You will leverage your leadership and coaching skills together with deep expertise in financial accounting, strategies and analytics, to develop and lead a team of accountants to define, priorities and deliver financial planning and analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and internal control as well as compliance with government regulations within required/feasible timeframes.
You will also leverage on your technical expertise and critical thinking to provide meaningful insights and recommendations through quantitative and qualitative analysis to enable performance improvement plans to be implemented, influencing key decisions, and ensuring financial objectives are achieved.
Support Senior Management with financial analysis and modelling to develop short- and long-term strategies, as well as key performance indicators to achieve business initiatives and financial planning objectives.
Lead the completion of month-end activities including: balance sheet management, posting of manual adjustments and preparation of reporting packs, supporting team members to deliver high quality output so stakeholders can understand the key drivers of financial performance.
Work collaboratively with interdepartmental stakeholders, providing quality accounting analysis and timely advice to various business groups regarding the application of accounting policies, effectively communicating business risks and opportunities to key stakeholders.
Model best practice approaches and apply a continuous improvement mindset when developing forecasting and planning models, to continually improve and deliver consistently high-quality output, collaborating with others to share key insights and improve business outcomes.
Authentically engage with relevant business partners, using strong decision-making skills to effectively priorities and assess business proposals to support sound commercial decisions and profitable growth.
Gather relevant sources of information to provide in-depth analysis, interpretation and explanation of major business and financial/economic drivers and present to key stakeholders.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Proven and extensive financial control experience from the EMEA region
Tertiary degree in accounting and/or finance
CA/CPA qualified
Strong technical accounting and data analysis background
Proven experience leading forecasting and budgeting