02 Management Controllers

Description

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Societe Generale Central and East Africa is looking for two (02) Management Controllers for its Regional Finance Department

Missions / Responsibilities / Activities

Under the responsibility of the Financial Steering Manager, your mission will be to:

• Ensure the production and analysis at Entity level of management statements and reports;
• Ensure the consolidation and analysis at the Regional level of management statements and reports;
• Anticipate changes through estimates and projections;
• Exercise financial supervision over a perimeter of Entities in the Region;
• Coordinate, monitor and aggregate the budgetary procedure and re-estimates at the Regional level;
• Contribute to the implementation of tools for monitoring the activity of the Regional Directorate;
• Ensure business monitoring of Management Control projects and support for change.

The senior management controller is responsible for:
Transversal

• Relay and explain to the Management Controllers in Entities the calculation methodologies, indicators, standard support models applicable;
• Ensure the quality and consistency of the management systems and data reported;
• Ensure the production of summaries, reports and commented dashboards;
• Exercise an alert role within the Region, in conjunction with the Management Controllers of the Entities;
• Support the Entities and monitor the implementation of arbitrations and action plans;
• Carry out financial studies, business cases, benchmarks, etc. at regional level.

Operations

• Ensure the consistency of method at the Regional level of the accounting closing options in Entities;
• Ensure regional monitoring of activity and financial profitability;
• Coordinate the preparation of the budget, in conjunction with the Management Controllers of the Entities;
• Consolidate the Region’s multi-year forecasts (5-year capital planning);
• Check the application of Group rules and examine requests for exemption, if necessary;
• Produce financial summaries for the identified actors;
• Ensure consistency with the Entities’ management reports.

Eve

• Contribute to the dissemination and understanding of the standards and rules applicable within the Region;
• Ensure complementarity, the combination of Group and local standards.

Control

•  Control the quality of forecasts (back testing of actuals and projections) for the Region, including for the Entities placed under its supervision;
• Carry out 1st level checks (permanent monitoring);
• Contribute to the definition of controls and the review of business procedures, standardized for the entire Region.

ANIMATION

• Contribute to the animation of the steering function from the Region by involving the Entity Management Controllers;
• Contribute to raising awareness and supporting the financial departments of the Entities on the issues identified

Projects and Developments

• Contribute to developing and improving financial management activities;
• Investigate proposals, exchanges within the ‘Financial Steering Community’, with a view to instructing the final decision-making by the Regional Financial Steering Manager;
• Drive and monitor the deployment of projects to simplify and standardize Finance processes and tools at the Regional level and at the Entity level.

Skills / Requirements / Qualities

Business skills :

• Mastery of management control tools;
• Mastery of financial reporting production methods;
• Writing, analysis and synthesis skills: be able to give the hierarchies the support and the necessary visibility on the activities in progress;
• Master office tools and business applications;
• Professional level of English

Behavioral skills

• Intellectual rigor, sense of autonomy and organization;
• Ability to adapt in multicultural environments;
• Tenacity and results orientation;
• Reliability and quality orientation;
• Organization and planning;
• Proactivity;
• Initiative and entrepreneurial sense;
• Sense of risk

Candidate profile:

• Bac+4/5 (Master, DESS, Engineer, etc.) in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Banking, management control or equivalent;
• Professional experience of approximately 3 to 5 years in a similar function;
• Experience in a banking and/or international environment would be a plus.

Candidate profile

» Level of experience: Experienced
» Years of experience: Between 3 and 5 years
» Minimum Academic Level: Master

 NB: Only Successful Applications Will Be Contacted Later.

Deadline for receipt of applications: Monday June 06, 2022 at 5 p.m. GMT.