Finance Manager

Key Responsibilities
• Manage accounting delivery for assigned clients, entities, or process towers, covering GL, R2R, AP, O2C, FP&A support, and month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities.
• Coordinate the preparation and review of reporting packs for statutory and management reporting, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and alignment with client timelines.
• Monitor service delivery performance against agreed service levels, quality expectations, compliance requirements, and issue-resolution timelines.
• Review journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, prepayments, intercompany balances, variance explanations, and supporting schedules before senior-level approval where required.
• Apply IFRS, US GAAP, IPSAS, local statutory rules, and client accounting policies to routine and moderately complex accounting matters, escalating judgmental items appropriately.
• Act as an escalation point for delivery issues, process bottlenecks, unresolved exceptions, and client concerns, ensuring clear ownership and timely follow-up.
• Lead and coach team members, including planning workloads, setting priorities, reviewing outputs, supporting development, and contributing to performance management discussions.
• Partner with client controllers, finance managers, and process owners to explain close status, open items, balance sheet movements, process risks, and improvement actions.
• Drive standardization of process steps, templates, reconciliations, working papers, checklists, and reporting routines across assigned clients or entities.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities, including workflow simplification, automation candidates, root-cause elimination, and KPI-based performance tracking.
• Maintain process documentation, SOPs, control evidence, decision logs, and issue trackers to support governance, audit readiness, and knowledge continuity.
• Support internal, external, tax, and statutory audits by coordinating requested schedules, resolving queries, tracking findings, and helping remediate control gaps.
• Support transitions, onboarding, and stabilization for new entities or scope expansions through knowledge transfer, shadowing plans, cutover tracking, and readiness reviews.
• Collaborate with procurement, payroll, tax, treasury, IT, business, and transformation teams to resolve cross-functional dependencies affecting finance delivery.
• Track capacity, utilization, handover risks, and delivery economics for the assigned team, raising resource or scalability concerns with senior management.

Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field; CPA, ACCA, CMA, or equivalent qualification is preferred.
• 8–12 years of progressive accounting or finance experience, including meaningful exposure to shared services, BPO, professional services, or multinational environments.
• Experience leading small to mid-sized teams and coordinating work across multiple clients, entities, countries, or process areas.
• Strong working knowledge of financial close, reconciliations, balance sheet governance, management reporting, and statutory reporting support.
• Good knowledge of IFRS and/or US GAAP, with the ability to research, interpret, and apply client policies to practical accounting scenarios.
• Hands-on experience with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics/AX, or similar platforms.
• Advanced Excel capability and practical experience with reporting, workflow, BI, or automation tools is an advantage.
• Experience gained within a Big Four or other reputable audit/advisory firm is highly desirable and will be considered a strong plus, particularly where it includes exposure to financial reporting, statutory audits, internal controls, and multi-entity environments.

•German language proficiency is a plus.

• Demonstrated ability to improve processes, strengthen controls, manage priorities, and communicate effectively with client and internal stakeholders.
Key Competencies • Team leadership and coaching • Client-service ownership • Financial controllership discipline • Issue management and escalation • Delivery excellence mindset • Process documentation and governance • Analytical review and judgment • Stakeholder communication • Continuous improvement • Adaptability in a regional delivery model

Suggested reporting line: This role typically reports into the next senior level within Finance & Accounting Delivery, adjusted based on client portfolio size and operating model.