General Financial Manager - Accra

We are recruiting for our client specialized in production and processing of natural raw materials used in cosmetic and food industries, a General Financiel Manager in Accra (Ghana) responsible of supervising and improving all elements of the financial management, accounting, closing, and reconciliation processes.
Responsabilities :
• Compile all information needed to build a regular and concise reporting framework that highlights key financial and operational performance metrics, including sales and profitability by customer and channel, trade spend performance, and other KPIs.
• Work with the Finance Department team and the Internal Auditor to prepare a monthly financial reporting package with clear analysis of performance against budget and prior year.
• Prepare and submit all quarterly reports.
• Be involved in the annual budgeting process – work with all functional leaders and the top management to complete a realistic and achievable budget, for approval by the board of directors.
• Develop and implement a regular financial forecast process to update the financial outlook throughout the year.
• Manage closely cash flow to ensure availability of production funds.
• Support the Managing Director and executive team on key financial decisions.
• Support monthly financial processes, reporting and analysis to ensure transactions are properly recorded on the financial statements.
• Implement, document, and maintain accounting policies and procedures.
• Drive optimization of cost improvements by providing ad-hoc analysis/support.
• Develop metrics to use in performing root cause analysis of variances from standard costs.
• Provide financial oversight of physical inventory reconciliations and cycle counts.
• Partner with Production and Supply chain to develop accurate costs for each product.
• Control and monitor costs at every level to enhance company’s performance
• Implementing and improving analysis of standard costs including labor and overhead absorption.
• Supervise the safeguard the company’s assets and establish and maintain corporate accounting policies, procedures and internal controls to ensure conformance with International GAAP and
other laws/regulations of Ghana.
• Ensure accounting systems and processes are continually streamlined via process improvement to achieve greater efficiencies and accuracy in the level and timeliness of reporting (continuous
improvement).
• Work with other members of finance team and the executive team to prepare board and investormaterials.
• Support external auditor requests.
• Secure donor funding and grants with follow up of related reporting.