Les missions du poste
Reporting to the Group CFO (AGL) & SCA Management. The Finance Manager will act as a key business partner to management, contributing directly to decision-making, performance optimization, and value creation across the alliance to support the growth of Supply Chain Alliance (SCA).
Key Responsibilities
1. Strategic Finance Business Partnering
- Act as a trusted advisor to SCA leadership on financial performance, profitability, and risk
- Support commercial teams in structuring trade deals, evaluating margins and risk/return profiles, optimizing pricing and working capital
- Provide financial insights to support strategic expansion across Africa
- Contribute to investment cases, business plans, and Board-level reporting
Trade Finance & Risk Management
- Oversee end-to-end trade finance processes including Letters of Credit (LCs), guarantees, documentary collections and structured trade finance solutions
- Monitor and manage: FX exposure, commodity price exposure, counterparty risk
- Ensure robust hedging strategies and risk mitigation frameworks
- Liaise with banks and financial institutions on funding structures
3. Treasury & Working Capital Optimization
- Manage cash flow across complex trade cycles (origin warehouse client)
- Optimize inventory financing, receivables and payables, liquidity across multiple jurisdictions
- Drive efficient use of equity and debt financing
- Support funding strategies aligned with business growth
4.Financial Planning, Analysis & Performance Management
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning
- Develop advanced: profitability analysis (by country, product, client) & margin tracking for VMI/PMI models
- Track KPIs linked to volumes, pricing, logistics costs, working capital
- Provide clear, actionable reporting to senior stakeholders
5.Accounting, Reporting & Governance
- Oversee full accounting cycle: revenue recognition (including commodities/trade specifics), cost accounting, intercompany flows (CZ / AGL / SCA), reconciliations and closing processes
- Ensure compliance with: IFRS / local GAAP, tax and regulatory requirements across jurisdictions
- Produce high-quality monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports
6. Internal Controls & Compliance Framework
- Build and implement robust internal control environment suited to a scale-up
- Ensure compliance with internal policies, banking covenants, and trade finance regulations
- Manage audit processes (internal and external)
- Establish governance aligned with both CZ and AGL standards
7. Process Building & Scalability
- Design and implement scalable financial processes for a growing multi-country operation
- Improve systems, tools, and reporting automation
- Support ERP / finance system enhancements where required
- Ensure process standardization and efficiency across geographies
8. Leadership & Team Development
-Build, mentor and develop a high-performing finance team
Le profil recherché
- Professional certification advantageous.
- Minimum 8 to 10 years' experience in senior finance or accounting roles preferable in
banking, trade finance or corporate finance.
- Strong knowledge of trade finance instruments, corporate accounting and tax
regulations.
- Proficiency in accounting and financial software and advanced excel skills
- Excellent analytical, strategic planning, leadership and communication skills
- Knowledge of foreign exchange, commodity pricing and cross border regulations
advantageous
Strong knowledge of:
- trade finance instruments,
- IFRS and financial reporting,
- treasury and cash management,
- cross-border taxation and regulatory environments.
- Good understanding of:
- FX markets and hedging,
- commodity trading mechanics,
- supply chain financing.
- Advanced Excel skills and familiarity with ERP/reporting tools.
- Strategic thinking with strong commercial acumen
- Ability to balance risk and growth
- Strong decision-making and problem-solving capability
- Excellent stakeholder management (internal & external, including banks)
- High level of autonomy and ownership
- Entrepreneurial mindset (start-up mentality within structured environment)
- Highly driven, results-oriented, and resilient
- Strong integrity and accountability
- Ability to operate in complex, multi-country environments
- Adaptability and agility in evolving contexts
- Strong communication and influencing skills
Bienvenue chez AGL Group
Thanks to its expertise developed over more than a century and to more than 23,000 employees in 49 countries, AGL provides its African and global customers with global, tailor-made and innovative logistics solutions, with the ambition of contributing to the transformation of Africa in a sustainable way.
AGL is also present in Haiti and Timor.
Are you looking for a rewarding experience in an international environment? Do you want to make an impact in a company that puts Africa at the heart of its project?
Publiée le 03/06/2026 - Réf : 2026-9941