R2R Senior Specialist - Statutory

Support statutory process deliveries for internal and external stakeholders. This includes coordination and being the person in charge from interim to final audit, ensuring quality audit output and audited financial statements are completed on time. Understand financial, process, operation, and system objectives and visions for execution.
Support the business within a country with complex analysis, reporting, forecasts, etc. (typically very large to large revenue) and provide expert advice within a core FSC process/area/technology.

About the Role

Major accountabilities:

• Ensure the operational conversion of the Finance strategic goals within a dedicated area of the business and supervise the performance and development of a small team of FSC specialists.
• Ensure the integrity, viability, and interoperability of financial reporting processes (Actuals, Budgets, and Latest Estimates) and systems, including tax, inventory, corporate controls, and payment and purchasing data.
• Manage and operate the basic reporting processes for actuals and forecasts 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; ensure appropriate information is provided to relevant individuals and external bodies.
• Manage 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.
• Prepare ad-hoc and routine ‘accounting/management’ information and quality financial analysis in order to support global and organization’s requirements.

Key performance indicators:

• 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.
• University-level degree in Finance/Accounting or any related field.
• At least 8 years of relevant experience in finance-statutory reporting.
• Experience in significant process improvement projects, business modeling, and financial reporting and accounting processes.
• Functional breadth.
• Operations management and execution.

Skills:

• Building effective teams.
• Compliance and controls.
• Continuous process improvement.
• Critical thinking.
• Data management.
• Financial and management reporting.
• People development.
• Process optimization.
• Rapid problem solving.

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Functional Area: Audit & Finance

Job Type: Full time

Employment Type: Regular

Shift Work: No

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