Regional Finance Controller

Regional Finance Controller | Accra, Ghana | Permanent

Step into a senior regional leadership role with real influence across multiple African markets. This is an opportunity to shape financial strategy, governance, and performance in a complex, multi-country environment.

This role leads the finance function across the West Africa region, providing strategic oversight and a trusted business partnership to regional leadership. You will be responsible for ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and insightfulness of financial information across multiple countries, while driving performance, strengthening controls, and supporting growth initiatives. The position plays a key role in finance transformation, standardisation, and continuous improvement, balancing regional requirements with global frameworks.

The role is based in Accra and works closely with country finance teams, regional leadership, and global stakeholders to ensure consistent, high-quality financial management across the region.

The client is a well-established international organisation operating across multiple African markets, with a strong focus on operational excellence, governance, and sustainable growth. The business combines regional autonomy with global standards and offers exposure to senior decision-making in a complex, matrix environment.

What You’ll Do

• Provide financial oversight across multiple countries, ensuring accurate, timely, and reliable financial reporting

• Monitor regional financial performance, analyse key metrics, and drive improvement actions

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, and scenario planning across the region

• Establish and maintain strong internal controls, governance frameworks, and compliance standards

• Partner with internal and external auditors, ensuring audit readiness and follow-through

• Drive finance transformation initiatives and process standardisation

• Oversee risk management, treasury, cash management, and tax compliance in collaboration with group functions

• Develop, coach, and strengthen regional finance teams

What You Bring

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in a senior finance controller role, preferably within shipping or agency-based operations in Africa

• CA or equivalent professional qualification

• Strong knowledge of accounting standards, internal controls, tax, and transfer pricing

• Experience in principal and agency accounting environments

• Proven ability to lead change, implement new processes, and improve systems

• Strong stakeholder management skills within complex, matrix organisations

• Excellent communication skills in English; French is a strong advantage

• Demonstrated experience leading and developing diverse teams

What Success Looks Like

• Consistent, high-quality financial reporting across all countries

• Strong governance, controls, and audit outcomes

• Improved financial insight supporting better regional decision-making

• More efficient, standardised finance processes

• A capable, confident, and high-performing regional finance team