Financial Controller at Wartsila Marine and Power Services Nigeria Limited

Wartsila Marine and Power Services Nigeria Limited is a global leader in smart technologies and complete lifecycle solutions for the marine and energy markets. By emphasising sustainable innovation, total efficiency and data analytics, Wärtsilä maximises the environmental and economic performance of the vessels and power plants of its customers. In 2018, Wärtsilä’s net sales totalled EUR 5.2 billion with approximately 19,000 employees. The company has operations in over 200 locations in more than 80 countries around the world.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Financial Controller

Location: Lagos,
Employment Type: Full-time

Roles and Responsibilities

• Managing, controlling and ensuring the correctness of company level financial position according to legal compliance and Wärtsilä Corporation accounting manual, directives, policies, guidelines and requirements.
•  Preparing and reporting certain quarterly and tax notes in HFM
• Continuous follow-up on local legislation changes and requirements
• Collecting and preparing financial information, reports and analyses to internal and external stakeholders and authorities, e.g. local statutory reporting
• Preparing statutory local adjustments and bridge calculations
• Providing and presenting Financial Review material to the company Board of Directors Meeting
• Co-ordinating external auditing, internal auditing and internal control reporting of the company, as well as remediation of relevant internal controls
• Supporting and participating in development and optimizing of WGBS and ST&CC projects which require financial competence and support, in cooperation with global process owners and other stakeholders
• Supporting and advising the businesses in financial processes related to statutory, tax and company compliance
• High performance culture in accordance with Wärtsilä and WGBS strategy, vision, mission and values
• Responsible for local Sub-Group or/and Tax Group or/and branch reporting (if applicable)
• Approving some limited SAP access rights
• Preparing and maintaining local Delegation of Authority (DoA) documentation
• Managing system authorisations, Power of Attorneys, Letter of Authorities e.g. for local banks
• Approving items according to company Delegation of Authority
• Reporting (mandatory) financial statistics to local authorities
• Tax related compliance in co-operation with Tax CoE (calculations reclaims, risk reporting, litigations, auditing)
• Co-ordinating property related insurance matters and insurance claims together with Group Risk Management and Businesses
• Company secretarial tasks (in some of the companies)
• Member of the Company Management Team (in some of the companies)
• Involvement in possible changes in the company legal structures (mergers, acquisitions, liquidations) Decision rights and accountabilities
• In Accordance with the local group / company level Delegation of Authority
• Decisions for day-to-day performance management Contributing to related process development and investment decisions.

Main forums and stakeholders:

• ST&CC (region) forums with business stakeholders, group control, treasury and WGBS services
• Report and share the overview and feedback of company level financial figures and KPIs to business stakeholders, company management team and company Board of Directors

Qualifications and experience

• Professional qualification - Associate Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA) or Associate Chartered Accountant (FCA) or equivalent- Mandatory
• Bachelor or Master’s level university education or equivalent – Added advantage
• 3-5 years of experience in Finance for the related process / function of   the position.
• Subject matter expertise on financial statutory accounting, company compliance and/or taxation.

Skills and competencies:

• Strong leadership, networking, and communication skills
• Problem solving & service excellence skills
• Subject matter expertise on Financial Statutory Accounting
• Wartsila accounting and IFRS knowledge (both international and local)
• Local accounting & tax laws and principles · Auditing (both external and internal) knowledge
• Internal Control Knowledge
• Analysing skills
• Corporate Governance and Code of Conduct
• Out of the box thinker
• SAP and other relevant reporting tools
• Fluent in English | Working knowledge of French
• Adaptability
• Innovation
• Team working, Relationship building
• Cooperation with different external and internal stakeholders
• Cultural sensitivity.

Application Closing Date
27th March, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online