Area Site BCO – JL3
Would you like to be part of a value-driven, commercially oriented international environment where we enable global trade every day? We are looking for a Site Business Controller to join our team and play a critical role in driving financial control, profitability, governance, and risk management at site level.
The Site Business Controller acts as a trusted business partner at the frontline, ensuring a strong control environment, protecting financial performance, and ensuring adherence to corporate governance, policies, and procedures.
Key Responsibilities
1. Customer Implementation Support
- Review compliance to customer implementation as per Corporate Governance, Policy, and Procedure.
- Support and provide input for new customer implementations to ensure all critical tasks with financial impact are completed (e.g. costing, Billing SOPs in place).
- Review checklists for all new customer implementations and raise flags where critical items are incomplete or corporate policy is not complied with.
- Monitor completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of invoicing in line with valid customer contracts.
- Manage stakeholder relationships with authorities and other financial stakeholders to ensure effective communication and collaboration.
2. Financial Profitability Hygiene
- Protect financial profitability through site profitability completeness checks and reviews to drive revenue assurance and deliver profitability in line with agreements.
- Analyse and review site profitability (CM1), including loss-making sites and sites deviating from defined profitability models.
- Review weekly and monthly financial reports, coordinate statutory accounts, and ensure compliance with IFRS and statutory regulations.
- Document and follow up on actions to address process control gaps in low-margin or loss-making revenue streams.
- Identify and address revenue leakage with Delivery teams.
- Conduct control reviews to identify excessive costs and revenue leakage and collaborate with the Site Manager to resolve discrepancies.
3. Health Metrics and Governance
- Drive local review of Health Metrics KPIs, including invoice quality, accuracy, and timeliness.
- Review Global Health Metrics KPIs related to operational profitability and process hygiene.
- Support Area/Country Leadership with local risk reviews and performance management actions.
- Ensure adequate follow-up on actions to improve health metrics.
- Escalate key business and financial risks to Finance Leadership, including mitigation plans.
- Ensure adherence to GAM and RACI across all key processes from customer implementation to execution.
4. Operational Risk Management (1st Line of Defence)
- Review controls related to profitability (e.g. job costing) and identify root causes of control inefficiencies.
- Partner with business functions to develop and drive mitigation plans.
- Review effectiveness of internal controls (existing and new platforms) and track action plans for ineffective controls.
- Conduct reviews of critical site processes and associated risks.
- Support internal and external audit activities related to business execution.
5. Audit Support
- Support external auditors and regulatory agencies during audits and engagements.
- Act as the site point of contact for audits and provide required documentation and information.
- Review stock reconciliation reports to ensure system stock matches physical stock.
6. Other Responsibilities
- Provide ad hoc support to the business as required by the Manager.
Who We Are Looking For
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting (required).
- Professional certification such as ACCA is highly desirable.
- Minimum 3-5 years’ relevant experience in finance, business control, or a similar role.
Key Competencies
- Strong financial acumen and understanding of operational and warehousing processes.
- Proven experience in financial controls, risk management, and profitability analysis.
- Ability to collaborate across functions and influence without authority.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and attention-to-detail skills.
- Excellent written and spoken English communication skills.
