Financial Controller

Job description / Role

Management reporting
• Develop management dashboard slides and provide qualitative commentaries by understanding the numbers and the business impacts behind the numbers.
• This should be done by having a discussion with the other functional controllers and key stakeholders.
• Look for improvements in management reporting to provide qualitative decision support data
• Should always strive to be accurate and on time.
• Consolidate the monthly NELT commentaries from countries and ensure high accuracy and quality.

Forecasting process
• Owns the forecasting process completely.
• TM1 inputs will be done by the sales controller, but ensuring overall accuracy and timeliness will be the responsibility of the financial controller.
• Look for improvements in the forecasting process, in coordination with the commercial controllers.

Internal Controls
• Review and audit of the PTP and OTC RCMs with other functions, in every affiliate, every quarter
• Within PTP, expense claims and approvals to be sample checked every month.
• Conduct a review of the controlling processes like the TTC tracking, MB tracking, MB cost allocation checks, Pricing, etc with the other functional controllers in every affiliate. To be done quarterly.
• Prepare a short update for the management to provide the status of the health check in all affiliates for all the above areas every quarter.
• Track all policies and processes with a tracking document and ensure that new ones are put in place as and when required.

Statutory year end audit
• Main contact for all external audit processes and requirements.
• Will discuss the timing, agenda and scope with the auditors.
• Will oversee all audit queries and ensure that all queries are fulfilled on time.
• The query clarifications will be provided by the respective functional controllers, but the financial controller oversees this process.
• Will ensure that the audit firm is efficient in conducting the audit to ensure completion of the audit on time.

External financial consulting
• Will be the main contact for all external consulting topics once aligned with the FD.
• Any consulting to be done with audit firms such as EY/PWC/Deloitte on the topics of upcoming VAT, IFRS compliance, new affiliate set up topics in KSA and Iran, existing issues that needs advice, etc to be handled independently, with a brief update to FD and then to management.

Compliance management
• Track all mandatory compliance trainings
• Complete compliance reporting on time for Compliance HQ.
• Main contact point for all queries on compliance. Collate and provide update to FD.

General Expense management
• Budgeting and tracking of General Expenses
• Finding efficiencies in GE spends and ensuring budget controls and tracking in place in all affiliates.

Requirements

Key areas of qualification and expertise required for this role –
• Qualified Accountant (ACCA, CIMA, CPA)
• Experienced in FMCG controlling roles
• Experience in internal audit would be a distinct advantage
• Knowledge of SAP – mandatory

About the Company

Every day, our global brand icons, such as NIVEA, Eucerin and Hansaplast, make more than 500 million consumers in over 70 countries feel good in their skin. Care for consumers and our people worldwide is what has driven us all the time. More than 130 years ago, we invented modern skin care, kept continuously innovating it and still have a clear business focus on it. This is what has made us today's No.1 skin care company in the world. Across the Middle East and North Africa, our brands hold many no. 1 market positions. We strive to reinforce these positions by growing in strategically selected markets and convincing our customers by continuously providing the latest product innovations. In this regard, we continue to count on intensive research, state-of-the-art technologies, perfect marketing strategies and above all our competent and dedicated employees.

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