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Role purpose
- Provide accurate financial analysis and ensure that accurate, reliable, and detailed records of costing are maintained.
- Ensure strict internal control & compliance at all the sites.
- Collaborate with Product Supply Finance team members to better deliver on our key KPIs and goals.
- Continue to build safety culture.
Key responsibilities and tasks
- Ensures financial information for our grower clients is timely and accurately prepared
- Processes and prepares accurate operational financial information for grower clients within predetermined deadlines
- Management of Grower Accounting including handling of all A/P communications with vendors/Growers.
- Register all new contracts in SAP, process order creation, Purchase order and batch creation
- Monitoring of signed contracts and legal documents and upload on share point: These are Contract, addendums, Vat authorization and Red flag assessments
- Invoicing of License fee: Comparing parental documents received from WH with SAP transactions.
- Collecting GPS Ha’s from field managers add on PO and capturing invoices
- Responsible for Payments for Corn business, all contractors linked to process order, trial production payments,
- Growers seed delivery tracking and confirmations in SAP before payments are made
- Reviews Grower Raw Seed receipts within the month and ensure that all are recorded in SAP
- Grower Payment tracking and Cashflow forecasting,
- Responsible for Grower accruals, Age analysis and new grower application for Tanzania
- Oversee and contribute to the preparation of all inventories related information for financial statements (P&Ls, Balance Sheets, Statement of Cash Flows, ROI) and all other reports required by management
Support Plant Controller on daily, monthly costing activities & analysis
- Share recommendations to seize opportunities or overcome challenges
- Interact and support key business decisions
- Discuss, prepare & execute succession planning and individual development plans
Key Working Relations:
- All East and West Africa PS functions, Site Managers, Supply chain, planning and quality
- Finance and Controlling
- Procurement and Safety
Experience, Skills and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related business field
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA-K) or ACCA is an added advantage
- 5 years of experience
- Experience in the agriculture, manufacturing or seed industry is an added advantage
- Experience in cost accounting
- Experience in Inventory management
- Working experience of SAP is a plus
Bayer welcomes applications from all individuals, regardless of race, national origin, gender, age, physical characteristics, social origin, disability, union membership, religion, family status and pregnancy. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and avoiding discrimination.
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