Financial Reporting Specialist at International Breweries Plc

International Breweries Plc - Our Dream is to bring people together for a better world. Beer, the original social network, has been bringing people together for thousands of years. We are committed to building great brands that stand the test of time and to brewing the best beers using the finest natural ingredients.

Our diverse portfolio of well over 400 beer brands includes global brands Budweiser, Corona and Stella Artois; multi-country brands Beck’s, Castle, Castle Lite, Hoegaarden, and Leffe; and local champions such as Aguila, Bud Light, Jupiler, Klinskoye, Modelo Especial, Quilmes, Skol, and Victoria.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Financial Reporting Specialist

Job Requisition ID: 30090565
Location: Ilesa, Osun
Job Type: Full-time

Summary

• The key purpose of this role is to perform activities related to journal processing, reconciliations, process improvement, management of SAP open items and general accounting administration.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Supervision of monthly and annual General Accounting activities. This includes monthly and annual close-the-books activities including annual statutory audit process.
• Preparation and review of journals of finance team, ensuring that journals are accurately and timeously uploaded and processed in system.
• Preparation and review of monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations. Review all Balance sheet GL’s to ensure recons align to underlying schedules
• Assist in preparation of monthly and quarterly financials statements. Assist with queries from Zone and Global teams
• Administer and timeously clear all open items in SAP to ensure a healthy ageing status.
• Manage GL Chart of Accounts
• Adherence to General Ledger closure deadlines in accordance to management requirements.
• Assist the team to meet weekly and monthly R2R targets and all relevant SLA’s and KPI's.
• Present and implement corrective action and preventive action for recurring process related issues. Perform Root Cause analysis for recurring or high severity issues resulting in issue reduction.  Identify automation opportunities to improve the way we operate and work closely with technology to leverage system functionalities to improve the process.
• Maintenance of role training documentation. Assisting in knowledge transfer to new employees within the role.
• Adhere to internal control protocols and provide information as required to internal and external audit.
• Share information as it relates to business requirements.
• Help the team and Team Lead in identifying process improvements, excellence and process efficiency opportunities.
• Present to the Team Lead key challenges, insights and workarounds.
• Trouble shoot issues and share improvement ideas with Team Lead.
• Present to the Team Lead key challenges, insights and workarounds.
• Trouble shoot issues and share improvement ideas with Team Lead.

Minimum Requirements

• Accounting background and experience
• 3 - 5 years prior related position experience required.
• Computer skills (MS Office, Financial systems. MxP).
• SAP experience.

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Strong Controls and Process improvement mindset
• Strong process knowledge and understand general finance terms.
• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively.
• Ability to build productive working relationships – internally and externally.
• Strong interpersonal/business skills and time management skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Excellent stakeholder management and ability to generate team cooperation.
• Analytical approach / good problem-solving skills.
• Capable of being entrusted with “confidential” information.
• Ability to be flexible with position duties and scope of work.

Additional Information:

• Band: VII

Application Closing Date
25th November, 2025.

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