Job Description
Full job description
Lafarge Africa Plc is a member of the LafargeHolcim Group – the biggest building and concrete solutions company in the world. It is a publicly quoted company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and serves Nigeria with a wide range of building and construction solutions designed to meet housing and construction needs from small projects like individual home buildings to major construction and infrastructure projects.
About the Job
- To aid managerial planning and commercial decision-making by providing appropriate, accurate, and timely analysis and reporting for the business segments.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Ensure timely delivery of Month End Closing (MEC) activities, MTP and Budgeting
- Produce monthly management accounts for the business segment
- Carry out Internal Audits for testing and reinforcing controls
- Work with the rest of the team to ensure budgets are understood and adhered to
- Capex Business Case Preparation for the segment
- Liaise with auditors (Internal/Group/External) on Compliance and Controls requirements
- Generate annual and monthly budgets for the business segments
- Ad hoc analysis and partnering that may be required from time to time.
Learning and Development:
- Ensure minimum competency level as required
- Ensure that the Finance (Controlling) unit is fully aligned with the evolution of the business
- Develop and agree Training & Development plan.
Requirements
What we are looking for
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting
- Minimum of 3 years of professional experience
- Professional qualification of a recognized accounting body
- Strong analytical skills
- Good communication skills
- Knowledge of people management
- Excellent IT skills (Proficiency with SAP, MS Excel and other MS Office tools)
- Strong commercial skills.
Behavioral Competencies:
- Result oriented
- A balanced person with good interpersonal and communication skills
- Achievement oriented
- Analytical thinking
- Strong integrity
- Teamwork
- Customer service oriented
- Ability to prioritize and independently manage multiple deadlines.
Managerial Competencies:
- Innovative
- Results-oriented
- High integrity
- Ability to persuade and convince
- Effective time management skills.