Financial Services

Assistant Finance Manager At Olam Agri

Olam Agri·Delta, nigeria·Full Time·Onsite
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Job Description

  • Manage and oversee financial operations, planning, and controls to ensure accurate reporting, regulatory compliance, and strong financial performance in support of business objectives.

Responsibilities

Project Finance & Capex Management (Pre-Commissioning):

  • Maintain the project capex tracker and monitor all project expenditures.
  • Review spending against approved budgets and provide variance analysis.
  • Track commitments, purchase orders, advances, and actual costs across project workstreams.
  • Partner with Engineering, Procurement, and Project teams to ensure accurate project cost reporting.
  • Ensure compliance with approval limits, Delegation of Authority (DOA), and capitalization policies.
  • Prepare project finance dashboards and capex utilization reports for management review.
  • Monitor Capital Work-in-Progress (CWIP) and support timely capitalization of completed assets.
  • Support project close-out activities, asset creation, and transition to operations.

Plant Finance Leadership (Post-Commissioning):

  • Manage plant accounting activities and ensure accurate recording of financial transactions.
  • Lead month-end close and prepare timely MIS reports.
  • Monitor manufacturing costs and perform variance analysis to support operational performance.
  • Ensure compliance with accounting policies, SOPs, and statutory requirements.

Inventory, Assets & Governance:

  • Lead inventory counts, reconciliations, variance reviews, and corrective action plans.
  • Monitor inventory controls and analyse ageing, slow-moving, and obsolete stock.
  • Ensure timely capitalization of completed assets and projects.
  • Coordinate asset tagging, physical verification, transfers, and disposals.
  • Ensure compliance with capitalization and depreciation policies.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor degree in Accounting, Finance or equivalent
  • Qualified member of ICAN (Chartered Accountant, Nigeria).
  • Post Qualification Experience of 5 - 8 years.

Experience:

  • Experience in a Greenfield/Brownfield project environment.
  • Experience in manufacturing, FMCG, agribusiness, or industrial operations.
  • Hands-on experience in Capex Monitoring, Asset Capitalization, and Plant Accounting.

Key Skills Required:

  • Financial Accounting & Reporting.
  • Project Accounting & Capex Tracking.
  • Fixed Asset Accounting & Capitalization.
  • Plant Accounting & Manufacturing Finance.
  • SAP S/4HANA (FI, CO, MM, Asset Accounting).
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel & MIS Reporting.
  • Inventory Controls & Governance.

Key skills

BA/BSc/HNDProfessional Certificate
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At a glance

Company

Olam Agri

Location

Delta, nigeria

Employment

Full Time

Experience

Valid until

Not specified

Created

August 12, 2026

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