Company Info
Lafarge Africa Plc is a part of the LafargeHolcim Group, the world’s largest provider of construction and concrete solutions. It provides Nigeria with a broad variety of building and construction solutions to suit housing and construction demands, from small projects like individual house builds to huge construction and infrastructure projects. The firm is publicly traded on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE).
1). AP & Transactional Treasury Manager
Requisition ID: 1495
Location: Opebi – Ikeja, Lagos
Summary
- Fully responsible for, and overseeing the payable and transactional treasury functions across Lafarge Africa – Nigerian Operations covering Lafarge Africa HQ, Wapco operations, Ashaka, Ready Mix, Atlas & UniCem (Cement, A&C and HO).
- Ensure that payments are optimized with internal and external customer satisfaction, while seeking ways to optimize the process and working capital.
Responsibilities
Accounts Payable:
- Ensure smooth account closing and pre-closing process of the accounts payable module.
- Ensure periodic reconciliation of key suppliers account, and independently liaise with all external suppliers and ensure that issues are resolved.
- Effectively manage allocated funds for settlement of suppliers’ invoices.
- Ensure payments are made in line with the payment terms agreed with suppliers, while optimizing net working capital.
- Generate payment reports and all such reports that provide transparency on settlement and status of invoices.
- Maintain satisfactory relationship with all the suppliers through the supplier care unit.
- Resolve all discrepancies with supplies.
- Manage all invoice processes, receiving every invoice from vendors, and matching these to the purchase order made.
- Ensure that all items received are properly invoiced.
- Manage the purchase ledger efficiently.
- Ensure timely payment of vendor invoices and expense vouchers.
- Maintain accurate records and control reports.
- Review applicable accounting reports and accounts payable register to ensure accuracy.
- Ensure account payable sub-ledgers reconcile to main ledger.
- Apply relevant statutory (WHT etc) deduction to payments.
- Advise on regulations regarding payments to suppliers / contractors.
- Maintain regular reconciliation with all suppliers and Inter-company accounts. Treasury Transactions
- Foreign Exchange management: Ensure proper management of daily FX operations across the business, and timely issuance of the needed reports.
- Import Letters of Credit: Manage the postings of all Letter of Credits (LC) for the suppliers, ensure that LC applications received are processed within approved SLA and in line with local and international standards. Matching of the LC with Vendors and inventories.
- External Audit and Documentation: Work closely with internal and external teams to perform process review / audit to ensure satisfactory audit by respective teams.
- Perform monthly review of treasury data to maintain clean and clear records reconciled with the company accounting books.
- Maintain high level of internal control and ensure timely clearance of any IC point.
- Provide professional guidance and technical expertise for the day to day operations of the unit.
- Ensure that Internal Control Standards are fully implemented and related procedures are effectively followed.
- Ensure the smooth operation of the Payable and transactional Treasury units with high customer service satisfaction.
- Lead projects towards continuous improvement of the payable and treasury processes.
Job Dimensions
List of Direct Reports:
- Accounts Payable Accountants
- Accounts Payable Admin Officers
- Treasury Operations Analyst
- Scanning and suppliers support unit.
Key Interfaces, Stakeholders and Relationships:
- Head, Finance Shared Services
- All payment initiating units, i.e. basically the whole organization
- Plant Control section of finance
- Tax section of finance
- Treasury section of finance
- Internal Audit
- Suppliers
- Contractors.
Profile Required
Education & Qualification:
- B.sc / HND (Accounting / Social Sciences)
- ACA /, ACCA
- 8 – 10 years post NYSC working experience with minimum of 4 years on similar role and in Managerial positions.
Technical / Functional Skills:
- Good knowledge of an ERP environment – ideally SAP
- Understanding and correct application of VAT regulations with FIRS
- Understanding and correct application of WHT regulations with FIRS
- Internal controls
- Advance MS-Excel Knowledge
- Good presentation skills for educating external clients on company policies and procedures
- Good experience on treasury transactions (FX payments, letters of credit, hedging accounting, cash position reports.
Behavioral Competence:
- Effective communication skills with people at all levels of the business
- Decisive under pressure considering the criticality and urgency of decisions
- Good analytical skills to identify roots causes of issues
- Strong ability to relate with external stake-holders and create win/win solutions.
Leadership and Managerial Abilities:
- Strong leadership skills, ability to federate the team
- Management oriented towards performance and results
- Coaching skills, high interest in helping and developing others
- Strong leadership potential
- Personal and intra-personal communication skills
- Good integrity and ethics; trustworthiness
- Ability to pay attention to details
- Good planning and organizational skills to balance and prioritize work.
Mobility Requirements:
- Moderately mobile.
