Job Description

• Managing accounting records for international entities
• Ensuring accuracy of financial information, through maintaining appropriate controls, reports and processes
• Ensuring compliance with regulations, including preparing and submitting direct and indirect tax filings and other declarations or company secretarial matters
• Preparing and publishing consolidated financial statements to IFRS and local GAAP
• Overseeing accounting processes, ensuring regular and complete period close and reporting
• Analyzing financial data, supporting decision making
• Monitoring expenditure and approving purchases
• Coordinating auditing processes and statutory account production, being a primary relationship holder with the auditors in region
• Maintaining general ledger accounts for responsible entities
• Delivering an integral control environment that ensures completeness and accuracy of all inputs into the accounting records
• Supporting Head of Finance to maintain and develop financial processes to reflect and capture all business activities, projects and commercial ventures
• Collaborating with Finance Transformation to ensure optimized NetSuite processes
• Delivering regular financial reporting
• Partnering with stakeholders on the performance of their activities, driving performance growth in line with company strategy
• Managing and developing a team of accountants and financial assistants, providing clarity of roles and giving feedback
• Suggesting updates and improvements for accounting systems
• Supporting the transformation agenda
• Successfully on-boarding newly acquired businesses onto reporting platform
• Contributing to group finance initiatives

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Professional accountancy qualification e.g. ACA, CIMA or equivalent. 5+ years’ experience in a financial control environment with exposure to entire finance process lifecycle. Experience in managing financial control for multiple international entities. Experience in a finance change / transformation environment and automating manual processes. Experience in managing and developing a team, in different countries preferably. Experience working for a SaaS company preferable, but must have experience in working for a similar size company and ownership of similar revenues. NetSuite experience is desirable. Good business understanding and strong commercial sense. Excellent analytical and communication skills. Pragmatic, can-do attitude. Accurate and precise. Strong people management skills, ability to motivate and develop a team. Demonstrated ability to roll-up sleeves and work with team members in a hands-on environment. Good understanding of digitalization and automation in finance.