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Monday, October 6, 2014

COUNTRY BUSINESS UNIT CONTROLLER WIND

Have you ever dreamed to be working for a large international player who is providing state-of-the-art clean energy equipment for a more sustainable future?  
   
Our client Wind business in South Africa has a Revenue of approx. 80m Euro/year, with a total project portfolio worth 700m Euro in Middle-East & Africa.  
   
Responsibilities:  
   
- Manages all commercial activities for Energy Wind Onshore in South Africa, with a view to the overall region of Africa and the Middle East.  
- Locally adopts respective guidelines and procedures in the Country organization of the BU assigned based on superior financial policies.  
- Governs the financial and commercial management of the assigned organization unit.  
- Manages the assigned Finance / Business Administration organization.  
- Responsible for commercial part and overall collaborates in the preparation and negotiation of complex bids or tenders for project business with international internal and external partners  
- Contributes to definition, and ensures implementation of superior financial strategy, policies and guidelines  
- Ensures effective financial analysis, planning and controlling activities, planning, monitoring and reviews of unit's budget and all related business administration activities  
- Oversees and ensures completion of all accounting and reporting, and other finance related operations, day-to-day controlling and financial analysis operations  
- Guides complete and timely elaboration of all necessary financial/commercial documents for the sales and bidding process, e.g. contract analysis, evaluation of risks, project selection, bid/no-bid decision, LoA.  
- Lead special projects and tasks within MEA region and overall business segment e.g. cross regional tools and processes, new market entries etc.  
- May coordinate risk and internal control management (incl. ERM, internal regulations).  
   
Requirements.  
   
- Minimum degree qualification, preferably Finance, Accounting or Controlling    
- 10 years total experience, with minimum five years managerial experience in the following areas.      
 -Involvement in tender processes for large industrial or power generation projects    
 -Projects Management (coordination with Sales, purchasing and other departments)    
 -Management of people, also remotely    
 -Experience in other countries is an advantage    
 -Specific Wind knowledge would be good but can be achieved on the job

BLAISE JACHOLKOWSKI
+27 21 200 5579