Financial Controller at Torq Commodities

Torq Commodities is a diversified physical commodities supply chain management enterprise that owns and manages vertically integrated supply chains across the regions of Asia, Africa & Europe. We strive to add value to every interaction across the supply chain through our expertise in procurement, shipping, and logistics and are committed to operating with a focus on honesty, transparency, ethical practices, and the standards of our products to fulfil our commitments on time. Torq Commodities excels in the dynamic discipline of global commodity trading, merging trading knowledge with sustained logistics support.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Financial Controller

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time

Key Responsibilities
Accounting, MIS, Budget:

• Responsible for cost estimation as per procurement plan and preparing the actual costing for each shipment. 
• Daily reports monitoring to ensure all procurement, direct expenses are within budget.
• Ensure all the business accounts of WAF region are accurate and updated - account finalization, review, analysis, provisioning, tax planning and year end compliances.
• MIS reporting as per management requirement related to accounts, procurement, shipments, Customs clearing etc. 
• Introduce and implement necessary formats where required.
• Budget preparation for all the WAF centers and ensuring budget control, variance analysis.
• Govern and report Annual Operating Plan (AOP) on weekly/monthly/quarterly basis.
• Present monthly financial summary, analysis insight in a crisp, meaningful manner through MIS/dashboards to the business with a detailed working.
• Assist in building financial decks & presentations for the purpose of the Board / Investor review.
• Develop & mentor team of able subordinates to enable achieving deliverables.

Banking & Treasury:

• Fund raising from local banks- pre-sanction & post disbursement documentation & compliances.
• Weekly fund flow preparation.   Ensure that adequate fund allocation & flow is available for smooth operations.

Local Compliances:

• Tax planning basis budgets at start of each year, Handling & closing tax dept audits with optimization of Statutory Compliances & local Account finalization.
• Handling local Auditors.

Requirements
Educational Qualifications

• Should possess CA/CPA/ACCA /MBA qualification in Finance from a reputed institute​

Experience and Skill Sets:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience working as a Financial Controller in West Africa (Nigeria & francophone) in commodities or trading business.
• Minimum Total relevant work experience of 15 Years

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: We urge you to carefully read the job description below before applying for this role. This will help us to better evaluate your candidature.​