Description:

Finance Controller

Location: Matola, Mozambique

Function/ BU: Finance

Report to: Senior Vice President

Olam Agri Olam Agri is a market leading, differentiated food, feed and fibre agri-business with a global origination footprint, processing capabilities and deep understanding of market needs built over 35 years. With a strong presence in high-growth emerging markets and products across grains & oilseeds, wheat milling & pasta, rice, edible oils, specialty grains & seeds, animal feed & protein, cotton, wood products, rubber, sugar & bioenergy and risk management solutions, Olam Agri is at the heart of global food and agri-trade flows with 45.1 million MT in volume handled in 2024. Focused on transforming food, feed and fibre for a more sustainable future, it aims at creating value for customers, enable farming communities to prosper sustainably and strive for a food-secure future. Olam Agri Holdings Limited, which holds the Olam Agri business, is a 64.6% owned subsidiary of Olam Group. 35.4% of Olam Agri Holdings is owned by SALIC International Investment Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Olam Agris strategic partner The Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Company.

https://www.olamagri.com/

Olam Agri Wood: We've established ourselves as a market-leader trusted by farmers, stakeholders, governments, industry groups and customers worldwide.

Guided by our purpose to transform food and agriculture for a more food-secure and sustainable future, we collaborate closely with governments, customers, development agencies, and other stakeholders to build resilience and sustainable practices across the supply chain, from farm to plate.

https://www.olamagri.com/products-services/rice

Key Responsibilities:

- Finance is a contemporary and forward-looking function that is driving value by being a world-class partner to our business.

- As a Finance Controller you will partner with the business unit in the country (Business Head, Sales & Functional leads) to ensure P&L transparency & accuracy and to drive the business towards targets & operational KPIs achievement. As successful candidate you will be able to demonstrate ability to link business decisions to financial impacts.

The key attributes would include:

- Controllership: You are a controller that ensures accurate, efficient and timely delivery of relevant reports.

- Performance Officer: You help us to be on track with robust and timely performance tracking. You will ensure budgetary process improvements and achieve better predictability on outcomes.

- Value Manager: You also ensure & support value maximization initiatives (interest, Trade Finance etc.)

- Co-Strategist: You are our strategist, you help in dept value-added decision support through superior data analytics and help us drive special projects to growth. Ensure and support value maximization initiatives (Interest, Trade Finance etc.)

Impact Areas for a Finance Controller:

- Business Financial Insights Your in-depth knowledge on financial/management accounting principles will help us to accurately reflect the business performance.

- Financial & Management Accounting

- Financial Impact on Strategy Execution

Business/ Country Economics & Regulations:

- Controls, Compliance & Assurance Your ability to evaluate risks and determining their impact on the management audit, developing and/or modifying audit procedures as required. You ensure compliances to legal and secretarial requirements as well as functioning within the norms of statutory audit regulations respective to country/ business.

Internal Controls:

- Compliance Measures

Measure & Assurance:

- Reporting & process efficiencies The finance controller demonstrates conceptual ability to ideate and implement robust systems & processes suited to business/ country. You also display accuracy and efficiency in MIS reporting, budgeting.

- Capability Building: Build capability in finance function, growing finance leadership pipeline and ensuring effective knowledge & expertise transfer for effective execution of finance strategies

- Personal Credibility & Thought Leadership

- Building Functional Capability

Job requirements:

Experience:

- Extensive experience (typically 10+ years) in financial control, finance and accounts, business finance, supply chain finance with a proven track record.

Specific experiences/ requirements:

- Plant accounting and finance

- Manufacturing accounting and finance.

Skills and Competencies:

- Good negotiating skills and interpersonal skills.

- Robust attention to detail.

- Strong commercial, problem-solving ability and creative thinking.

- Collaborative and team oriented.

- Business partnering and stakeholder management.

Education:

- Charted accountant with 10+ years of post-qualification work experience.

Life With Us:

Our global network of people inspires and empower each other to create ideas and deliver solutions to grow our business and enable food and agriculture to make a positive impact to climate, nature, and livelihoods.

Note: Please note that this job description aims to provide key information for a comprehensive understanding of the position. It is not an exhaustive list of the skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities, or working conditions associated with the role. The employer reserves the right to make amendments to this job description at any time at its sole discretion.

Olam is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, nationality, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.