Overview
Leads the delivery of advanced financial analysis, technical accounting, and process re-design to strengthen the quality, speed, and reliability of financial reporting and decision-making. Drives continuous improvement across finance processes, with a particular focus on the fast-close agenda.
Key Responsibilities
- Sets the roadmap for finance process redesign and continuous improvement.
- Defines and owns the delivery of the roadmap for finance process modernization.
- Establishes target operating models and architectural principles for standardized, system-enabled finance processes.
- Provides key inputs and KPIs on the fast close agenda.
- Directs the use of automation, data, and AI-enabled capabilities.
- Holds accountability for sustainable adoption of process and system changes.
- Leads and contributes to the design and resolution of complex finance process challenges.
- Actively shapes and validates future-state process designs and system solutions.
- Engages hands-on with automation, data, and AI-enabled use cases for finance.
- Provides senior-level problem solving and decision support during implementation.
- Ensures implemented solutions achieve measurable improvements.
- Leads the analysis and resolution of complex, non-routine, and judgment-intensive accounting and financial issues.
- Develops, documents, and maintains technical accounting positions and advisory papers.
- Acts as a focal point for complex accounting judgments.
- Leads the FIT team through direction by the Chief of Accounts on ambiguous and emerging issues and change initiative projects.
- Translates complex technical and analytical issues into clear options, risks, and recommendations.
- Delivers consistent, high-quality plans, implementations and outputs.
- Supports informed decision-making.
- Undertakes a variety of financial analyses.
- Synthesizes lessons learned and best practices in Finance.
- Provides sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice.
- Oversees 3 posts.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 7 years (with master’s degree) or 9 years (with bachelor’s degree) of current and relevant work experience in finance departments, preparing/analyzing financial statements and automating financial processes.
- At least 5 years of relevant experience at a managerial level is required.
- Audit and/or consulting experience in a large international auditing firm is required.
- Detailed current technical knowledge, experience, and expertise in complying with GAAP, preferably IPSAS or IFRS is required.
- Demonstrated experience and sound knowledge in working with ERP systems (preferably Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP and Oracle Cloud EPM (Enterprise Performance Management) are required.
- Demonstrated passion in AI, digital transformation, and process automation. Eager to explore and apply new technologies is required.
- Process transformation experience in large organizations, including strong project management with the proven ability to partner effectively with technical teams, apply strong process and problem-solving skills to resolve ambiguity and design scalable workflows, and translate clearly between business and technical stakeholders is desired.
- Demonstrated experience and expertise in the design, writing and interpretation of financial policies and procedures is desired.
- Demonstrated experience in flexibility to work across global time zones is desirable.
- Demonstrated experience in AI, digital transformation, and process automation is desired.
- Demonstrated experience in exploring and applying new technologies is desired.
- Demonstrated experience in managing teams is an asset.
Qualifications
- A professional accounting qualification from an internationally accredited institute of accountancy is required.
- An advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Business Administration, Public Administration, Finance, Accounting, Information Technology (IT) or another relevant subject is required, Or A first level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas stated above, in combination with two additional years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of the master’s degree.
