Assistant Finance Manager

Business Information - Integrated Feed & ProteinWe’re one of the leading animal feed and day-old chick producers in Nigeria. We operate one of Nigeria's largest poultry feed mills and day-old-chick facilities in Kaduna State, and in Kwara state. Our aqua feed plant in Nigeria is the first in Sub-Saharan Africa, along with a poultry feed mill. Both these facilities are helping serve Nigeria’s expanding poultry and aquaculture sectors.

To strengthen and expand our animal feed and protein capabilities in West Africa, while generating synergies with its wheat milling business in Senegal we recently acquired Avisen SARL a major suppliers of feed, with its facility located in Rufisque producing over 100,000 metric tons (MT) of feed annually.

For more information please visit: Integrated Feed & Protein | Olam Agri

Job Description

As a Finance Manager, you will be responsible for managing financial operations, planning, reporting, and controls to ensure financial accuracy, compliance, and effective governance. You will provide financial insights, monitor business performance, and support informed decision-making to help achieve the organization’s financial and strategic 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.

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.

Qualifications

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

Olam Agri is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, nationality, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Applicants are requested to complete all required steps in the application process including providing a resume/CV in order to be considered for open roles.