GROUP FINANCE CONTROLLER DIRECTOR

Position Overview

The Group Finance Controller Director reports directly to the Group CFO and provides strategic financial leadership across the organization. This senior role oversees the financial control framework while leading specialized Finance Business Partners to support key business functions. The position requires exceptional financial acumen, leadership abilities, and business partnership skills.

Key Responsibilities

1. Financial Controlling Leadership and Strategy

• Develop and implement robust financial control frameworks across all entities and subsidiaries

• Lead AOP, month-end and year-end close processes ensuring accuracy and compliance

• Oversee consolidated financial reporting and analysis for executive decision-making

• Drive standardization and lead continuous improvement initiatives of financial policies, procedures, and systems across the group

• Implement standardized margin analysis and monitoring between subsidiaries and group

• Analyze profitability variances between subsidiaries and drive performance improvements.

• Monitor and optimize inter-company transactions and transfer pricing mechanisms to optimize overall group profitability

• Lead initiatives to identify and eliminate profit leakages across the value chain

• Ensure regulatory compliance and maintain strong internal controls

• Manage relationships with external auditors and financial institutions

2. Finance Controlling by key functions:

FBP Agro Function

• Oversee financial controls for Agro sourcing operations, pricing and costs across all subsidiaries

• Support subsidiaries in implementing best practices for Agro financial management

• Monitor margins and profitability across Agro operations in different subsidiaries

• Mentor finance staff in analyzing Agro input costs and productivity metrics

FBP Production Function

• Supervise production costs and margins across subsidiaries and identify optimization opportunities

• Continuously develop FBP capabilities in production costing, utilization and variance analysis and support in deployment to other strategic regions

• Support subsidiaries with specialized production financial expertise as needed

FBP Supply Chain Function

• Lead financial controlling for S&OP, procurement, logistics, and inventory management

• Coach FBP teams on working capital optimization across the supply chain

• Develop team capabilities in financial analysis for make-vs-buy decisions

• Analyze margin impacts of supply chain decisions across subsidiaries

• Support subsidiaries in optimizing inter-company supply chain costs

• Mentor finance staff in supply chain cost and efficiency analysis

FBP Commercial Function

• Oversee financial controlling for sales, marketing, and commercial operations

• Coach teams on financial aspects of market trends, pricing strategies, investment, commercial/ customer/ product performance analysis;

• Monitor customer and product margins across different subsidiaries and markets

• Support subsidiaries in market-specific financial challenges and opportunities

• Mentor finance staff in commercial performance analysis and

FBP other support functions (R&D, HR, IT, Legal, Risk management)

• Partner with other functional leaders for budget management and initiatives for optimizing costs and resource allocation.

• Provide decision support through scenario analysis and business case development

• Support contract reviews by providing financial risk assessment

• Partner with legal teams to ensure financial compliance across all jurisdictions

• Develop financial risk assessment frameworks and support risk mitigation planning with cost-benefit analysis

IPO Readiness

• Lead pre-IPO financial assessment and remediation of identified gaps

• Develop investor-focused financial metrics, KPIs, and narrative for roadshow presentations

• Establish governance infrastructure including disclosure committees and reporting protocols

3. Team Leadership and Development

• Build and lead a high-performing finance team across all business functions and subsidiaries

• Conduct regular performance reviews and career development discussions

• Facilitate knowledge sharing and best practice exchange across subsidiary finance teams

• Provide targeted support to subsidiary finance teams and deploy specialized finance resources to subsidiaries requiring additional expertise

• Promote cross-functional and cross-subsidiary collaboration; proactively supports subsidiaries' needs

• 12+ years of progressive finance experience with at least 5 years in senior finance leadership 

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business, or related field; MBA or professional certifications (e.g., ACCA, APA, CMA) required.  

• Demonstrated expertise in financial controlling across multiple business functions 

• Strong leadership experience managing diverse finance teams 

• Experience in multinational organizations with complex organizational structures 

• Advanced knowledge of financial systems and technologies 

• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

• Qualification: Bachelor
• Age: Unlimited
• Job type: Permanent