Manager - Finance Controller/Finance & Accounts - BFS

Objectives of this role:

- Provide comprehensive financial updates to senior managers by evaluating, analysing, and reporting appropriate data points

- Guide financial decisions by applying company policies and procedures to current economic landscape

- Develop, implement, and maintain financial controls and guidelines

- Achieve budgeting goals with proper scheduling, analysis, and corrective actions

- Maximize payroll efficiency through innovative process development

- Help develop and support short- and long-term operational strategies

Responsibilities:

- Maintain internal safeguards for revenue receipts, costs, and team and organizational budgets and actual expenditures

- Establish (in coordination with CFO) financial and operating benchmarks, budgets, program monitoring, and reporting standards on biweekly, monthly, and annual basis

- Implement consistent accounting policies, practices, and procedures across all programs, adhering to national and local legal standards while remaining knowledgeable of proposed legislation

- Develop and enforce internal controls to maximize protection of company assets, policies, procedures, and workflows

- Oversee and support accounting team with dynamic leadership that creates an environment of trust and productivity

Required skills and qualifications:

- Six or more years of professional accounting experience

- Strong understanding of banking processes and financial data analysis

- Working knowledge of national and local tax regulations and compliance reporting

- Experience in managing payroll, with focus on streamlining accounting processes

- Exemplary history of financial project management

Preferred skills and qualifications:

- Degree (or equivalent) in Finance, accounting, or related field

- Five or more years of experience as an accounting or finance manager

- Professional certification, such as CPA (certified public accountant) or CA (chartered accountant)