Job Description

Duties will include

1. Coordinate the preparation of the monthly, quarterly and yearly financial reports and all relevant business information, ensuring the reliability and integrity of these financial reports, fiscal, operational and external.
2. Develop planning and forecasting models, along with sensitivity analysis of the business.
3. Manage budgets, cash projection and maintain relationships with banks and other relevant financial institutions.
4. Lead the evaluation of investment projects, and the necessary resources required for implementation.
5. Manage the company's yearly financial audits by external audit companies, including SOX compliance.
6. Support the company's fiscal strategy, ensuring local tax compliance and meeting local requirements for tax filings. Support processes that minimise the tax impact on earnings and shareholders, with support from external tax consultants.
7. Support the Sales and Operations functions within the Company with adequate financial information streams and initiatives regarding productivity and efficiency improvements.
8. Supporting I.T. projects required to enable users to interact both internally and externally.
9. Managing the IT function and the outsourced IT support.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Ability to analyse and solve problems; assessing implications using a broad perspective, and identify less obvious solutions. Good communication and negotiating skills; ability to agree on a course of action, individually or as a team. Seeking results that serve their mutual interests as a form of alternative resolution to disputes. Strategic planning skills; ability to develop plans and programmes, analysing goals and objectives for the good of the organisation. Highly focused on results. Commitment to quality. Constantly seeking improvements for results. Ability to work impartially. Pro-active and innovative; dynamic and hands on. Ability to identify problems, and taking action to address them. To be a quick thinker and decision maker. Willingness to work towards the achievement of tasks, commitments or obligations assigned by their superiors. Management and knowledge of production processes, marketing, logistics and administration. Updates: Accounting and tax regulations/financial management /foreign trade/auditing/corporate law. Technology: knowledge of management software and ERP.