assets
• Responsible for the reconciliation of asset schedule to the general ledger
• Ensure relocation of assets are approved, properly documented and reconciled with the register each quarter

Requirements

• Qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA)
• B.Sc / B.Tech / HND.
• Master’s Degree / MBA.
• Minimum of 3 years experience working in multinational Fast Moving Consumer Goods ("FMCG") Company or practice and minimum 3 years’ experience with one of the big 4 accounting firms.
• Ideal person must have line managerial and leadership experience and should have a track record of improving processes, systems, and ways of working.
• Must have experience of working with stakeholders with different cultural backgrounds and managing key business advisors such as bankers, tax consultants and auditors.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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