Major accountabilities:

• Ensure the operational conversion of the Finance strategic goals within a dedicated area of the business & supervise the performance and development of a team of FRA specialists.
• Ensures the integrity, viability, and interoperability of financial reporting processes and systems, including tax, inventory, corporate controls, and payment and purchasing data.
• Manage and operate the reporting processes in FCRS to agreed quality and fast close timeline.
• Provide financial accounting services and data in a timely and accurate manner, including fixed assets, cash activities and divestment activities; ensures appropriate information is provided to relevant individuals and external bodies.
• Support audit reporting processes and support compliance for various tax related reports (i.e.: VAT, corporate tax, employee tax); provide necessary data to internal and external authorities.
• Manage and automate the provision of routine information to local users from SAP and BW, and perform ‘super user’ responsibilities for Finance and Controlling modules in SAP.
• Supervise the development and maintenance of current reporting systems (SAP, BW, Excel); integrate other requirements and the changing needs of the organization so that processes to report actuals, budgets, latest estimates and mid-range plans are met cost effectively and responsively.
• Prepares ad-hoc and routine ‘accounting / management’ information and quality financial analysis in order to support global and organization’s requirements.
• Contribute to key projects at global, country or BU level.

Key performance indicators:

• Achieve services excellence and Internal customer satisfaction with quality, appropriateness, and timeliness of financial analyses provided
• Customer satisfaction of service delivery and process specific KPIs in accordance with agreed SLAs
• Minimum Requirements: Work Experience:

• University level degree Finance/Accounting or any related field.
• Fluent in English both written and spoken, excellent communication skills. Other languages are a plus.
• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience, with good functional exposure to finance processes (R2R, Financial Compliance and Control, Management Reporting, Technical Accounting). Previous experience within financial shared service centers is desirable.
• Strong track record in fostering a robust control environment
• Conceptual thinking and ability to align specific functional requirements with the overall finance strategy.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a multi-national organization.
• Previous experience working in projects to drive performance improvements with good track of stakeholder management skills.

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Languages :

• English.