Finance Systems Controller

We are looking to strengthen our Finance department with someone who either has experience and/or is willing to learn all aspects of the coffee business and its impact on the finance department activities.

The successful candidate will have their core competencies in accounting, month-end closings, reporting and controlling. Be able to read accounting journals and reports, understand what they are saying to convey in layman’s terms to non-accounting people.

In addition you will have a strong desire to work on process and systems’ efficiencies in terms of new system and tools design, testing and implementations.

Sucafina is undergoing a significant systems and process upgrade worldwide involving all types of businesses in the coffee commodity environment. We require someone to assist in this journey who has a strong appetite for accounting and its close partnership with IT tools working for finance.

The successful candidate must be comfortable and efficient in multitasking, prioritising and all the while ensure that commitments are delivered on time and to a high quality.

You must be able to build trusted bonds within the Finance department but also equally importantly with various stakeholders such as senior management, department heads, IT, external partners and end users of the tools and reports you will help design and implement, globally.

Tasks/Responsibilities:

SAP Target Operating Model (TOM) deployment in all Sucafina locations (15 locations)

• Prework of assessing entity’s Trial Balance and Open items; Cleaning up and bringing into the company global policy all aspects of the Balance Sheet.
• Prework of gathering all Master Data utilised by Sucafina entity and preparing within the SAP global TOM framework; including Profit Centres, Cost Centres, Business Partner, Bank Details, etc.
• Mapping existing Chart of Accounts (COA) used to the new SAP TOM COA
• Mapping SAP TOM COA Local company setup to the Local country’s alternative accounts
• Work with IT team to set up the company in SAP R4 and test all modules to be utilised by local entity. Feedback and Testing until all correct and working to the Global framework of policies and procedures.
• Work with IT and local Finance team to connect SAP R4 to the entity’s local banks and accounts for bank reconciliation and payments processes.
• Migration of existing accounting system’s Trial Balance to SAP R4 for operation.
• Detailed control of journals, account balances and assets migration to SAP R4
• Working in deep collaboration with the local Finance teams throughout to understand the current processes and activities; to be ready and find solutions in SAP R4 and related software programs.
• Continuous support post go live to the local Finance team and IT.

Working with IT for the setup, interfacing and testing to SAP R4 of add on software tools for travel expenses, banking, invoice workflow and consolidation.

• Work on the global process set up and ensure each entity adapts to it, all the while ensuring the local legal requirements are met.
• Buildup of the mapping of accounts between SAP R4 and the external system tools for each entity.
• Deep collaboration is required between the candidate and IT, Treasury, Financial Planning & Analysis (FPA), trading and projects teams, local and worldwide.
• Currently using external tools of iRely (CTRM), Expensify (Travel Expenses), OneStream (Consolidation). Previous knowledge/experience of these software will be an advantage.

Report Design for the new systems and tools.

• With the new systems we will require new reports and controls in place to ensure the robustness of the implementations. On top of the design of global harmonized reports for Trial Balance, Financial Statements, Forex Exposures, Ageing lists, etc., local reports will be required to be built at each new system implementation to replace the current used reports or fill the gaps and make the entity more efficient and accurate.
• Deep collaboration is required between the candidate and IT, Risk, Internal Audit, Treasury, Financial Planning & Analysis (FPA), trading and projects teams, local and worldwide.

New Systems design

• As part of a team, envision, design, test and implement a wide range of new systems and tools to continuously allow the Finance team to progress.
• Continuous support worldwide on behalf of Finance teams with these new systems and tools

Finance Systems Support

• Provide continuous support for worldwide finance teams on legacy systems being used and any issues or enhancements required.
• This includes all departments within the Finance department; Treasury, FPA, Accounting, and even cross departments of trading and logistics.
• Performing month end closes reporting controls and reconciliations to ensure the tools the teams are using are working correctly and as expected. This requires knowledge of derivatives accounting, trade accounting, forex accounting and reconciliation
• Accounting reports testing and controls in all areas; from asset management to VAT to month end PNL reconciliation between trading and accounting, and everything in between.
• Active Forex Exposure and management experience

Process Improvement

• Identify, design, test and implement process improvements to enhance financial efficiency, effectiveness and internal controls.

Project management for Finance team

• Key person of contact to receive project ideas and requests from the finance teams worldwide.
• Manage those accepted projects from the idea to execution on behalf of global finance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field.
• Foundation in accounting, preferably trade accounting, with knowledge and experience of futures, Forex Trades, Commodity contracts.
• SAP R4 accounting experience
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in finance related roles of accounting, trade accounting, controlling, finance analysis, or similar positions.
• Financial Expertise
• Solid understanding of financial concepts, accounting principles, financial analysis techniques
• Knowledge and experience of IFRS an advantage.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to gather the right data, analyse, control and understand
• Proficient in interpreting accounting data and concepts to non-accounting people.
• Capable of comparing and reconciling large amounts of data in a broad sense but also able to focus on detailed areas.
• Comfortable with detailed controls and at the same time a broad-minded view to be able to choose where to focus that detailed analysis upon.
• Ability and successful experience of working in deep collaboration in cross functional teams.
• Aptitude for working in a fast paced, very dynamic work environment
• Skilled at getting jobs done on time and above expectations.
• Demonstrate alignment with our company core values, including integrity, accountability, teamwork and continuous improvement.
• Willingness to travel and spend periods (2-3 weeks) at various company locations as required (4-5 times per year)
• Self-motivated. The position requires you to be mainly self-driven to plan, organise and execute to ensure the jobs are being completed within the deadlines and above expectations.
• Details matter. As the job requires a lot of testing and control of accounting, the candidate is required to be very detail orientated and at ease with the accounting environment from A to Z. Whilst knowledge of everything is not necessary, the ability and willingness to learn everything is a must.