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2). Reporting & Consolidation Manager
Requisition ID: 1497
Location: Opebi – Ikeja, Lagos
Summary
- The role is responsible for ensuring proper and timely closing of accounting periods, including reporting of financial information to internal and external stakeholders including Group, Country Management, the Board of Directors and relevant regulatory authorities including SEC, NSE, and Financial Reporting Council.
Responsibilities
GL Period Closing Administration:
- Maintain period closing and fiscal year change in SAP
- Manage period closing cockpit
- Manage statistical key figures
- Responsible for all FI valuation runs, provisions and discounting
- Maintain and display period lock.
General Accounting:
- Create and change consolidation units
- Display hierarchy
- Enter and upload financial data
- Run and display drilldown reports
- Consolidation and change of investments
- Create, change, delete and display standard layouts, libraries, reports and report groups
- Create, display and change model
- Import and export reports and models
- Display, delete and print extracts.
Fixed Assets Management Functions:
- Manage a system of controls, procedures, and forms for recording/creating fixed assets.
- Recommend to management any updates to accounting policies related to fixed assets.
- Assign tag numbers to fixed assets and oversee fixed assets verification exercise
- Record fixed asset acquisitions and dispositions in the accounting system.
- Track the compilation of project costs/Capital expenditures into fixed asset accounts, and capitalise those projects once they have been completed.
- Reconcile the balance in the fixed asset module to the summary-level account in the general ledger
- Calculate depreciation for all fixed assets.
- Review and update the detailed schedule of fixed assets movement
- Investigate and manage critical spares which meets capitalisation criteria.
- Conduct periodic impairment reviews for all tangible and intangible assets.
- Recommend to management whether fixed assets should be disposed of.
- Conduct analyses related to fixed assets as requested by management.
- Prepare audit schedules relating to fixed assets, and assist the auditors in their inquiries.
- Represent the company during any audits that involve fixed assets.
- Track company expenditures for fixed assets in comparison to the capital budget and management authorizations
Reporting & Consolidation Functions:
- Perform consolidations in order to produce internal and external financial reporting.
- Prepare statutory information and validate the data used to compile statutory results
- Contribute to ad hoc financial reporting by ensuring the correct level of support is available for the preparation of any ad hoc financial report.
- Prepare statements reporting the financial position, cash flow and results of the business to Group, Country management, the board
- Produce and file quarterly and annual returns with SEC, NSE, FRC
- Prepare quarterly press release on the results
- Prepare quarterly board papers
- Monitor and ensure timely identification and compliance with evolving accounting guidance
- Provide IFRS interpretation and prepare technical memorandums that document issues in a clear, logical and comprehensive manner
- Manage communications with external auditors on external financial statements and accounting issues to ensure auditors’ agreement with company decisions on accounting disclosures, and issues
- Assist in the coordination of annual audit and quarterly review activities of external auditors
- Implement and maintain reporting procedures to comply with internal control requirements
- Be the lead and provide technical expertise on the financial reporting tool.
- Perform continuous assessment of the close process and process re-engineering to reduce the timing to close the financial period.
- Support month end and year end closing
- Ensure timely submission of monthly reports to the group
- Ensure that all data and information provided in is reliable, correct, and updated.
- Identify, implement and communicate process improvements.
Job Dimensions
List of direct reports:
- Reporting & Consolidation Analyst.
Key interfaces, stakeholders and relationships:
- Internal to the Country Shared Services
- Head, Finance Shared Services.
External to the Country Shared Services:
- Master Data Management
- Finance & Control
- The Group
- Country legal department
- Other Country Shared Services counterparts
- Reporting & Consolidation Team in the Group
External to the Group:
- External auditors.
Profile Required
Education & Qualification:
- B.Sc / HND (Accounting / Social Sciences)
- ACA /, ACCA (compulsory)
- 7 years post NYSC working experience with minimum of 5 years on similar role and in Managerial position.
Technical / Functional Skills:
- Good knowledge of an ERP environment – ideally JDE or SAP
- Practical knowledge of IAS, IFRS
- Internal controls
- Advance MS-Excel Knowledge
- Practical understanding of LHARP.
Behavioral Competence:
- Effective communication skills
- Good analytical skills.
Leadership and Managerial Abilities:
- Strong leadership skills
- Management oriented towards performance and results
- Ability to pay attention to details
Mobility Requirements:
- Relatively Mobile.
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3). Kiln Coach
Requisition ID: 624
Location: Mfamosing, Cross River
Summary
- The responsibility of the kiln Coach is to guarantee efficiency and optimization of the burning line by working in conjunction with process, quality and maintenance team, and to improve plant performance by developing the Control Room Operators to mastery level of competency in VRM and kiln operations.
- This is achieved through a continuous process of daily performance monitoring, evaluation and feedback, maintaining and improving the plant efficiency through analysis of specific process parameters and ensuring conformities with Safety, Environmental and Quality guidelines.
