A bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field, or equivalent education and/or work experience.
Five years of experience in a finance-related function.
Demonstrated ability to analyze and project the financial impact of multi-currency, multi-entity transactions on the general ledger.
Demonstrated success developing, implementing, measuring, and improving effective finance processes.
Advanced Microsoft Excel modeling skills using tools such as PivotTables, graphs, and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).
Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts.
Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills.
Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility.
Proficiency in a financial module of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Windows.
Availability to travel domestically and internationally less than 5% of the time, sometimes with limited notice.
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain a business unit finance function that provides accurate and timely financial information to support the commitments of an international, multi-entity, multi-currency business unit.
Design, develop, implement, manage, and measure the effectiveness of short-, medium-, and long-term financial planning and forecasting processes for the business unit.
Build and lead a team of committed and capable employees to deliver strategic and operational finance services aligned with business objectives.
Build complex financial models to analyze business unit financial performance and communicate results to business unit and executive management.
Develop business insights and key performance indicator dashboards to analyze strategic business performance.
Identify financial process improvements in collaboration with business unit leadership and recommend appropriate actions.
Measure and monitor productivity and cost-saving initiatives, and report results to appropriate management.
Prepare financial aspects of Mid-Range Plans and monthly forecasts for the business unit.
Prepare ad hoc financial models to evaluate the feasibility of potential strategic objectives.
Advise the business unit commercial team on risks and opportunities and review bid calculations when appropriate.
Recommend measures to improve business unit cash flow management and implement them as approved.
Advise business unit management on financial aspects of project execution.
Execute process-improvement and financial-system projects to improve overall business unit performance as instructed by business unit management.
Plan, assign, resource, and integrate team work; lead continuous improvement; own team outputs; and ensure team members fulfill functional and general employee accountabilities.
Provide managerial leadership through team working, fair treatment of direct reports, context setting, planning, task assignment, ongoing performance management, coaching, selection and orientation, and de-selection and dismissal.
Fulfill assigned work, advise the manager, provide early notice when work cannot be delivered as specified, collaborate with peers and cross-functional colleagues, comply with company policies and applicable laws, recommend viable improvements, and use business tools and processes effectively.
Desired Qualifications
Three years of experience managing a team to achieve business goals.
Certified Public Accountant (CPA) certification.
Experience in a business that measures results principally by project.
Experience in a foreign-owned business, preferably Japanese.
General Role Description
Develop and maintain a business unit (BU) finance function capable of providing accurate and timely financial information which will enable the international, multi-entity, multi-currency business unit to meet its business commitments
Role Accountabilities
· Design, develop, implement, manage, and measure the effectiveness of short, medium, and long-term financial planning and forecasting processes for the BU
· Build and lead a team of committed and capable employees to ensure successful delivery of strategic and operational finance services aligned with business objectives
· Build complex financial models to analyze the BU’s financial performance, and communicate results to BU and executive management
· Develop business insights and appropriate KPI dashboards to analyze strategic business performance.
· Identify financial process improvements in collaboration with BU leadership and recommend appropriate courses of action
· Measure and monitor productivity and cost savings initiatives, and report result to appropriate management
· Prepare financial aspects of Mid-Range Plans (MRP) and monthly forecasts for BU
· Prepare ad hoc financial models to evaluate the feasibility of potential strategic objectives
· Advise BU commercial team on risks and opportunities and review bid calculations when appropriate.
· Recommend measures to improve cash flow management within the BU and implement as approved
· Advise BU management on all financial aspects of project execution
· Execute process improvement and financial system projects to improve the overall performance of the BU as instructed by the BU management
General Employee Accountabilities
· Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager
· Give manager best advice
· Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified
· Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager
· Exemplify Company Core Values: Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment
· Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws
· Recommend viable improvements proactively
· Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes
Manager Accountabilities
· Build and lead a team of committed and capable employees
· Plan for, appropriately assign, resource, and integrate the work of the team
· Lead, expect, and implement continuous improvement
· Own the output of the team
· Ensure team members fulfill functional and general employee accountabilities
· Exercise effective managerial leadership to include
· Two-way managerial team working
· Fair and just treatment of direct reports
· Context setting
· Planning
· Task assignment
· Ongoing performance management
· Coaching
· Selection and orientation
· De-selection and dismissal
· Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, related field, or equivalent via education and/or work experience
· 5 years’ experience in a finance related function
· Demonstrated ability to analyze and project financial impact of multi-currency, multi-entity transactions on the general ledger
· Advanced MS Excel modeling skills utilizing tools such as Pivot tables, graphs, and VBA
· Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts
· Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills
· Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility
· Proficiency in a financial module of an ERP system
· Proficiency in MS Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Windows
· Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, less than 5%, sometimes with limited notice
Preferred Qualifications
· 3 years’ experience managing a team to achieve business goals
· CPA certification
· Experience in a business which measures results principally by project
· Experience in a business with foreign ownership, preferably Japanese
Hiring Range: $104,150 - $156,250
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