TMF Group

Global corporate administration: accounting, payroll, HR

Accounting & Tax Global RDC Lead

Financial Accounting +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

Extensive senior leadership experience (12+ years) in Accounting & Tax (A&T), with a strong track record operating across multiple jurisdictions and global environments.
Proven experience designing and executing global operating models, including establishing or scaling Shared Services, Regional Delivery Centres (RDCs), or Centres of Excellence.
Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale transformation programmes, including transitioning work across regions, driving standardisation, efficiency, and cost optimisation, and managing complex, cross-border change initiatives.
Strong background in multi-client service delivery models, ideally within a Big 4 or professional services environment (or equivalent outsourcing organisation).
Deep understanding of end-to-end Accounting & Tax processes.
Robust expertise in global tax compliance, statutory reporting, and regulatory frameworks across multiple jurisdictions.
Experience defining and governing global service frameworks, ensuring consistency, quality, and alignment across regions, including standardised methodologies, KPIs, and SLAs.
Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to support and influence.
Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to engage and influence senior leadership and global clients.
Proven leadership in building and developing high-performing global teams, including managing senior leaders across regions, establishing capability frameworks and talent pipelines, and driving a global community of practice.
Solid understanding of finance technology and ERP landscapes, such as SAP and Oracle, with the ability to partner effectively with technology and transformation teams.

Responsibilities

Define, maintain, and enhance the global Accounting & Tax service framework, ensuring consistency, compliance, and quality across all markets.
Oversee the alignment of deliverables, terminology, and pricing models across Regional Delivery Centers.
Establish, expand, and guide Regional Delivery Centers to ensure scalable, high-performing Accounting & Tax delivery teams.
Coordinate cross-region service capabilities.
Oversee standard Accounting & Tax processes across procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, and record-to-report functions, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and adherence to service-level agreements.
Monitor performance against key performance indicators and service-level agreements.
Ensure global compliance frameworks are applied consistently across Regional Delivery Centers.
Oversee global coordination for audits and ensure high-quality workpapers and reconciliations.
Support global solution architects by aligning Accounting & Tax capabilities with client proposals, requests for proposals, and global solution models.
Engage with the Pricing Team.
Mentor and elevate Accounting & Tax leaders across markets, ensuring alignment with global frameworks and promoting knowledge sharing.
Build competency roadmaps and provide coaching to delivery teams, ensuring a consistent Accounting & Tax skill baseline across all regions.

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About TMF Group

TMF Group is a leading provider of employee, financial and legal administration services, helping clients invest and operate safely around the world. Our 11k+ experts in 125+ offices across 87 jurisdictions worldwide serve corporates, financial institutions, asset managers, private clients and family offices, providing the combination of accounting, tax, payroll, fund administration, compliance and entity management services essential to global business success.

Discover the Role

We’re looking for a Global Accounting & Tax RDC Lead (Regional Delivery Center). Shaping the vision for the service delivery across all the RDCs. Defining and executing the global practice strategy by driving operational excellence, innovation and technical background across RDCs.

Key Responsibilities

Drive Global A&T Service Strategy and Governance

Define, maintain, and enhance the global A&T service framework, ensuring consistency, compliance, and quality across all markets.
Oversee the alignment of deliverables, terminology, and pricing models across RDCs

Lead and coordinate RDCs

Establish, expand, and guide Regional Delivery Centers (RDCs) to ensure scalable, high-performing A&T delivery teams.
Coordinate cross-region service capabilities.

Ensure Operational Excellence Across RDC A&T Services

Oversee standard A&T processes across procure‑to‑pay, order‑to‑cash, and record‑to‑report functions, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and adherence to SLAs.
Monitor performance against KPIs and SLAs.

Strengthen Quality, Compliance, and Risk Management

Ensure global compliance frameworks are applied consistently across RDCs.
Oversee global coordination for audits and ensure high‑quality workpapers and reconciliations.

Act as Primary Global Partner to Commercial, Solutioning, and Market Teams

Support global solution architects by aligning A&T capabilities with client proposals, RFPs, and global solution models.
Engage with Pricing Team.

Develop Talent and Build a Global A&T Community

Mentor and elevate A&T leaders across markets, ensuring alignment with global frameworks and promoting knowledge sharing.
Build competency roadmaps and provide coaching to delivery teams, ensuring a consistent A&T skill baseline across all regions.

Key Requirements

Extensive senior leadership experience (12+ years) in Accounting & Tax (A&T), with a strong track record operating across multiple jurisdictions and global environments
Proven experience designing and executing global operating models, including establishing or scaling Shared Services / Regional Delivery Centres (RDCs) / Centres of Excellence
Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale transformation programmes, including:
- Transitioning work across regions
- Driving standardisation, efficiency, and cost optimisation
- Managing complex, cross-border change initiatives
Strong background in multi-client service delivery models, ideally within a Big 4 or professional services environment (or equivalent outsourcing organisation)
Deep understanding of end-to-end A&T processes
Robust expertise in global tax compliance, statutory reporting, and regulatory frameworks across multiple jurisdictions
Experience defining and governing global service frameworks, ensuring consistency, quality, and alignment across regions, including standardised methodologies, KPIs, and SLAs
Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to support and influence
Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to engage and influence senior leadership and global clients
Proven leadership in building and developing high-performing global teams, including:
- Managing senior leaders across regions
- Establishing capability frameworks and talent pipelines
- Driving a global community of practice
Solid understanding of finance technology and ERP landscapes (e.g. SAP, Oracle), with the ability to partner effectively with technology and transformation teams

What’s in it for you?

Pathways for career development

Work with colleagues and clients around the world on interesting and challenging work.
We provide internal career opportunities, so you can take your career further within TMF.
Continuous development is supported through global learning opportunities from the TMF Business Academy.

Making an impact

You’ll be helping us to make the world a simpler place to do business for our clients.
Through our corporate social responsibility program, you’ll also be making a difference in the communities where we work.

A supportive environment

Strong feedback culture to help build an engaging workplace.
Our inclusive work environment allows you to work from our offices around the world, as well as from home, helping you find the right work-life balance to perform at your best.

We’re looking forward to getting to know you!

About the Company

TMF Group

Global corporate administration: accounting, payroll, HR

TMF Group provides outsourced administrative services for multinational companies, including accounting, tax, HR, payroll, and corporate secretarial duties. Its product works through a global network of offices in over 80 jurisdictions, delivering back-office, compliance, and regulatory tasks to help companies operate across borders. The company differentiates itself by its large international footprint, breadth of services, and long track record of growth through acquisitions, creating a one-stop back-office partner for global businesses. TMF Group’s goal is to support clients in running compliant, efficient operations worldwide by acting as their behind-the-scenes administrative backbone.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded: 1988

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