the client is an expanding organization in the energy sector and is seeking a Financial Controller to support a challenging business initiative. The role focuses on financial control and performance management for a trading business, with responsibilities that include designing and monitoring monthly management reporting, results, margins, exposure, and overall business performance.
Key duties include monitoring compliance with the budget and monthly OTL, tracking defined KPIs, and identifying variances, their underlying causes, risks, and opportunities. The position also involves analyzing profitability by operation, customer, or contract as applicable, and contributing to process improvements with an emphasis on automating reporting and defining business and financial indicators.
In addition to performance reporting, the Financial Controller will participate in monthly closing processes, including accounting entries, estimates, provisions, reconciliations, and validation of trading results. Responsibilities include analyzing material balance sheet and account activity tied to trading operations, assessing hedging activities under IFRS, ensuring data integrity and traceability across contracts, volumes, prices, inventories, and results, and preparing supporting information for internal and external audits and control reviews. The successful applicant is expected to have a degree in accounting (public accountant), ideally with postgraduate studies; at least five years of experience in trading of crude oil or comparable environments with significant price volatility; strong knowledge of closing processes, budgeting, and variance analysis; solid accounting expertise with a focus on hedging; advanced Excel and data visualization tools; advanced SAP skills; and intermediate to advanced English.