Manager, Finance & Accounts

Job Summary: (brief 2-3 sentence overall description, detail should be in Essential Duties and Responsibilities)

Prepares timely and accurate financial reporting for a particular group of clients.

Prepares client budgets and forecasts.

Participates in identifying, analyzing, and understanding the potential financial impact from various business issues, opportunities and decisions.

May supervise a team of analysts. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: (Each section below should contain name of a key duty, then list the associate responsibilities.)

Target Achievement:

Financial:

• Support Finance department budget targets

• Support internal customers by identifying areas to increase ebitda

• Provide variance analysis to assist internal customers in decision making

Non-Financial

• Manage Finance team

• Support departmental and regional organizational goals

• Manage the annual budget process for internal clients

• Manage the monthly forecast process for internal clients

Budget Process

• Build a bottoms up annual budget with input from internal clients

• Support the Director Finance during the annual budget reviews

• Provide monthly analysis of actuals vs. budget for internals clients

Forecast Process

• Starting with budget, build monthly forecasts with input from internal clients

• Support Director Finance during 2 global forecast reviews

• Provide monthly analysis of actuals vs. forecast for internal clients

Variance Analysis

• Assist Finance Director in preparing monthly flash reports

• Assist Finance Director in preparing bridges for actuals vs. forecast

• Provide adhoc variance analysis and research for Finance Director

Leadership

• Support team goals annually and monitor quarterly to ensure achievement

• Coach and mentor staff

• Perform annual performance evaluations and monitor discuss quarterly

Other:

• This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required for this position.  The employee may be asked to perform other duties and responsibilities, as necessary.

Essential Job Functions: (Required for US-optional for other countries)

• Must be able to come to work promptly and regularly
• Must be able to take direction and work well with others
• Must be able to work under the stress of and meet deadlines
• Must be able to concentrate and perform accurately while meeting applicable productivity measures
• Must be able to change productively and to handle other tasks as assigned

Key Contacts / Relationships:  

Internal:

• Director Finance

• Internal Client VPs/Directors

External:

Education / Knowledge / Experience: (Subject to local laws and practices)

Essential:

•  Bachelor degree in accounting / finance, or equivalent experience

•  Minimum of seven (6) years of experience in accounting / finance

•  Proficiency with ERP, word processing and spreadsheets

Preferred:

• Certified Public Accounting certification preferred, but not required

• Accounting under IFRS (International Accounting Standards)

• Proficiency in PeopleSoft, ADS / Global MAX, and Microsoft Word, Excel

Essential Skills and Abilities:  (optional section if detailed above)

Physical and Mental Requirements:  (Required for US-optional for other countries)

The requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical:

• Requires an adequate range of body motion and mobility to enable the individual to perform the essential functions of the job.
• Requires ability to remain in a stationary position for prolonged periods of time throughout the workday.
• Requires ability to move about to access file cabinets, office equipment, etc.
• Requires ability to operate a computer, telecommunication’s devices and other office equipment for prolonged periods of time throughout the work day.
• Requires ability to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word.  Talking is important for those activities in which the employee must impart oral information to other employees, clients and customers, in person or via telephone, and in those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions and information to others accurately, clearly and quickly.
• Requires the ability to perceive the nature of sounds.  Hearing is important for those activities that require ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, in person or via telephone, and to make fine discriminations in sound.
• Requires clarity of near vision.  This factor is important when special and or minute accuracy is demanded and defective near acuity would adversely affect job performance and/or safety of self and others.
• Requires ability to work other shifts and weekends and in excess of 40 hours/week, as necessary.

Mental:

• Requires the ability to work and cooperate with other employees and clients at all levels and from diverse backgrounds to exchange ideas, information and opinions to facilitate the task at hand.

Travel: (for designated positions)

• Requires ability to travel by car, plane and train for prolonged periods of time domestically and internationally and to move and transport personal luggage.