Finance Lead Shared Service Center

Anthesis Group

Job Location:

Manila - Philippines

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 13 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Finance SSC Lead in the Philippines will oversee the project finance accounting accounts payable and transactional teams playing a crucial role in the organizations financial management and strategic planning. This position requires a dynamic leader capable of managing multiple projects and ensuring accurate financial reporting. The Finance Lead will also be responsible for maintaining robust and timely accounting operations to international standards and best practice processes in accordance with service level agreements. Additionally this role involves managing the accounts payable function ensuring timely and accurate processing of invoices and payments

Key Responsibilities

1. Service Excellence & Stakeholder Management:

Accountable for team performance as per SLAs and measured by monthly reported KPIs to be shared with Group and local teams.
Member of global finance leadership team accountable for GRC performance and process improvement
Comfortable communicating with senior stakeholders across the group to promote transparency trust and collaboration.

2. Project Finance:

Deliver through the project finance lead to improve processing efficiency accuracy and customer service
Overall responsibility for accurate and timely financial analysis for project performance profitability and risk assessment.
Collaborate Global business line leads and Group leadership to ensure identify and deliver upon process improvements and ensure compliance with financial policies.

3. Accounting Operations:

Responsible for teams delivery of accurate and timely management accounts ensuring compliance with local and international accounting standards.
Overall responsibility for teams accuracy and timeliness month-end and yearend closing processes including reconciliation and journal entries.
Ensure accurate maintenance of the general ledger and all financial records.
Manage accounting procedures and systems to ensure compliance with internal policies and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

4. Accounts Payable Management:

Supervise the accounts payable team to ensure timely and accurate processing of invoices and payments.
Suggest implement and maintain internal controls over the accounts payable function to prevent errors and fraud.

5. Integration and Audit Support

Responsible for driving integration timelines and project management and hypercare post transition
Responsible for driving actions leading from audit findings reports and strive toward continual improvement

6. Team Leadership and Development:

Lead mentor and develop the project finance accounting and accounts payable teams.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement professional development and collaboration within the finance department.
Set performance objectives provide regular feedback and conduct performance reviews for team members.
Create a high achieving culture

7. Process Improvement:

Identify opportunities for process improvement within the finance function particularly in project finance accounting and accounts payable and drive these improvements through the business
Be proactive in implementing best practices and technology solutions to increase efficiency and accuracy in financial operations.
Develop and maintain strong relationships with the senior leadership and take responsibility to ensure adherence to robust control framework and accurate financial reporting

Skills Knowledge & Expertise

Qualified accountant with strong technical accounting (IFRS) and project accounting skills
10 years of relevant working experience
Previous experience of leading large teams with global stakeholders
Prior experience leading a global shared service center Experience with Oracle NetSuite
Proficiency in Microsoft applications (Excel Outlook PowerPoint and Word) is essential
Outstanding communication skills with experience reporting to C suite
Excellent English language written and verbal communication skills
Good interpersonal skills with a strong customer service focus
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Proactive self-starter with first class organizational ability who is detail oriented and results focused and able to oversee and support the financial administration of several projects at once
Proactive and a committed team player
Can work under pressure and with minimal supervision
Can work on flexible hours to support global teams in many time zones meet changing work environment and to meet tight deadlines