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Financial Controller

ECOM EUROPE
📍 Douala 🇨🇲CDI🗓️ 6 days ago

Job Description

Douala
CDI

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Ready to be part of a global organization shaping the future of sustainable commodity supply chains? Join ECOM as a Financial Controller in Douala, Cameroon. At ECOM, we go beyond commodities, we build efficient, transparent, and sustainable supply chains that create value across the agricultural ecosystem. About the role This role requires an experienced Finance Controller who has the ability to manage robust accounting processes and controls that lead to the delivery of timely and accurate financial reports of all businesses in Douala, Cameroon. The ideal candidate for the role has a strong knowledge of the SAP system. The overall objective of the Financial Controller role is to manage transactional accounting, product control, and management reporting. They will be expected to proactively work to continually improve the efficiency of the accounting function. Primary duties and responsibilities:

  • Produce timely and accurate financial reports.

  • Maintain an efficient system of accounting records.

  • Improve the Company’s controls and budgets designed to mitigate risk.

  • Enhance the accuracy of the company's reported financial results.

  • Ensure that reported results comply with generally accepted accounting principles.

  • Provide regular analysis and manage risk and currency.

  • Lead, manage, coach and mentor a team.

  • Manage process improvements, timely reporting, and the development of appropriate systems to ensure financial transactions, policies and procedures align with the Company’s objectives. Qualifications & Experience

  • An advanced degree in accounting & costing, business, or finance.

  • Minimum of 8 years’ relevant professional experience, ideally in the commodity agriculture, trading, or food & beverage sector.

  • Thorough understanding of business, financial and accounting principles and practices.

  • Excellent Excel skills, strong systems aptitude, and a data-driven approach to problem-solving.

  • Knowledge of ERP, specifically a smaller platform such as Sage Evolution.

  • Experience managing, coaching and mentoring a team.

  • High sense of integrity.

  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build trust and relationships with employees and business managers.

  • Strong analytical and presentation skills.

  • Ability to work in an entrepreneurial, multicultural, multidisciplinary team and deliver high-quality work within deadlines.

  • Self-starter with attention to detail and the ability to manage and prioritize workload independently.

  • Knowledge of OHADA accounting law.

  • Fluency in English and French. Department Finance Location Douala, Cameroon <div class="

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