Boart Longyear (a global leading provider of mineral exploration drilling services and products ) seeks to employ an experienced Financial Controller with a strong tax and statutory accounting background to support the business in
preparing monthly management accounts, statutory financial statements, tax reporting, tax compliance and returns for six French West Africa (FWA) entities. The jobholder will supervise the FWA accounting teams and assist with adhoc tasks as deemed appropriate by the FC, Africa.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
 Responsible for managing the delivery of a first class service financial and management accounting function in FWA
 Preparing and submitting the monthly reporting packs, incl. analysing material movements to Corporate offices
 Liaise with tax advisors for advice, payments and filing of statutory returns
 Play key role in the company to achieve set goals through financial reporting, audit, tax, advisory and risk assessment
 Mitigate tax risks by providing advice on tax related issues, implement internal audit controls to prevent or detect weaknesses and ensure continuous process improvements
 Preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual statements and reports for statutory audit purposes
 Understand and apply latest accounting rules and regulations and determine the impact of changes to the business
 Champion established policies and procedures for financial controls and reporting
 Oversee the preparation, analyzing and reconciling of all bank accounts and petty cash expenses and weekly cash forecasts
 Liaise closely with the Shared Service Centre (SSC) to ensure that all accounting transactions are properly booked
 Ensure timely and accurate payment of payroll salaries to staff and taxes to statutory bodies
 Review and signoff the balance sheet reconciliation process to ensure all accounts are duly reconciled with commentary
Position Qualifications
 Master’s degree in Accounting, Taxation or in a related field
 Professional certification or membership in Accounting or Taxation (ACCA, CIMA, CTA)
 5 years post qualification experience
 Experience of working in a multinational/cultural organization
 Broad Accounting experience in industry preferably in mining/exploration/resource sector
 Microsoft Office-Hyperion- Oracle
 Must be fluent in written and spoken English and French
Mode of Application
Eligible applicants who meet above requirements should apply online via the website www.boartlongyear.com/company/careers before September 1st, 2014
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for an interview.