Finance controller

LOCATION: Kiev

COMPANY BACKGROUND

Established in 1783, the company is an employee-owned agricultural commodities merchant with 7,000 people in 60 countries and annual revenue in excess of $10bn.

The company is one of the world's leading traders of agricultural commodities.

This is an exciting opportunity to take on a challenging role which offers a broad spectrum of responsibilities, scope, and commercial activity. A primary objective is the provision of high quality value added financial analysis and insight to support the trading management team.

The role requires a high level of interaction with the trading business units, its related operations, and other departments within the Group. This is a significant "hands on" role requiring flexibility to handle detailed transactional work as well as higher level analysis and review.

We need an individual with a proactive approach to transactional activities, financial reporting and control, continuous improvement and business performance initiatives.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Produce fair value trading P&L including valuations of trading contracts. Explain main P&L drivers.
• Review correctness of new trades entered in the trading system. Check relevance, completeness and accuracy of budgeted trading costs into the accounting system.
• Ensure that trades are correctly and timely processed in the trading/accounting system by operations
• Oversee daily treasury operations and cash flow planning. Review FX hedging and reporting.
• Maintain operational discipline. Make sure policies and internal controls procedures are being followed.
• Management reporting including detailed analysis of gross profit margin and variance analysis on budgeted fair value P&L vs. realized trading profit.
• Prepare key accounts breakdowns, analysis and reconciliations (revenue, debtors, creditors, FX gain/loss, stock, incomplete contracts, etc).
• Support tax planning and administer VAT refunds.
• Prepare tax reconciliations and calculate deferred tax.
• Reconcile management and statutory accounting trial balances (BS and P&L), explain differences.
• Review key aspects of new contracts. Process background checks on new counterparties.
• Set-up, maintain and update counterparty risk limits (Payment, Market Default, Pre-Finance etc.), report on risk exposure.

REQUIREMENTS

• 5-7 years of post-graduate experience relevant to the requirements of this role is essential.
• Big4 background (2-3 years) required.
• Experience within soft commodities and international environment is an advantage.
• Practical experience in management accounting and reporting.
• Professional qualification (CIMA/ACCA/ACA or equivalent) - completed or at final stages.
• University degree in Finance or Accounting.
• Advanced MS Excel skills, experience in ERP/accounting software, strong general IT skills.
• Fluent in English.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

• Enthusiastic, motivated, ambitious and pro-active person.
• Able to adapt to fast paced trading environment.
• Good time management skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Business acumen.
• Critical thinking, solid problem solving and decision making skills.
• High level of analytical and computational skills.

The company is pleased to offer the decent compensation and great opportunities for further professional growth and development