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Finance Manager (Based in Tanzania)
Location
The successful candidate for this role will be based in Tanzania.
The Role
We are looking for a motivated professional to join us in the capacity of Finance Manager, based in West Kilimanjaro.
In this role you will be reporting to the General Manager with a dotted line to the Financial Controller TMEA (Turkey, Middle East & Africa) region and work pro-actively with our Regional Leadership Team, staff and other stakeholders to advance and maintain our program of continuous improvement of our financial management and accounting practices.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate and direct the preparation of the budget and financial forecasts and report variances
- Support month-end and year-end close process
- Prepare and publish timely monthly financial statements
- Support new projects' financial projections
- Capex application, preparation and spending control (project management)
- Support managers with business information to the decision-making process
- KPI and Cost control analysis
- Coordinate the preparation of regulatory reporting
- Improve the quality control over financial transactions and financial reporting
- Coordinate to comply with local, state and federal government reporting requirements and tax fillings
- Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
Job Qualifications - Proven working experience in finance
- 5+ years of overall combined accounting and finance experience
- Bachelor's in Accountancy or related field
- Registered member of NBAA (CPA Holder)
- Understanding of poultry operations is preferred
- Strong knowledge of Excel, Great Plains. Any ERP experience is an added advantage.
- Excellent verbal, written communication and organizational skills
- Detailed-oriented approach and the ability to prioritize work-flow and meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment. Also, willing to work late hours when deadlines need to be met
- Proven knowledge of bookkeeping and accounting principles, practices, standards, laws and regulations
- Experience in international company is an added advantage
- The ability to work autonomously
- Have an engaging personality with the ability to relate to a wide range of people
- Fluent in English
Please Note: The poultry industry has very strict biosecurity and animal welfare standards, so it's important that we note that to ensure these are met all employees are restricted from keeping pet birds, poultry, pigs or other intensive livestock at their place of residence.
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Location Johannesburg, South Africa Who is Aviagen? Aviagen is the world's leading poultry breeding company developing pure breeding stock lines for the production of commercial broiler chickens.
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Aviagen is the world's leading poultry breeding company developing pure breeding stock lines for the production of commercial broiler chickens. Through the years, we've grown to become a multinational company with multiple poultry brands. The company headquarters are in Huntsville, Alabama, US, with a number of wholly owned operations across the United Kingdom, Europe, Turkey, Latin America, India, Australia, New Zealand, and the US, and joint ventures in Asia. We employ more than 4,900 culturally and linguistically diverse people and have a distribution network serving customers in more than 100 countries. Our success lies in our commitment to our customers around the globe.
As an R&D-driven company, Aviagen invests more than 10 percent of revenue annually in our balanced breeding program and have pioneered a long list of industry firsts that have supported the success of our customers and their businesses, and championed poultry health and welfare worldwide.
Our vision is to play a leading role in feeding future generations by providing quality breeding stock to produce a healthy and sustainable source of protein.
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Who are we looking for? Aviagen is looking for people with positive, proactive attitudes, and who have a quest for knowledge, seeking continuous improvement in everything they do.
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Aviagen is looking for people with positive, proactive attitudes, and who have a quest for knowledge, seeking continuous improvement in everything they do. They enjoy collaborating in a team environment and make customer care a top priority.
Aviagen offers great opportunities in a breadth of careers, not only in scientific occupations such as veterinarians, nutritionists, incubationists, geneticists and microbiologists, but also in export logistics, marketing, sales and finance. It brings with it invigorating challenges, and the satisfaction of making a true difference for now and for years to come.
As the global population continues to skyrocket, the industry needs educated, energized professionals with great vision to lead the way in helping to feed the world. To breed the best, we need the best. As the world's leading primary poultry breeder, we are helping to supply current and future generations with a healthy, available, and sustainable source of chicken protein.
Believing in the importance of what we do and working together towards the same goal fuels our focus on innovation and continuous improvement as a company. As a result, each Aviagen employee shares a common company culture and values, and plays a vital role in the company's success.
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How do we impact the world? Aviagen takes its corporate and social responsibilities seriously.
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Aviagen takes its corporate and social responsibilities seriously. We are committed to ethical and responsible global citizenship, making social accountability an intrinsic part of our corporate culture. Our pledge is to make a positive impact on our customers, shareholders, distributors, employees, communities, the environment and the birds in our care.
Aviagen makes a meaningful difference through annual philanthropic activities on local, national and international levels. And our people generously dedicate their time, skills and financial resources to fundraisers, sponsorships and awareness programs to make a positive difference in their communities and the world.
Industry analysts predict that the global demand for chicken meat will increase by 85 percent between 2000 and 2050. Poultry breeding continually applies ingenuity and the latest science for the betterment of birds, farmers and their communities, consumers, and the environment. One of the many examples of how we are making a significant and verifiable impact on our world is through innovative research and development techniques such as feed conversion ratio (FCR) selection. Using feed stations and state-of-the-art transponder and weighing technologies to look at the feeding behavior of individual birds during their entire lifetimes, we can significantly enhance genetic selection for a balanced breeding process, and promoting the vitality of our birds. The recorded feeding data helps improve feed efficiency in chickens, which brings greater economic and environmental sustainability. Environmental and social sustainability are poultry production virtues that members of the breeding community take pride in.
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