Job Summary

In this role, you will be responsible for leading and managing the delivery of global accounting activities for assigned entities. In addition, you will develop an understanding of our strategic business direction and play a key role in the future development of the function in order to meet the needs of a growing and changing business.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Manage the delivery of regional accounting activities for assigned region/entities, which includes:

• Perform timely month end, quarter end and year end closing activities; responsible for the close in accordance with US GAAP, including month-end close activities for revenue, cash, prepaids, tangible and intangible assets, accruals and debt
• Reviewing monthly/quarterly account reconciliations and other documents to ensure compliance
• Statutory reporting
• Processing of transactional taxes e.g. VAT
• Support annual tax compliance
• Liaison with financial planning team to understand changes in financial performance

People:

• Lead and mentor a team of professional accountants
• Focus on talent development, building a strong team
• Develop a customer-centric culture in your team with highly collaborative relationships with the relevant stakeholders

Control Environment:

• Ensure that company financial records are maintained in compliance with company policies and US GAAP and SEC reporting requirements
• Accountable for ensuring that company policies and procedures (internal controls) are implemented to provide reasonable assurance that the company assets are protected
• Support the Sarbanes Oxley activities relative to internal controls documentation and testing and segregation of duties
• Liaise with internal and external auditors

Process, Technology and Service:

• Report agreed key performance indicators
• Support deployment of SAP S/4 HANA and other systems e.g. Blackline to garner greater efficiency within the Record to Report function
• Support implementation of Artificial Intelligence and /or RPA to drive further efficiency and effectiveness in our delivery of accounting services
• Acquisitions: Support integration into financial operations

Education

• Bachelors degree or equivalent in Finance or Accounting

Work Experience

• Minimum 7+ years of PQE experience with a minimum of 3 years of management experience

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Public Accounting background
• Previous Shared Service Centre with multinational publicly quoted company experience
• Working knowledge of US GAAP
• Proficient in SAP or similar ERP and MS Office suite
• Experience of BI tools an advantage
• Demonstrated ability to form, lead and develop high-performing teams
• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• Project management, meeting facilitation, written/oral communication and presentation skills
• Able to comply with the company’s safety and quality policy at all times #LI-HYBRID #LI-JJ1

License and Certifications

• Qualified accountant i.e. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CPA required

Additional Requirements

• Use written and oral communication skills
• Read and interpret data, information and documents
• Must maintain the ability to work well with others in a variety of situations.
• Must be able to multi-task, work under time constraints, problem solve, and prioritize.
• Ability to make independent and sound judgments.
• Observe and interpret situations, analyze and solve problems

Travel Requirements

Physical Requirements

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