1. Finance Function Establishment & Leadership
• Take ownership of establishing and operating the Finance & Accounting function according to the approved organization structure and transformation plan.
• Set clear responsibilities, work allocation, review levels and accountability across the finance team.
• Build disciplined month-end routines, documentation standards, reconciliations and financial-control practices.
• Prioritize critical finance risks and stabilize the function progressively without disrupting ongoing business operations.
• Develop the finance team through coaching, review and practical on-the-job guidance.
2. General Ledger & Accounting Integrity
• Own the integrity, completeness and accuracy of the General Ledger and accounting records.
• Ensure journal entries are properly supported, reviewed, authorized and posted according to the approved Chart of Accounts and accounting policies.
• Review account reconciliations, supporting schedules and unusual balances and ensure timely resolution of identified issues.
• Maintain disciplined period closing procedures and ensure transactions are recorded in the appropriate accounting periods.
• Ensure the accounting structure remains consistent and controlled as the business and ERP environment develop.
3. Financial Statements, Closing & Statutory Reporting
• Lead monthly and year-end closing activities and ensure timely preparation of reliable financial statements.
• Review Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow outputs for consistency, completeness and reasonableness.
• Ensure major balances are supported by reconciliations, schedules and appropriate evidence.
• Coordinate statutory financial reporting requirements with external auditors and relevant advisors.
• Provide management with clear explanations of significant financial movements, risks and unresolved issues.
4. Legacy Data, Opening Balances & Financial Cleanup
• Lead the controlled review and validation of opening balances and legacy accounting information transferred into the new finance environment.
• Use original documents, reconciliations and reliable source evidence to validate financial data where historical systems or records cannot be fully relied upon.
• Investigate significant differences and identify root causes before deciding whether correction, reconstruction or other action is required.
• Document unresolved historical issues, financial risks and required corrective actions and escalate them appropriately.
• Prevent unverified historical data from contaminating the integrity of the new accounting environment.
5. ERP & Finance Systems Development
• Own Finance requirements and controls during the phased development of the ERP environment.
• Ensure the General Ledger is stabilized before supporting controlled activation and integration of additional ERP modules.
• Participate in ERP rehabilitation, data migration, mapping, testing, module activation and process-improvement projects.
• Validate that new modules and interfaces integrate correctly with the General Ledger and do not create duplication, conflicting records or uncontrolled entries.
• Ensure appropriate finance controls, approvals and audit trails are embedded in system implementation.
6. Internal Controls & Documentation
• Establish and enforce practical financial controls covering documentation, approvals, authorization, recording and reconciliation.
• Ensure financial transactions are supported by complete and valid documentation before accounting treatment is finalized.
• Identify control weaknesses and recurring documentation failures and recommend corrective actions.
• Coordinate with other departments to improve the quality and timeliness of documents and financial inputs received by Finance.
• Maintain appropriate segregation of duties and escalation mechanisms within the available organization structure.
7. Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Banks & Treasury Control
• Oversee accounting and control of customer, supplier and bank transactions and ensure regular reconciliations.
• Monitor significant receivable and payable balances, aging, overdue items and unusual transactions and escalate material risks.
• Maintain visibility over short-term cash requirements, commitments, bank facilities and liquidity risks.
• Support management in improving cash discipline, working-capital visibility and financing decisions.
• Coordinate with banks and relevant external parties within delegated authority.
8. Inventory & Costing Financial Control
• Ensure proper financial control and reconciliation of inventory balances between operational records, supporting documents and the General Ledger.
• Oversee the Inventory & Cost Controller from the Finance/Costing perspective and maintain independent financial control over inventory.
• Ensure inventory valuation, adjustments, write-offs and costing-related accounting treatments are properly supported and authorized.
• Work with Production, Warehouse and relevant functions to investigate material inventory or consumption variances without assuming operational ownership of warehouse activities.
• Support the progressive development of a reliable costing environment as accurate operational data and dedicated costing capability become available.
9. Budgeting & Financial Planning
• Oversee the budgeting and financial-planning process in coordination with the Budget Controller and department managers.
• Challenge assumptions, validate financial logic and ensure consistency between budget figures and operational inputs.
• Review budget-versus-actual results and ensure significant variances are investigated and communicated.
• Support management with financial scenarios, forecasts and decision-relevant analysis where reliable data is available.
• Ensure budgeting develops as a management-control process rather than a stand-