As a Finance Manager, you will ensure robust financial governance, compliance, and strategic financial management in a multi-entity environment. This role is designed for ambitious finance professionals with post-qualification, ready to step into a leadership role that blends technical excellence, process improvement, and business partnering.
Key Responsibilities:
Financial Governance & Compliance
- Lead and sign off on monthly closes, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
- Oversee statutory reporting, regulatory filings, and internal/external audits, acting as the primary liaison with auditors and regulatory bodies.
- Oversee contract governance, ensuring all legal and commercial approvals are secured prior to execution and that local contracts follow control policies.
- Collaborate with Legal and Tax teams on all compliance matters, including board duties, AGMs, and governmental reporting.
- Ensure compliance with labor law, consumer law, sanctions, and transfer pricing.
- Ensure timely and compliant statutory and tax filings, and manage tax audits as required.
- Owning the legal entity compliance for multiple entities by assessing dividends and adequacy of equity and cash reserves.
- Be a main contact for business operations questions around operating licenses, accreditation or local employment regulations.
- Be familiar with corporate tax topics around purchase, creation and mergers/demergers or liquidation.
- Ensure no breaches with bank covenants and that shareholder agreements and AOAs are followed.
- Own and manage Power of Attorney and approval matrices for the market, ensuring logs are maintained and renewals are tracked.
- Identify and escalate material issues, and potential future tax topics/concerns to the appropriate forum.
Business Partnering & Commercial Support
- Partner with head of FP&A to coordinate on business operations processes such as procurement, customer refunds and budget tracking.
- Drive the annual budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes for local entities and for certain operational cost centers.
- Collaborate with Payroll Operations and HR, demonstrating sound judgment and resourcefulness in navigating high-level employment considerations and ensuring overall compliance with local requirements.
Digital Transformation and Modernizing Compliance
- Keep apprised of market developments including sanctions, legislative changes, regulatory environment and cross-border compliance matters.
- Stay abreast of technical accounting topics that impact the external audit and ensure progress on resolving internal audit items.
- Support change management initiatives, ensuring successful adoption of new processes and systems.
- Leverage technology and best practices to enhance efficiency and control.
Essential Qualifications & Experience
- ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified (or equivalent).
- Circa 5 years' post-qualification experience, ideally with exposure to multinational clients or complex regulatory environments.
- Demonstrable experience in financial reporting, compliance, and process improvement.
- Strong understanding of IFRS/GAAP and local regulatory frameworks.
Key Skills & Attributes
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver to tight deadlines.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- High integrity, attention to detail, and a proactive approach to risk management and compliance.
- Advanced Excel and financial systems skills; experience with ERP systems is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated leadership and team development capabilities.
