National Oilwell Varco is recruiting a Country Controller, to be based in Luanda, Angola.
Duties
- Organize and supervise the accounting processes to make sure they are optimized, and provide accurate and on time information
- AR (including follow up on collection)
- AP
- Cash
- Costing & inventory
- General accounting
- Organize and supervise preparation of monthly, quarterly, yearly financials that meet the NOV reporting requirements in terms of quality of accounting, deadline and documentation of controls
- Organize and supervise preparation of statutory financials that meet the Angolan requirements in terms of local accounting principle and deadlines
- Manage the relationship with internal auditors and statutory auditors
- Identify the key internal controls through analysis of business processes that may impact the Financials, and make sure such controls are effective and documented Designs, prepares and updates key indicators, and reports on effectiveness of processes Provide Operations with all financial information and analysis to support management decisions
- Partner with Operations to highlights and analyze the key financial indicators
- In close coordination with Treasury manager for Africa, the Country Controller for Angola will actively participate to:
- Make sure the financial needs of NOV Angolan entities are identified and properly anticipated to support the working capital and investment funding
- Implementation and execution of Corporate treasury policies and projects
Maintain good knowledge of local banking regulations/ payment mechanisms in Angola
- Organize, develop and maintain relationship with banks in the Country
- Coordinate with all operating divisions, local ledger Controllers, Tax Manager and Legal team to take into account Treasury related matters in the customer contract negotiations and in the day-to-day business
- Analyze FX exposures and ways of mitigating the risks
- Propose for approval, and implement cash management products / processes to optimize efficiencies
- Assist in Concur/credit card implementation and usage in Angola Overseas in daily management of cash and debt, and assist in routine and daily banking matters as required
- Manage cash flow forecast (collate the bi weekly cash forecast report and verify accuracy) in order to anticipate cash situations and manage such situations
- Provide Operations with all financial information and analysis to support management decisions
- In close coordination with Tax manager for Africa, the Country Controller for Angola will:
- Organize and supervise the Tax processes to make sure they are optimized, and provide accurate and on time information
- Organize and supervise preparation of monthly, quarterly, yearly tax information included in the Financials that meet the NOV reporting requirements in terms of quality of accounting, deadline and documentation
- Organize and supervise preparation of Tax Returns that meet the Angolan Tax requirements and deadlines
- Make sure all direct and indirect Taxes payments are done on time according to Angolan rules
- Manage the relationship with Tax auditors Identify the key internal controls through analysis of business processes that may impact the Tax exposures, and make sure such controls are effective and documented
- Designs, prepares and updates key indicators, and reports on effectiveness of processes
- Provide Operations with all financial information and analysis to support management decisions
- In close coordination with Operations, and other Corporate functions, the Country Controller for Angola will:
- Make sure the entities meet the Corporate Governance requirements (Board of Directors, AGM) and be the point of contact for Legal, Make sure the entities pay the payroll taxes due in country Make sure all the services agreement are in place and approved to meet the local requirements
- In general, identify all risk related to our business in country and propose mitigation plan
- Assigns individual and collective targets to a team of direct (or indirect) reports in order to have proper results on Accounting, Tax, Treasury functions
- Supervises closely the team and measures regularly achievements to the assigned targets
- Identifies the needs for his team and justifies to management: hiring needs, training needs, salary proposals
- Makes the evaluation meeting with the team members
- Ease the communication within Finance team, and with Operations
Requisites
- Master degree in Business Science or Accounting or Economics Angolan Accounting
- Strong experience Angolan accounting, tax returns review through experience in Audit in Angola and/or experience in similar position for minimum 8 years
- High level understanding of accounting theory
- Strong Leadership
- Capability to analyse, present, propose solutions on complex situations
- Ability to meet assigned deadlines
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to act and operate independently with minimal daily direction from manager to accomplish objectives
- Proficiency with email and Microsoft applications
- Ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with all levels of employees and management
- Fluent in English and portuguese
Notes
- Only short listed applicants will be contacted
How to Apply