Financial Controller at the Place (Smackers Limited)

The Place is a fast growing, world class, and dynamic, multi-billion Nigerian conglomerates, established and managed by a team of professionals with decades of management consulting and accounting experience/ training from Arthur Andersen (now KPMG in Nigeria). We are a profitable player in the QSR sector of the Hospitality industry in Nigeria with great prospects and staff strength of over 1000 employees. Currently, our operations span across 17 locations in Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria, with rapid expansion plans to penetrate more locations in the short to medium term.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Financial Controller

Location: Lekki Phase 1, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• We require a transformative accountant to join our team to improve our cost reduction, revenue assurance, general controls, financial reporting and overall profit improvement drive.
• The ideal candidate should be able to review financial processes, work with the CEO to identify, document and implement improvement, incorporating better use of technology, and better staffing and organization structures.

Responsibilities
Key transformation areas include but not limited to:

• Improving robust arrangements for always ensuring up to date identification of most direct competitive sources for purchasing main goods and services; and ensuring competitive bidding for all key purchases
• Production controls and accounting
• Revenue assurance
• Instituting good controls in other cost areas such as fuel and energy costs, transportation costs etc
• Efficient and effective inventory and inventory levels management
• Fixed assets management/ control
• Staffing efficiency
• Review of monthly financial reports to identify issues and improvement opportunities

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2:1 first degree or minimum of upper credit HND from renowned tertiary institution is desirable.
• Three (3) years of experience in overseeing the finances of a similar company that has fully integrated computerized accounting system; multiple business locations; multiple inventory locations and multiple production accounting locations.
• We prefer someone with experience working at a senior-level capacity within the audit team (specialized with consumer markets: manufacturing, distribution and retail clients) at a major audit firm like EY, Deloitte, BDO, PKF, Grant Thornton, Crowe Darionne, SIAO.

Benefit
Our remuneration is very attractive and includes our profit-sharing scheme.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.