Finance Controller - Fertilizer/Agriculture Firm (14-20 yrs)

Finance Controller - Fertilizer/Agriculture

Job Description:

- Responsible for the preparation of the company's financial statements.

- Supervise the activities of all the accounting staff [A/P, A/R].

- Oversees month-end closing and year-end closing and coordinates and assigns duties to the accounting staff as needed.

- Maintain SAP accounting systems and Fixed Asset software to ensure the proper, complete, and accurate record-keeping of accounting company transactions are performed within the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

- Evaluates departmental performance and makes adjustments to daily operations when needed to ensure the department meets overall goals and objectives.

- Provides training, guidance, and direction to employees to ensure work is performed in an efficient, timely, and knowledgeable manner.

- Update contracts with the company's members and communicate changes to members accounting staff.

- Works directly with Sales Department and Operations Department on new, modified, and disconnect sales orders.

- Prepares and provides financial statements, sales reports, commission reports, analysis, and other reports on a scheduled or unprompted basis.

- Maintains and reconciles the fixed assets to the general ledger of the company.

- Prepare multiple state agency reports for tax purposes.

- Responsible for long and short term cash flow and working capital/liquidity management Managing balance sheet and day-to-day liquidity to support the business needs

- Design and implementation of hedging strategies to mitigate financial risk and liquidity management

- Investment of short-term cash surplus in money market instruments, making recommendations to CFO.

- Preparation of Board level cash and other risk management reporting Managing day-to-day cash and treasury activities in line with the Delegation of Authority

- Management of treasury team in their day-to-day responsibilities including bank reconciliations, payment runs, invoice settlement, direct debits, cash collection etc.

- Ensure regulatory/compliance returns and complete Tax Function

- Responsible to legally minimize tax liabilities through informed application of tax laws and regulations

- Manage tax compliance, reporting, and filing works for the Company.

- Ensure timely and accurate filing of all corporate and personnel income tax and GST returns