Senior Manager – Finance & Accounting

Key Responsibilities

• Own the key financial processes and control environment
• Ensuring a timely and accurate set of accounts are delivered each period
• The area is well controlled and the related balance sheet is fully understood and reconciled
• Ensure clear 2 way communication with the other areas of finance and the business to ensure the financial results are accurate and understood by all parties

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Run the financial processes including month end closing and reporting balance sheet reconciliations P L review
• Accrual and Prepayment posting
• Deep understanding accounting standards
• Understanding and reconciling the related balance sheet accounts
• Good understanding of retail business
• Good knowledge of banking intercompany and fixed asset
• Understanding on preparing balance sheet budget
• Deliver process improvement to standardise processes across the brands and the various areas
• Budgeting and Forecasting support these key processes as required in particular through provision of actual costs and balances with insights into key drivers and movements
• Variance Analysis to compare budget vs actual and forecast vs actual and provide commentary on the material variances

Qualification & Requirements

• The role will manage multiple senior stakeholders and be challenging where required
• The ideal candidate should be proficient with numbers and have an accounting background particularly with detail to cash books and bank reconciliations banking experience and use of payments systems
• He must be able to meet daily monthly deadlines
• The systemic knowledge of various systems and accounting packages is necessary
• Flexibility and analytical skills will be required to take on more complex assignments and also work more independently

JOB HOLDER SPECIFICATION

• Academic and Professional Exposure
• Accounting graduate Chartered Accountant or Cost Accountant preferrable
• Experience in Shared Service Organization

Technical skills

• Thorough knowledge of Finance and Treasury systems
• ERP like SAP exposure
• Good MS Office knowledge and advanced Excel skills
• Good accounting skills with an eye for detail and have exposure of working as an individual contributor
• Team management experience

Personal skills

• Advanced level of English strong verbal and written communication skills
• Written and Verbal Communication Skills able to tell a complex story in a compelling manner via all means of communication
• Stakeholder Management Manage and influence senior stakeholders Advanced
• Accounting and Financial Management Apply financial knowledge to commercial and operational areas and explain clearly

Benefits

• Insurance Benefits
• Retirement Benefits
• Vacation Policy
• Other Perks and Benefits…