Finance Controller, East Africa - General Electric

Role Summary/Purpose

The Finance Controller provides technical Controllership guidance to both finance and operations leaders across Countries within the GE Healthcare East Africa Local Contact Team (LCT). The Controller will be responsible for adherence to Globally accepted as well as GE-specific and local accounting policies, financial systems and internal controls.

Essential Responsibilities

As a key member of the LCT team, the Controller will liaise with the Africa Controller and LCT Finance Manager as well as the commercial and operations teams. 

Duties include (but are not limited to):

• Collaborate with Global Operations – Finance (GOF) to ensure timely and accurate recording of financial transactions in compliance with Global Accounting Standards. Financial statements must reflect a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the measurement and STAT books and that appropriate quality of book-keeping is maintained. Own accuracy of DR4 and other financial modules 
• Ensure balance sheet account reconciliations are completed within corporate 
• Develop metrics and operating mechanisms to measure Enterprise Service Delivery by GOF and drive continuous simplification and service improvement. Stay lean to grow fast. 
• Align with relevant Enterprise Standard (ES) owners to ensure timely filing all stat/regulatory record related to the project and ensure smooth engagement with external regulators, Tax Authorities, external and internal Auditors (including CAS) 
• Ensure accurate and timely revenue recognition in line with GE GAP 
• Monitor inventory & Fixed Asset levels and ensure regular counts, reserves and adjustments are made in compliance with company policy and processes 
• Strong engagement with ICP’s. Ensure adherence to GE’s policies and procedures. Lead periodic process and compliance audits including but not limited to Inventory counts 
• Perform routine trainings/refreshers to non-Finance team on key compliance & controllership policies and procedures guiding commercial operations. . 
• Remain contemporary. Close collaboration with regional and global controllership Teams and COE’s and ensure 2-way knowledge and information sharing. Research and advice on complex technical accounting issues 
• Participate in annual pre-close, quarterly CFO risk reviews and monthly controllership reviews with key operations and financial management personnel. 
• Partner with GE Corporate Audit Staff and Finance Managers for internal GE compliance reviews. Drive closure of open audit issues and proactively work to prevent future issues / manage risk. Lead resulting corrective action process implementation and follow up throughout the organization. 
• Provide required mentoring, coaching of subordinate Controllers/Finance team members to ensure personal and professional growth and promote open reporting/compliance mindset within Team 
• Champion compliance & risk mitigation and foster strong compliance culture – engage relevant COE’s including, but not limited to Customs & Compliance specialists to ensure prompt identification and mitigation of compliance risks related to commercial activities 
• Provide strong operational support to commercial and OTR teams. Give Financial and leadership support to teams on the ground to help execute in a challenging environment

Qualifications/Requirements

1. Bachelors degree or equivalent in accounting, finance, or other business related field and minimum of 7 years progressive accounting or finance experience 
2. Demonstrated proficiency in U.S. GAAP, local GAAP and authoritative accounting literature (i.e. FASB pronouncements). 
3. CPA / CA, “Big 4” Audit, GE Corporate Audit Staff (CAS) or Internal Audit experience not mandatory but added advantage

Desired Characteristics

1. Integrity: accepting and adhering to high moral, ethical, and personal values in decisions, communications, actions and when dealing with others 

2. Confidence/Assertiveness: strong influencing & communication skills 

3. Experience working in a global business environment with sound understanding of global process and transactional flows 

4. Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate complex business issues in a clear/concise manner 

5. Clear thinking/problem solving strong bias for simplification and process improvements. 

6. Experience working in a matrixed environment 

7. GE Beliefs

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