Position Title: Commercial Controllership Leader
Job Number: 2191528
Business: GE Healthcare
Business Segment: Healthcare Finance
Career Level: Experienced
Function: Finance
Function Segment: Controllership
Location: Johannesburg, Cairo, Algiers, Nairobi, Accra, Lagos,
Postal Code: 01685
Relocation Assistance: No
Role Summary/Purpose:
The Commercial Controllership Leader provides guidance to both finance and operations leaders for a specialist area within controllership, and/or support to Africa regional controller as well as to Senior Assistant controller.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Ensuring that Terms and Conditions of GEHC Sales Contracts don’t impose any risks, liabilities those are not approved (Policy 5.0),
- Monitoring and increasing the effectiveness of the controls for the T&C reviews and their approvals
- Working with the Commercial Teams to pro-actively assess and manage the risks of the existing contracts’ backlog (Policy 6.0)
- Coordinating with the EAGM and the Global Teams in the areas of Commercial Contracting
- Partnering with the regions to create Dashboards to monitor the Contractual Risks in Afr?ca
- Standardization of the Accounting of the Contractual Obligations for consistency on the Financial Statements
- Working with the local finance teams, HR and Commercial Teams to account properly for the Variable Compensation Plans
- Standardizing and monitoring the accounting of Commercial Reserves accross the legal entities considering the applicable policies
- Working with internal and external auditors to address to the issues in the area commercial controllership
- Participate and provide input into GE Healthcare simplification initiatives
- Identify potential risks & opportunities & and communicate effectively
- Interpret finance risks & opportunities to local circumstances & present workable solutions
Job Requirements
Required Experience: 7-10 year(s)
Desired Courses: Accounting, Finance
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Bachelors degree in accounting, finance, or other business related field and minimum 8-10 years progressive accounting or finance experience
- Demonstrated proficiency in U.S. GAAP and local GAAP
- CPA / CA or GE Corporate Audit Staff
- Familiarity with Oracle, SAP or any other ERP systems
- Experience working in a global business environment with sound understanding of global process and transactional flows
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate complex business issues in a clear/concise manner
- Strong analytical skills: able to clearly link financial results to operational performance drivers, generate alternatives and drive positive change
- Ability to work with databases in order to pull the required details,
- Clear thinking/problem solving: successfully led projects/process improvements within operations/finance functions; able to quickly grasp new ideas
- Adaptable/Flexible: being open to change in response to new information, different or unexpected circumstances, and/or to work in ambiguous situations
- Integrity: accepting and adhering to high moral, ethical, and personal values in decisions, communications, actions and when dealing with others
- Confidence/Assertiveness: strong influencing skills
- Experience working in a matrixed environment
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