Project Financial Controller at Human Capital Partners (HCP)

Human Capital Partners (HCP) is a professional services firm specialising in the provision of HR consulting services covering the entire spectrum of the Human Resources value chain. HCP is the successor firm of the erstwhile Executive Selection and Training Services group of KPMG in Nigeria.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Project Financial Controller

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• The role of a Project Financial Controller is to ensure the financial integrity and accountability of projects throughout their lifecycle.
• This position focuses on budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting, providing essential insights to project managers and stakeholders for effective decision-making.
• The Project Financial Controller is responsible for monitoring project expenditures, analyzing variances, and ensuring compliance with financial policies and procedures.
• By maintaining accurate financial records and conducting regular assessments, they identify potential financial risks and opportunities, enabling proactive management. The role reports to the PCD CEWA

Responsibilities

• The role handles/influences all Capex proposals of the Firm related to Factory Investment, Material Vendor, IIMs, Real Estate etc.
• Business partnering with Global Supply Chain Controlling (Capex & Manufacturing), Global Engineering, Regional SC VPs, Supply Chain Project Leader, Project Leader, Strategic Capacity, Strategic Network Management and Procurement related to all investment proposals.
• Preparation of Business case, derive return on investment, scenario planning, stakeholder alignment and prepare long term capex planning for the factory. Extend business case preparation for the Region beyond Factory controlling.
• Engage into healthy and constructive challenge with Project owner to ensure investment proposals are meeting financial expectations, transparency of its impact on SOI.
• Budget vs Actual management of capex and OpEx spending. Ensure ground level controls in fund management.
• Maintenance of Internal Order in SAP, for Budget vs actual, commitment tracking.
• Manage the key inputs for all planning, forecasting and actuals process impacting the manufacturing EBIT along with Manufacturing controllers.
• Understand and create the requirement and be the Co-lead process digitalization which strengthens budget and project management.
• Strongly collaborate with DC to build knowledge, community to ensure strong management of projects steering from controlling perspective.
• This role gives you the opportunity to work and make an impact on areas of our Capex footprint, supply network design and allocations and product costs.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or Accounting or similar with a masters being an added advantage.
• Several years’ working experience as a Project Controller and team manager in HQ/PC/DC in or in a similar position with experience in Factory operations is must with hands on approach, experience in supply chain finance will be helpful, in depth know how of Manufacturing process, and Controlling tools/ process is desired.
• High strategic, conceptual and analytical competence with strong numerical reasoning and mental agility and at the same time focus on operational excellence.
• Strong personality with excellent business partnering, collaboration, storytelling, communication and influencing skills, Constructive and pragmatic attitude, enjoy interdisciplinary collaboration, international mindset and ability to work in a matrixed organization structure and multiple stakeholders.
• Highly self-motivated and proactive with strong organizational skills and bias for action
• Strong learning agility is needed to shape new and emerging topics, manage the risk and uncertainty.
• Ability to drive Digital agenda for current and emerging topics with strong IT skills around SAP, PowerPoint and Power bi.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English are mandatory,

Application Closing Date
25th November, 2024.