· Supervise the GL, Treasury, Intercompany, AP, AR, cash teams and Payroll activities, providing guidance to team members as needed to ensure timely and accurate processing of entries and reconciliations.
· Manage the day-to-day operations of the SSC, liaising with the corporate senior management team, ensuring that all standards are met and procedures are followed. Establishes priorities and schedules of main activities.
· Establishing objectives, policies, methods and standards to ensure AP, AR and GL process outputs result to provide required information for management review.
· Develop and maintain strong sets of financial control in the areas of AP invoice accounting, payments, AR invoice accounting, collections, month closing, accruals, fixed assets management, Intercompany entries and reconciliations, GL reconciliations, treasury reconciliations, payroll accounting and MIS publishing as per company policies and procedures.
· Driving of balance sheet reconciliations and ensure controls are operating as designed and timelines are met in completing the reconciliations.
· Establish, develop metric-based reporting, including creating reports dashboard for internal and external reporting.
· Supervision of AP, AR, Inventory and cash teams for timely completion of entries and highlighting errors to make the corrections. Reviews and monitors accounting services to identify trends and problem areas, reporting on risks, key performance indicators and proposed corrective action or new approaches.
· Ensures information handled within the scope of responsibility is kept confidential, ensuring data and information integrity to protect the company’s interests. Ensure that information received in prescribed formats and timelines and output published within deadlines prescribed. Escalating discrepancies in information received and highlighting the same to finance director/finance manager.
· Train, coach team members on policies, standards, controls, and procedures to deliver expected level of service. Develop and maintain collaborative partnerships with end users and foster a collaborative and productive culture and work environment.
· Provide leadership for continued process improvement as well as an understanding of transactional processes and systems in order to effectively and successfully move the department forward.
Requirements
· Bachelor’s Degree
· Candidate must be a Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India or Cost Accountant from The Institute of Cost amp; Work Accountants of India or ACCA.
· 8-10 Years out of which at least 1 year in a Shared Service Centre is an added advantage.
· Must have the working knowledge of GL, FA, AP, AR and CM modules.
· Should be proficient in MS Excel.
· Lean Six Sigma Certification an advantage, Master’s Degree desirable.
· Must have 3+ years General Ledger Process Improvement/Project experience
· Arabic language skills would be an added advantage for this role
Technical and Business Skills
· Must be very familiar with working with multiple currencies, foreign exchange currencies and different tax codes.