Collaboration with Shared Service Centre

• Work with relevant Shared service centre teams to ensure accurate and timely input of all relevant month end close activities.
• Monitor KPIs to ensure service is within agreed levels. Work closely with Shared Service teams to address concerns and drive improvements to processes.

Process Support and Improvement

• Drive ongoing issue resolution and process improvement within the month end close processes.
• Provide key expertise to European finance improvement initiatives as required.

Data Quality

• Drive improvements in data quality to enhance reporting and improve month end processes.
• Act as the SME to ensure the data quality impact of any system changes is understood and addressed.

Governance and Compliance

• Ensure adherence to current Governance and Compliance frameworks including SOx, ensuring all relevant processes are up to date, compliant and documented.
• Work closely with Group Finance to understand and address impact of future changes.

Budgeting and Forecasting

The role already has some budgeting and forecasting responsibilities, and this is expected to grow in the future (within 6 months). Activities may include:

• Assist central FP&A team, who will coordinate budget events for the region from a Finance perspective, supporting them locally for GBH1 as required.
• Support business teams in preparation of their budgets e.g. guidance on accounting treatments.
• Ensure cost allocation methods are accurate and in line with central guidance.
• Review budgets for quality (phasing, granularity etc.). Challenge assumptions where appropriate.
• Identify root causes of previous budget variances to improve forecasting accuracy.
• Support central section of FP&A team to enhance financial understanding and exert greater budget control, e.g. by the wider roll-out of activity-based budgeting, risks and opportunities trackers etc.

Relationship Management

• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders as a recognized Finance process expert.

Team Management

• Manage and develop team members through effective objective setting, coaching and ongoing performance support.

Qualifications, skills and experience

Required

• Recognised professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Demonstrable experience within a financial control environment.
• Sound knowledge and application of IFRS accounting standards.
• Experience of managing activities delivered through a finance shared service provider.
• Experience of audit, risk management and compliance activities.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively and build credible working relationships with a range of stakeholders.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and achieve effective business outcomes across functions and teams.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership of activities and drive delivery to completion.
• Ability to organise and prioritise workloads, manage competing demands and deliver accurate work to demanding deadlines.

Desirable

• Experience of working within a European or other multi-cultural business environment.
• Experience of working effectively across international teams and adapting to different business and cultural environments.
• Experience of supporting process standardisation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Experience of Trintech Cadency, Hyperion, SAP S/4HANA and/or BOFC.

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