Vacancies at Lafarge Africa Plc
Lafarge Africa Plc is a member of the LafargeHolcim Group – the biggest building and concrete solutions company in the world. It is a publicly quoted company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and serves Nigeria with a wide range of building and construction solutions designed to meet housing and construction needs from small projects like individual home buildings to major construction and infrastructure projects.
Requisition ID: 8849
Location: Nigeria
About the Job
- The role involves developing and implementing a community relations and public affairs plan to promote the organization’s work and support its lobbying and campaigning objectives.
- It also includes providing high-quality public relations services to raise the organization’s profile, promote its goals and activities, and build and maintain relationships with both internal and external stakeholders to foster a positive reputation.
Responsibilities
What you’ll be doing:
- Ensure compliance of terms of Memoranda of Understanding, Community Development Agreements and other legal documents that guide the relationship between LAP and its communities.
- Organize,implement and document monthly community events and other stakeholder engagement platforms.
- Ensure prompt and effective dissemination of information through approved channels of communication: correspondences, newsletters etc
- Facilitate and ensure the implementation of community development CSR programs as approved on an annual basis while ensuring the monthly and yearly reporting of same across required LH platforms.
- Coordinate with Communications & Public Affairs Manager various sustainability programs as required.
- Design calendar of events targeted at the Community yearly while ensuring compliance to all timeframe for various community events.
- Work with location volunteering champions for the effective implementation of annual volunteering programs across locations
- Community Relations Executive would from time to time also be the mouthpiece for an organization should there be need for a community briefing as approved by all relevant internal stakeholders
- To assist the Communications & Public Affairs Manager and other organisational representatives to pursue lobbying, policy and campaigning work and objectives with Host Communities.
- Ensure accountability and transparency in all related transactions
- To draft policy briefings and consultation responses for internal and external use.
- Monitor and conduct intelligence activities on community activities which impact on LAP’s business
- To participate in staff training, organisation/team meetings and events, as required.
- To comply with the organisation’s health and safety, confidentiality, data protection and other policies.
- To promote equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practices.
- Develop a monthly community issues log to highlight risks, mitigations and action plans
- Any other duties deemed appropriate by the Head of Public Affairs, subject to time and commensurate with level of responsibility and salary.
- Develop and maintain relationship with local government and other relevant stakeholders such as traditional rulers and their councils, NGOs etc
- Analyze and maintain comprehensive knowledge of local issues and local CSR demands such as bills, laws etc.
- Ensure optimal level of customer satisfaction for all community requests.
- Provide, monitor and control financial budget to all key community issues.
Who you’ll be working with:
- Human Dimension: Reporting to Communications & Public Affairs Manager with dotted line to Plant Manager
- Organizational Dimension: Ability to engage, monitor, network and resolve conflicts at community level and provide advice to as directed by the Communications & Public Affairs Manager and Plant Manager
Job Dimesions
Key Interfaces, Stakeholders and Relationships:
- Communications, Public Affairs & Sustainable Development Director
- Head, Corporate Brand & Sustainable Development
- Head Public Affairs
- Head, Corporate Communications
- Communications & Public Affairs Manager
- Senior management team
- Politicians, parliamentarians and government officials
- The public and private sector
Requirements
Level of education/qualifications normally required:
- Educated to Degree level or equivalent experience that demonstrates ability.
- Experience of working in a senior PR or public affairs role.
- A proven track record of achievement in the field of PR or public affairs.
Technical / Functional Skills:
- Excellent communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to lead, motivate and manage staff.
- Ability to produce high quality written reports on information and publishing for internal management purposes and for trustees.
- Good IT skills and computer literacy.
- Flexible approach to work and highly organised working practices.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Ability to plan, execute and evaluate social media campaigns.
Behavioral competence:
- A commitment to developing good relationships
- High level of integrity
- An understanding of the value of good information and support services.
- A commitment to equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practices.
Application Deadline: Not Specified.
How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should use the link below to apply:
Job Title: Corporate Treasury and Trade Manager
Requisition ID: 8855
Location: Nigeria
About the Job
- The role ensures the efficient and coordinated performance of treasury operations across Lafarge Africa Plc, including Ashaka and Readymix, by overseeing administration, analysis, and execution throughout Nigeria.
- Key responsibilities include implementing internal control standards, ensuring compliance with Central Bank of Nigeria FX manual guidelines for trade and FX transactions, and adhering to Lafarge Group policies.
- Additionally, the role involves actively shadowing the Head of Corporate Finance & Treasury and managing cash and financial services to align with the company’s objectives.
Responsibilities
Treasury Management:
- Prepare weekly Treasury Journals and send to Head, Corp Finance and Treasury for review
- Ensure prompt reconciliation of all corporate credit and prepaid cards
- Investment Management (Roll-Overs and Initiation on all companies investments)
- Credit line Facility Management (Pricing monitored in line with market realities, Roll-Overs, and Initiation on all Company Credit facilities )
- Full responsibility and participation in the Company financing
- Ensure all financing document are kept securely
- Engage banks consistently on Treasury activities improvement.
