About this role...…
Monthly Management Reporting
- Accountable for a series of month-end operations including reconciliation, reporting and regional consolidation functions.
- Ensure transactions recorded are compliant with Group accounting policy and FRS 102 (“UK GAAP”) and local GAAP (largely IFRS).
- Review the work of other junior staff, performing detailed variance analysis and ensure timely and accurate monthly management reporting.
- Oversee the timely and accurate process of non-transactional R2R accounting processes
- Monitor and manage the timely and accurate accounting processes owned by the GFSSC. This includes all transactional, non-judgemental financial activity across core finance processes (Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Record to Report).
- Prepare and analyse financial statements and variance reports on a regular basis.
Regulatory Reporting (including Tax and Statutory Filings)
- Ensure compliance with statutory requirements in the APAC region, including finalisation and filing of statutory accounts.
- Ensure accurate filings of direct and indirect tax returns and setting up new tax registrations in multiple jurisdictions (with support and oversight from Group Tax), and compliance with other company secretarial filings and reporting requirements, aided by local country advisors as required.
Stakeholder Management
- Anticipate issues impacting regional finance processes, escalate and resolve effectively.
- Act as the key interface between regional finance teams and the GFSSC, ensuring GFSSC delivery to agreed KPIs and SLA and ensuring any deficiencies noted are communicated and dealt with in a timely manner.
- Work closely with finance business partners and stakeholders in the business and proactively support them in all finance functions proactively to enable them to make sound business decisions.
Finance Transformation / Finance Projects:
- Oversee the Microsoft D365 systems implementation in APAC (with support from group project team).
- Support in strengthening internal controls and enhancing accounting processes to accelerate close activities while maintaining accuracy and integrity in financial reporting.
- As Collinson is a dynamic business, and currently undergoing a significant transformation, the role will support other ad hoc finance and non-finance projects as required.
You might fit for the role if you have...…
- Able to interact confidently with senior stakeholders across multiple functions and occasionally other time-zones
- A qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA) from a big four or mid-sized national audit firm having progressed through to manager or senior manager level
- Minimum 8 years PQE within industry working in a large multinational organisation
- Strong in-depth technical accounting knowledge and experience (FRS102 & IFRS preferred)
- Excellent organisational and project management skills
- Experience with creating financial statements
- Experience with APAC countries’ direct and indirect tax regulatory reporting requirements
- Excellent accounting software user skills (Microsoft Dynamics and Tagetik desired)
- Have a focus on value creation
- Detail-oriented, ability to multi-task and prioritise tasks with strict deadlines
- Must be agile and comfortable working within a fast-moving environment
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with ability to influence and interpret financial information to provide insight
- High attention to detail, highly accurate, a self-starter, flexible, comfortable with change able to work to strict reporting requirements