Phillips Consulting Limited is focused on creating and managing change in organisations
by helping them formulate and implement customer focused strategies, align
their management systems to support service delivery, and develop the
competence and capabilities of their people to deliver on their promises.
Phillips Consulting Limited is a wholly owned Nigerian firm with offices in
Lagos, Abuja and Johannesburg. Established in 1992, we offer an array of
business and management consulting services to government and corporate
organisations.
Phillip Consulting Limited is currently recruiting:
Job Title: Financial Controller
REF: FC 001
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Job Description
The ideal candidate under the guidance of the Council of Ministers and in
harmony with colleagues and the community is responsible for all the financial
control functions and will ensure the regularity of all financial transactions
within the Community Institutions in line with laid down rules and regulations.
Key Responsibilities
Provides leadership, strategic direction and monitors overall performance of
the finance team.
Ensures that expenditures in the Community Institutions are in line with their
approved budgets and proper implementation of budgetary and accounting
controls.
Endorses all commitments of expenditures in the Community Institutions.
Provides periodic reports on budgetary, financial and accounting monitoring of
the Community for the consideration of the Administration and Finance Committee.
Participates in the preparation of regulations aimed at improving the financial
and accounting management of the institutions and makes proposals on the
improvement of Financial and Accounting procedures to the Council of Ministers.
Ensures compliance with the Staff Regulations and other relevant texts of the
Community.
Collaborates with other regional international bodies, specialised institutions
and public-private partnerships to facilitate the implementation of regional
programmes.
Identifies strategic issues, opportunities and risks linked to the overall
objectives of the Commission, as well as those the accounting function.
Special Skills & Core
Competencies
Demonstrable understanding of Nigeria’s economic integration anddiplomatic
interests in the context of ECOWAS matters or demonstrated leadership ability
in advancing and articulating Nigeria’s economic integration and diplomatic
interests.
Demonstrate good interpersonal and diplomatic skills as well as average
proficiency in at least two of the three ECOWAS official languages i.e.English,
French and Portuguese.
Must be IT literate with good exposure in the implementation or use of
Enterprise Financial Management Systems such as Oracle Financials or S.A.P
Enterprise systems used by institutions with a minimum annual budget/turnover
of $100 million or N13 billion.
Experience in the use of Computer-Assisted Audit Tools (CAAT) to manage
financial and procurement transactions documents online on real time basis is
critical.
Demonstrate good working competence of International Accounting and Auditing
Standards used by International Public Sector Organisations and Government.
These include IPSAS (International Public Sector Accounting Standards),
International Auditing Standards (ISA), promulgated by IFAC.
Must have the ability to nurture contacts with senior-Government officials and
deepen the institutional structure of the Community.
Educational & Experience
Requirement
The ideal candidate must have a higher degree either in Finance, Accounting,
Business Management or any other related field, e.g. Economics from a reputable
university. Preferably at the doctoral level.
Must be a qualified chartered accountant – preferably a Fellow of an
international professional accounting body or institute recognised by the
International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) e.g ICAN/ANAN/ACCA/ ACMA
(UK)/CPA (USA).
A post graduate degree will be an added advantage.
Minimum of 20 years post qualification professional experience as a chartered
accountant. 10 years of these must be specific international experience working
with or consulting for multilateral/bi-lateral organizations (e.g. World Bank,
European Commission/EU, AU Commission, AfDB, USAID) or other donor
organizations, multi-national corporations (MNCs) or conglomerate group of
companies with responsibilities for financial controls, compliance with
internal control structures, budgets and commitments.
Possession of at least four years experience as a Senior Audit Manager or
Partner in any of the major global accountancy firms will be an advantage.
Application Closing Date
5th December, 2013
Please Note:
All applicants are required to describe how they meet all of the above criteria
in a cover letter to be submitted along with an updated and comprehensive
resume.
Application for the role is also to be supported by a write-up (PDF Format
only) of not more than 1000 words on the strategies to be deployed as the
Financial Controller in promoting economic integration agenda of the
commission’s economic activity in achieving its overall objectives.
Any applicant who is found to have criminal records, has been previously
indicted, or submits information that is established to be false will be
automatically disqualified at any stage in the process.
Candidates whose submission does not contain a detailed resume, cover letter and
the 1,000 words essay will not have thier application processed
