Financial
Controller – East Africa
The position
Key responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to:
The position
Key responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to:
- Corporate
compliance and risk management;
- Contribute
towards the development and effective implementation of all local
financial policies;
- Provide
financial process best practices guidance and leadership;
- Optimal
and timeous management of all financial processes and transactions with
on-going compliance to national and international best practices;
- Completion
of all financial reporting (group, statutory, and tax ) correctly within
stipulated deadlines;
- Ensure
financial records, and processes are in place for audits;
- Ensure
smooth running of Finance related process in support of all internal
customers (including representative offices);
- Establish
relationships with all Roche stakeholders in support of Roche business
processes success;
- Regional
travel vital for Financial processes support within the Sub-Sahara
Management Centre.
The successful candidate should be in possession of:
- Professional
Accounting qualification or equivalent Bachelors Degree. An MBA would be
advantageous
- 4
to 6 years work experience within finance.
- SAP
knowledge.
- International
experience or experience within a multinational organisation in the
pharmaceutical or FMCG industry.
The following special skill are key to this role:
- Proven
skills in strategic thinking.
- Good
interpersonal skills and self motivated with a demonstration of
initiative.
- Excellent
planning and organisational skills.
- Ability
to work independently as well as in a team within and beyond the finance
team when needed.
- Computer
literacy in MS Excel, Word, Powerpoint.
- The
successful candidate must be fluent in English.
You’re someone who wants to influence your own development.
You’re looking for a company where you have the opportunity to pursue your interests across functions and geographies, and where a job title is not considered the final definition of who you
are, but the starting point.
The next step is yours.
To apply forward your detailed CV for the attention of:
Simplicity Paneng, on simplicity.paneng@roche.com, by 25 January 2012.
Late applications will not be considered.
If you have not heard from us in two weeks after the closing date, kindly consider your application as unsuccessful.
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