Finance Controller

Date: 23 Feb 2026

Country: Mozambique

Function: Finance

Sub-Function: Finance - Common

Olam Agri is a market leading, differentiated food, feed and fibre agri-business with a global origination footprint, processing capabilities and deep understanding of market needs built over 35 years. With a strong presence in high-growth emerging markets and products across grains & oilseeds, wheat milling & pasta, rice, edible oils, specialty grains & seeds, animal feed & protein, cotton, wood products, rubber, sugar & bioenergy and risk management solutions, Olam Agri is at the heart of global food and agri-trade flows with 45.1 million MT in volume handled in 2024. Focused on transforming food, feed and fibre for a more sustainable future, it aims at creating value for customers, enable farming communities to prosper sustainably and strive for a food-secure future. Olam Agri Holdings Limited, which holds the Olam Agri business, is a 64.6% owned subsidiary of Olam Group. 35.4% of Olam Agri Holdings is owned by SALIC International Investment Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Olam Agri’s strategic partner The Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Company.

Job Description

Finance is a contemporary and forward-looking function that is driving value by being a world-class partner to our business. As a Finance Controller you will partner with the business unit in the country (Business Head, Sales & Functional leads) to ensure P&L transparency & accuracy and to drive the business towards targets & operational KPIs achievement. As successful candidate you will be able to demonstrate ability to link business decisions to financial impacts.

Key Attributes

Controllership: You are a controller that ensures accurate, efficient and timely delivery of relevant reports.
Performance Officer: You help us to be on track with robust and timely performance tracking. You will ensure budgetary process improvements and achieve better predictability on outcomes.
Value Manager: You also ensure & support value maximization initiatives (interest, Trade Finance etc.)
Co-Strategist: You are our strategist, you help in dept value-added decision support through superior data analytics and help us drive special projects to growth. Ensure and support value maximization initiatives (Interest, Trade Finance etc.)

Impact Areas

Business Financial Insights – Your in-depth knowledge on financial/management accounting principles will help us to accurately reflect the business performance.

Financial & Management Accounting
Financial Impact on Strategy Execution
Business/ Country Economics & Regulations

Controls, Compliance & Assurance – Your ability to evaluate risks and determining their impact on the management audit, developing and/or modifying audit procedures as required. You ensure compliances to legal and secretarial requirements as well as functioning within the norms of statutory audit regulations respective to country/ business.

Internal Controls
Compliance Measures
Measure & Assurance

Reporting & process efficiencies – The finance controller demonstrates conceptual ability to ideate and implement robust systems & processes suited to business/ country. You also display accuracy and efficiency in MIS reporting, budgeting.

Capability Building: Build capability in finance function, growing finance leadership pipeline and ensuring effective knowledge & expertise transfer for effective execution of finance strategies

Personal Credibility & Thought Leadership
Building Functional Capability

Job Requirements

Experience:

Extensive experience (typically 10+ years) in financial control, finance and accounts, business finance, supply chain finance with a proven track record.
Specific experiences/ requirements:
Plant accounting and finance
Manufacturing accounting and finance.

Skills and Competencies:

Good negotiating skills and interpersonal skills.
Robust attention to detail.
Strong commercial, problem-solving ability and creative thinking.
Collaborative and team oriented.
Business partnering and stakeholder management.

Education:

Charted accountant with 10+ years of post-qualification work experience.

Olam Agri is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, nationality, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Applicants are requested to complete all required steps in the application process including providing a resume/CV in order to be considered for open roles.