Administration of Treasury Operations:
- Monitor and report cash balances daily to Head of CF&T for decision making
- Manage cash flow through FT as need arises
- Perform daily reconciliation of auto-stream of payments from Cash collection portal(ISW) into SAP and follow through on resolution of all exceptions within 24hours
- Confirm and ensure all Posting are done for all manual payments on SAP
- Liaise with the Accounts Payable team and ensure all suppliers/contractors payments are prepared in line with the Company’s payment terms.
- Seek approval for all such payments and release duly approved payment to the banks via Auto Pay portal or manually as the case maybe
- Coordinates between the banks and the AP team for all suppliers/bank- payment related issues and resolve within 24hours.
- Processing of all invisible transactions & remittances and Interfaces with Procurement Team, Legal & Regulatory & Banks on NOTAP approvals and remittance of same.
- Supervise Treasury operations team members
Trade Services Management:
- Monitor and ensure all Trade facilities with various Banks are within limit and priced according to competitive market realities
- Collaborate with Banks to secure FX from the Central Bank of Nigeria to settle LCs and Foreign OTT payments
- Interface with banks, legal and procurement teams on LC documents, contracts onadvance payments, bonds etc on Letters of Credit
- Ensure monthly reconciliation with Banks are done on all processed LC payments, FX purchases and advances to vendors.
- Ensure that Banks send in their Trade monthly report giving a view of all trade transactions with them and their corresponding status which should be in alignment with our Books and internal ledgers. Banks send quarterly audit confirmation letter to that effect
- Manage all Letter of Credits (LC) request to Suppliers
- Manage all Other Telegraphic Transfer requests (OTT) payment requests to Suppliers
- Support to Procurement Team on all Trade transactions to review payment terms to suppliers in line with International UCP 600 and ISBP standards
- Ensure timely delivery Shipping documents and Pre Arrival Assessment Documents are sent on time to Shipping team to avoid delays and demurrage
- Monitor and ensure Bank’s compliance on Service level Agreement for timely processing of Trade transactions
- Supervise Trade Services team members.
Administration of Trade Services Operation:
- Timely Processing of all foreign OTT payments in line with policy documents within 24hrs of receipt.
- Prompt Processing of Letters of Credit within 24hrs.
- Ensure prompt Opening and registration of all Form Ms on the Nigerian Customs Single Window.
- Ensure all LC documentation are finalized within stipulated turnaround time and agreed service level agreement with Banks
- Review and agree LC drafts with suppliers before final transmission of the LCs
- Creating noted items for all processed LCs in SAP and Timely Posting in SAP of all Advance payments to vendors, short term loan, forwards, deposit for Import transactions to be done which is done daily as it occurs
- Review and approval of journals to GL team for Cash in Transit bookings for purchases, forwards, short term loans before they are booked
- Ensure Monthly Trade reports received from them Bank are reconciled against the internal ledgers and they are in alignment
Reporting & Control:
- Ensure that treasury forms are raised for all foreign transactions and are forwarded to AP for processing into GL.
- Preparation of cash flow budget and forecast
- Recommend any process improvements and accounting treatments of transactions involving cash collection and payment to his/her N+1
Customer Relationship Management:
- Be the link between Finance department and Customer Service department on all customers’ payment-related (cash collection) issues.
- Ensure that all customer complaints in this regard are resolved effectively within 24 hours.
- Fully responsible for attending to all bank reconciliation issues relating to treasury operations and resolve within 48 hours
External Audit:
- Ensure that all Treasury related account schedules are prepared and submitted to the Head Corporate treasury and Finance for external audit purposes within the timeline specified.
- Ensure that audit circularization are delivered to the banks on time and that all discrepancies are reconciled.
- Ensure that all trade accounts and balances align with bank’s reported positions and deliver all requested Trade schedules within specified time lines.
Health & Safety:
- Ensure that Lafarge safety rules and standards are maintained at all times.
Job Dimensions
Key interfaces, stakeholders and relationships:
- Head, Finance Shared Services
- All payment initiating units, i.e. basically the whole organization
- Plant Control section of Finance
- Tax section of Finance
- Treasury section of Finance
- Internal Audit
- Suppliers
- Contractors
Requirements
Critical Experience/ Qualification:
- Candidates should possess a Bachelor’s Degree/ HND(Accounting / Social Sciences)
- ACA /, ACCA
- 8-10 years post NYSC working experience with minimum of 4years on similar role and in Managerial positions
Critical Knowledge:
- Good knowledge of an ERP environment – ideally SAP
- Understanding and correct application of VAT regulations with FIRS
- Understanding and correct application of WHT regulations with FIRS
- Internal controls
- Advance MS-Excel Knowledge
- Good presentation skills for educating external clients on company policies and procedures
- Good experience on treasury transactions (FX payments, letters of credit, hedging accounting, cash position reports).
Application Deadline: Not Specified.
How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should use the link below to apply:
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