Responsibilities
- Performs all tasks in a safe and efficient manner.
- Analyzes all process incidents and work with CCRO to mitigate the impact of such incidents and propose solutions to prevent future reoccurrence.
- Monitors application of Production SOP’s.
- Coordinate the development of operational procedures (SOPs) for the execution of all production related tasks in the plant.
- Helps Plant operators to achieve operational consistencies by:
- Leading incident review analysis process with CCR operators
- Setting operational objectives from the operator incident review log data analysis
- Reviewing and analyzing the shift production charts and report.
- Identifying the possible cause of process target deviations and gaps in optimum conditions.
- Reviewing and analyzing the clinker quality control data
- Reviewing and analyzing the raw mix preparation quality control data
- Reviewing and analyzing shift downtime reports from the software (ADAP, etc)
- Monitor and ensure compliance with environmental regulations.
- Supports plant operators training and development by:
- Identifying the training and development needs for CCR operators and patrollers
- Conducting effective one –on-one training activities
- Making effective use of available training media for training delivery (CECIL + Produce & Maintain)
- Developing an effective structured on the job training program (OJT)
- Conducting effective group training activities.
- Design and develop training modules.
- Leading role in POM implementation.
- Participate in the incident analysis process and contribute to improvement recommendations.
- Ensures alignment of SOP’s with accepted control strategies and best practices.
- Plays a priority role in operator training, assessment, and certification.
- Proper inspection of the kiln workshops during failures and turn around maintenance
- Optimize the production process using control loops
- Develop control room operators and production supervisors competencies, coaching sessions and training modules
- Create, update, and validate all production standard operation procedures (SOP) for all production jobs.
- Participate actively in plant performance and plant reliability meetings
- Apply effective coaching techniques in on the job training with CCROs and Shift Production
Administration
- Report and investigate accidents and near misses with accident investigation committee.
- Assist the Production Manager in preparation of department operation budget, monthly accurals and capita; projects.
- Work with section/ senior engineers in planning and scheduling of major and minor plant maintenance / shutdowns.
- Maintain a tool inventory used by production personnel
- Maintain and administer monthly shift roster and leave roster
- Assist the Production Manager in the development and implementation of training plans for the production personnel
- Detect training needs of Shift personnel, guide and train them
- Appraise subordinates and recommend promotions, transfers and disciplinary actions,
- Compiles on daily basis job done during major repairs and discuss with Methods the execution of outstanding jobs for the incoming team.
- Monitors the cost of production and expenditures in order to optimize the cost per tonne of clinker and cement.
- Assist the Production Manager in the manpower planning and development.
- Ensures compliance with environmental and quality management systems (ISO 14001 & 9001 -2000).
- Ensures the plant surrounding are in good environmental state at all times
- Ensures the efficiency and effectiveness of subordinates and instill discipline from time to time.
- To maintain the quality within the range as defined in the Quality Management System (QMS).
- Monitor the production results (production amount, energy consumption, etc.) in order to meet the target KPIs.
- This list of responsibilities is not exhaustive and the job holder may be required to perform duties outside of this as operationally required.
Job Dimensions
- Sales, number of people, budget, volumes, etc.
- Sales: 3m tons of cement /annum Volumes: 2.5m tons of clinker and 3m tons of cement grind per annum.
List of Direct Reports
- CCROs
Key interfaces, stakeholders and relationships:
- The incumbent interacts regularly with all cadres of staff.
- Report to Production Manager, Interface with the following: Process, Mechanical, Methods, Electrical, Automation, Safety, Quarry, and Stores departments.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):
- Zero LTI
- Volume target
- Quality Target maintained
- STEC target
- Mills and kilns PRI
- SEEC target
- No of refractory failures
Educational Qualification & Experience
- First Degree or equivalent in any Engineering discipline (Mechanical / Electrical Engineering as main subjects)
- 5 to 7 years’ experience in Control Room Operations (VRM, CSM, Kilns)
- CRO Certified.
Technical / Functional Skills:
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Strong computer Skills especially Excel, word, PowerPoint and email applications
- Ability to prioritize with excellent time management skills
- Good attention to detail
- People management skills.
Behavioral competence:
- Good interpersonal skills
- Strong team player
- Adaptable
- Tact and tolerant
- Ability to work well under pressure and adhere to set deadlines
- Resilient and Motivated.
Leadership and managerial abilities:
- Excellent management skills and ability to organize and plan effectively to meet both short and long range goals and objectives.
- Ability to manage multiple project plans successfully and simultaneously.
- Ability to motivate individuals and teams
- Able to coach and direct a diverse team.
Deadline: Not Specified.
How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should use the links below to apply: