Finance Manager

Global Sourcing & Supply (GSS), a subsidiary of BMMI, is looking to recruit a skillful and capable Finance Manager to provide a comprehensive range of financial, tax, and administration services to support the operations in Libreville, Gabon.
You will work with a high degree of independence, delivering excellence in service standards, ensuring contractual compliance as per client requirements and achieving financial targets.
This is a family status position with a fixed annual leave of 26 days per annum in a difficult environment. You must be fluent in French and have broad knowledge of French accounting standards (OHADA etc.).
To apply, please send a full, updated CV and a cover letter that addresses the required skills and experience. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
It is extremely important that you possess these behavioural competencies to fit with our culture at GSS and BMMI:
• Strong ethics and personal integrity
• Customer service focus
• Excellent communication and networking skills
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Taking initiative and is proactivity
• Strong collaboration and team working skills
• Focus on performance management
• Thinking strategically
Desired Experience:
• A minimum of four years’ work experience in managing an accounting/finance function of a medium sized service organisation
• Experience in the catering and hospitality sector, ideally in remote sites and difficult environments, where little or no modern support infrastructure is available
• Experience of working in Francophone African countries
Education:
• A Bachelor’s degree in commerce and/ or accounting
• Professional qualification in accounting like CA/CPA/CIMA/ACCA
Knowledge:
• Company and finance divisional policies, procedures & objectives
• Knowledge of tax laws or the ability to rapidly acquire the knowledge of local tax laws
• Knowledge of OHADA/ IFRS financial reporting guidelines
Skills:
• Highly numerate and methodical, with good attention to detail
• Analytical and able to conduct thorough investigations
• Appropriate and accurate consolidation of financial information
• Preparation of meaningful and accurate reports
• Strategic thinking
• Negotiation abilities
• PC proficiency in Ms Office and related internal systems
• Written and spoken skills in French and English
About this Company
BMMI operates across industries and continents distributing food, beverages and household goods, providing end-to-end supply chain solutions, and delivering contract-based consumable and non-consumable products to governments, NGOs and commercial customers.
With a multicultural workforce representing over 40 different nationalities, BMMI manages its activities through establishing strategic branches, associates and joint ventures in Bahrain, Iraq, Qatar, Djibouti, Ghana, Gabon, Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya and Saudi Arabia. Refer to our websites for more information: