Director, North West Africa Controller Lead at Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company

Coca-Cola HBC (Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company) is a bottling partner of The Coca-Cola Company. Coca-Cola HBC is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland and has a premium listing on the London Stock Exchange and secondary listing on the Athens Exchange. The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company and operates in more than 200 countries.

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We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Director, North West Africa Controller Lead

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time

Job Summary

• We are hiring a Director Controller for North West Africa.
• This role serves as a multi-country Controller for the North West Africa Franchise Units (FU), primarily responsible for the end-to-end accounting, tax compliance and reporting of US and statutory financial statements for 12 legal entities including ‘sign off’ (certification, validation) of the related full set of financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, and equity statements).
• This is a People Leader Role.

Key Responsibilities & Tasks

• Leading, engaging and developing a team of 10 direct reports, including contractors.
• Partnering with the Africa Operating Unit (OU) Finance VP and FUs Finance LT to ensure the relevant business support is provided by Finance Hub Controllership.
• Managing routines regarding the identification and mitigation of strategic tax and business risks.
• Establishing processes to ensure sustainable compliance with local tax and country regulations.
• Proactively managing accounting processes and routines across the countries to ensure compliance with US GAAP, IFRS and/or other local accounting regulations as well as Company accounting policies.
• Serve as lead point for internal audit (CAD) teams when reviewing, testing internal controls and working with external audit partner in local GAAP annual audits across function and geographical spread.
• Support the business and corporate tax for new operating models.
• Support global projects within function.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degree in Accounting, Finance or any related field
• 10 to 15 years of experience in the Coca-Cola system or equivalent multinational environment
• Fluent in English (verbal and writing)
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP, IFRS/Local GAAP, Tax Planning and Compliance
• Solid experience with internal and external audit processes
• Understanding of SAP and/or equivalent RTR financial tools and systems
• Relevant involvement in significant change projects and initiatives
• Virtual management across cultures and time zones.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.