Financial Controller

Wärtsilä Energy leads the transition towards a 100% renewable energy future. We help our partners to accelerate their decarbonisation journeys through our market-leading technologies and power system modelling expertise. These cover decarbonisation services, future-fuel enabled balancing power plants, hybrid solutions, energy storage and optimisation technology, including the GEMS Digital Energy Platform.

Did you know Wärtsilä has delivered 79 GW of power plant capacity and more 125 energy storage installations in 180 countries around the world?

In this fast changing world of energy, we are constantly on the lookout for future-oriented talent to join our team and to work towards enabling sustainable societies through innovation in technology and services - together. Want to join the ride?

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Managing, controlling and ensuring the correctness of company level financial position according to legal compliance and Wärtsilä Corporation accounting manual, directives, policies, guidelines and requirements.
• Preparing and reporting certain quarterly and tax notes in HFM
• Continuous follow-up on local legislation changes and requirements
• Collecting and preparing financial information, reports and analyses to internal and external stakeholders and authorities, e.g. local statutory reporting
• Preparing statutory local adjustments and bridge calculations
• Providing and presenting Financial Review material to the company Board of Directors Meeting
• Co-ordinating external auditing, internal auditing and internal control reporting of the company, as well as remediation of relevant internal controls
• Supporting and participating in development and optimizing of WGBS and ST&CC projects which require financial competence and support, in cooperation with global process owners and other stakeholders
• Supporting and advising the businesses in financial processes related to statutory, tax and company compliance
• High performance culture in accordance with Wärtsilä and WGBS strategy, vision, mission and values
• Responsible for local Sub-Group or/and Tax Group or/and branch reporting (if applicable)
• Approving some limited SAP access rights
• Preparing and maintaining local Delegation of Authority (DoA) documentation
• Managing system authorisations, Power of Attorneys, Letter of Authorities e.g. for local banks
• Approving items according to company Delegation of Authority
• Reporting (mandatory) financial statistics to local authorities
• Tax related compliance in co-operation with Tax CoE (calculations reclaims, risk reporting, litigations, auditing)
• Co-ordinating property related insurance matters and insurance claims together with Group Risk Management and Businesses
• Company secretarial tasks (in some of the companies)
• Member of the Company Management Team (in some of the companies)
• Involvement in possible changes in the company legal structures (mergers, acquisitions, liquidations) Decision rights and accountabilities
• In Accordance with the local group / company level Delegation of Authority
• Decisions for day-to-day performance management Contributing to related process development and investment decisions.

Main forums and stakeholders:

• ST&CC (region) forums with business stakeholders, group control, treasury and WGBS services
• Report and share the overview and feedback of company level financial figures and KPIs to business stakeholders, company management team and company Board of Directors

You will shine in this role, when you have:
Qualifications And Experience.

• Professional qualification - Associate Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA) or Associate Chartered Accountant (FCA) or equivalent- Mandatory
• Bachelor or Master's level university education or equivalent – Added advantage
• 3-5 years of experience in Finance for the related process / function of the position.
• Subject matter expertise on financial statutory accounting, company compliance and/or taxation.

Skills And Competencies

• Strong leadership, networking, communication skills
• Problem solving & service excellence skills
• Subject matter expertise on Financial Statutory Accounting
• Wartsila accounting and IFRS knowledge (both international and local)
• Local accounting & tax laws and principles
• Auditing (both external and internal) knowledge
• Internal Control knowledge
• Analysing skills
• Corporate Governance and Code of Conduct
• Out of the box thinker
• SAP and other relevant reporting tools
• Fluent in English | Working knowledge of French
• Adaptability
• Innovation
• Team working, Relationship building
• Cooperation with different external and internal stakeholders
• Cultural sensitivity

Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria – Primary | Douala, Cameroon & Port Gentil, Gabon - Secondary
Last application date:
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