Role Overview
We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join us as a Finance Manager to work in a truly global environment to play a pivotal role in ensuring robust financial control, compliance and insightful reporting, reporting to the Financial Controller. This position offers an excellent opportunity to grow professionally within an international business environment.
Business Overview
Volcafe Ltd is one of the world’s leading international green coffee trading companies, operating in over 20 countries globally. Our expertise spans green coffee procurement and preparation, sustainability, blending, quality control, risk management and export as well as importing and distribution. We supply the world’s major coffee roasters and retail distributors with their green coffee requirements, with significant strategic growth ambitions for the future. We are part of ED&F Man Commodities, a world leading trader of agricultural products including coffee, sugar, molasses and animal feed.
Volcafe works across the whole green coffee supply chain to make coffee business better, together with our partners and employees. We have built and operate sustainable coffee supply chains across all our origins, addressing key economic, social and environmental issues in coffee farming communities. Our Volcafe Way farmer support programme engages with thousands of coffee farmers and provides a holistic response to the challenges they face.
Key Accountabilities
- Oversee detailed accounting control and monthly closing processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
- Assist in preparing internal management reports and external financial statements, providing support during annual financial audits.
- Assist in the annual budget preparation, ensuring full accuracy and timely submission.
- Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders, providing financial reports with business data & offering strategic financial insights and guidance.
- Continuously enhance financial procedures and internal controls to streamline operations and ensure compliance.
- Cooperate in the preparation of local statutory accounts, and local GAAP accounting activities.
- Prepare weekly cash forecast, monitor cash usage levels and anticipate any potential breach of limits.
- Manage and support day-to-day tax compliance and reporting requirements, especially in VAT and international trade transactions.
- Manage local tax periodic calculation and submission, supporting annual transfer pricing documentation.
- Maintain the risk database to identify risk limits, insurance limits and currency exposure and analysing counterparties financial statements.
Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and Spanish.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in financial management, accounting, or audit roles, preferably within an international company.
- Experience in commodities trading environments, particularly in commodity trading is advantageous.
- Strong knowledge of accounting principles including IFRS and US GAAP alongside knowledge related to futures and Forex transactions.
- Advanced proficiency in financial ERP systems, especially in Microsoft Office, Excel and Power BI.
- In-depth understanding of taxation (VAT of international trade transactions).
- Demonstrate communication and negotiation skills with a range of stakeholders including clients, suppliers, financial institutions, wider Madrid based team and auditors.
- Knowledge of financial risk management practices, treasury operations and cash management and understanding of internal audit procedures and controls is advantageous.
- Excellent analytical capabilities, attention to detail, and organizational skills.
- Ability to work independently with a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.
We recognise that talent comes in many forms, and we value potential just as much as experience. If this role excites you but you don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.
Our Offer
We provide a fast-paced, stimulating and truly global environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the global leaders in soft commodity trading.
Our Values
Respect, Integrity, Meritocracy, Client Focus, Entrepreneurship
Our values define who we are. They are the fundamental beliefs that determine our actions and guide our behaviour. They influence the way we communicate and collaborate, and define the way we engage with our clients, partners, and communities. Our values are underpinned by a set of essential behaviours, which form part of our performance management approach. Delivering on our objectives is very much about ‘what’ we do, but these essential behaviours also provide a guide and measure for ‘how’ we do things. Our performance essentials are Take Initiative, Self‐Management, Deliver Results and Collaboration.
Our Commitment
We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and are focussed on actively building and developing diverse teams. All qualified applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to race, colour, sex, gender, age, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital or civil partner status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment (identity, gender expression), genetic information or any characteristic protected by local law.
