Financial Controller at Wartsila Marine and Power Services Nigeria Limited

⏲ Mar 12, 2025, 10:25 AM
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Wartsila Marine and Power Services Nigeria Limited is a global leader in smart technologies and complete lifecycle solutions for the marine and energy markets. By emphasising sustainable innovation, total efficiency and data analytics, Wärtsilä maximises the environmental and economic performance of the vessels and power plants of its customers. In 2018, Wärtsilä’s net sales totalled EUR 5.2 billion with approximately 19,000 employees. The company has operations in over 200 locations in more than 80 countries around the world.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Financial Controller

Location: Lagos,
Employment Type: Full-time

Roles and Responsibilities

Managing, controlling and ensuring the correctness of company level financial position according to legal compliance and Wärtsilä Corporation accounting manual, directives, policies, guidelines and requirements.
Providing and presenting Financial Review material to the company Board of Directors Meeting
Co-ordinating external auditing, internal auditing and internal control reporting of the company, as well as remediation of relevant internal controls
Supporting and participating in development and optimizing of WGBS and ST&CC projects which require financial competence and support, in cooperation with global process owners and other stakeholders
Supporting and advising the businesses in financial processes related to statutory, tax and company compliance
Preparing and reporting certain quarterly and tax notes in HFM
Continuous follow-up on local legislation changes and requirements
Collecting and preparing financial information, reports and analyses to internal and external stakeholders and authorities, e.g. local statutory reporting
Preparing statutory local adjustments and bridge calculations
High performance culture in accordance with Wärtsilä and WGBS strategy, vision, mission and values
Responsible for local Sub-Group or/and Tax Group or/and branch reporting (if applicable)
Approving some limited SAP access rights
Co-ordinating property related insurance matters and insurance claims together with Group Risk Management and Businesses
Company secretarial tasks (in some of the companies)
Member of the Company Management Team (in some of the companies)
Involvement in possible changes in the company legal structures (mergers, acquisitions, liquidations) Decision rights and accountabilities
In Accordance with the local group / company level Delegation of Authority
Decisions for day-to-day performance management Contributing to related process development and investment decisions.
Preparing and maintaining local Delegation of Authority (DoA) documentation
Managing system authorisations, Power of Attorneys, Letter of Authorities e.g. for local banks
Approving items according to company Delegation of Authority
Reporting (mandatory) financial statistics to local authorities
Tax related compliance in co-operation with Tax CoE (calculations reclaims, risk reporting, litigations, auditing)

Main forums and stakeholders:

ST&CC (region) forums with business stakeholders, group control, treasury and WGBS services
Report and share the overview and feedback of company level financial figures and KPIs to business stakeholders, company management team and company Board of Directors

Qualifications and experience

Professional qualification - Associate Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA) or Associate Chartered Accountant (FCA) or equivalent- Mandatory
Bachelor or Master’s level university education or equivalent – Added advantage
3-5 years of experience in Finance for the related process / function of the position.
Subject matter expertise on financial statutory accounting, company compliance and/or taxation.

Skills and competencies:

Strong leadership, networking, and communication skills
Problem solving & service excellence skills
Subject matter expertise on Financial Statutory Accounting
Wartsila accounting and IFRS knowledge (both international and local)
Local accounting & tax laws and principles · Auditing (both external and internal) knowledge
SAP and other relevant reporting tools
Fluent in English | Working knowledge of French
Adaptability
Innovation
Team working, Relationship building
Cooperation with different external and internal stakeholders
Cultural sensitivity.
Internal Control Knowledge
Analysing skills
Corporate Governance and Code of Conduct
Out of the box thinker