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SPECIFIC JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Financial business partnering
- Ensure the financial integrity of the Financial Statements, performing all tasks as set out in the GFS
- SLA master document including;
- Part of a team responsible for Month End closing to a strict timetable for Financials into HFM
- (Reporting system). Reporting scope includes P&L, Balance sheet, TWC metrics, Headcount, and other statistical requirements.
- Perform monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statement variance analysis.
- Provide financial reports to finance management (e.g. account analysis, balance sheet and income statement flux analysis, reconciliations, ad hoc analysis, etc.).
Balance Sheet
- Perform periodic financial close activities including journal entry preparation and account reconciliations including cash, prepaid expenses, fixed assets, and accrued expenses among others.
- Ownership of the balance sheet control reconciliations including investigation of reconciling items to clear in a timely manner.
- Regular financial & balance sheet reviews in conjunction with the Accounting Manager and Site management team.
P&L
- Perform and Analyze business reports for Bookings, Sales, and backlog.
- Preparation of daily and period flash reports.
- Monthly reconciliations
- Product group and End destination Reporting.
- Perform monthly cost center reporting including variation analysis (SG&A and CGS).
- Ensure high-quality deliverables are provided to all relevant partners within the agreed timescales.
- Deliver timely, comprehensive and quality management reporting including metrics.
- Maintain compliance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and internal CP&P.
- Researches and investigates accounting issues as required.
- Recommends and implements solutions.
- Part of a team responsible of Business Intelligence and Analytics:
- Create reports and predictive financial models to enable effective decision-making.
- Build and manage dashboards and metrics to identify key trends, risks and opportunities.
- With thorough data analysis, provide insightful and actionable metrics and recommendations on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
- Works with the Inbound Project team on the onboarding process to integrate new sites into GFS.
- Engagement with corporate/internal and external auditors for all local and Europe wide engagements.
Knowledge Management and training
- Contributes on the knowledge management within GFS and establishes standards and quality in the overall documentation efforts.
- Establishes a culture of learning and continues development and collaborates with operational teams.
- Supplies that training materials are defined, e-learning training are developed, an onboarding program is established and maintained.
Continuous improvement
- Support development of streamlined processes through automation or other efficiency gaining ways.
- Analyze Key Performance Indicators data, identify adverse trends and communicate these succinctly to management. Work closely with the regional teams and MSSC to identify and address root causes.
- Works with Systems accounting team as needed to implement process design changes or system updates.
Various
- Assist with finance projects including integrations as and when required.
- Occasional weekend/public holiday working is a requirement of the role.
- Willingness to travel (up to 5-10% of role).
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- University or equivalent degree in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration and/or Professional Accountancy Qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA etc.).
- Fluent English - language skills: verbal, reading, and writing. Other European languages are an advantage.
- Minimum 5 years work experience for a large multi-national organization.
- Experience working in a matrix structure would be of an advantage.
- Strong communication, interpersonal, and influencing skills in support of organizational change
- Knowledge of Oracle, SAP or Syteline together with HFM preferred.
- Sophisticated Microsoft Excel, POWER BI and PowerPoint skills.
- Flexible team player with ability to work in cross-functional teams and across varying groups and interpersonal levels
- Ability to work independently in a team environment, take ownership of the resolution of problems, be flexible and accountable, manage conflicting responsibilities, prioritize tasks, and consistently meet deadlines.
- High level of curiosity, approach of continuous improvement.
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