Business Unit Finance Manager

**What will you do**

This individual will be the Finance Partner for the Regional Finance Director as well as Country General Manager and will be the primary owner of the General Ledgers assigned to him/her. As such they will be responsible for the proper closing and statement of the accounts and be the first point of contact for any queries and audits. This role will also be responsible for compliance and ensuring a robust internal control environment in his/her assigned business unit. In addition, this person will act as intermediary between the Accounting Departments and the Business ensuring close cooperation and fast issue resolution.

**How will you do it**
- Primary owner of the General Ledger (GL) and first contact for GL reports, queries and audits
- Conduct financial analysis to support leadership in achieving the organization's short and long-term financial strategies. Lead the preparation and presentation of Monthly/Quarterly Outlook and Weekly Pulse, Closing & Reporting, and Budget creation in accordance with Corporate and Business requirements
- Provide visibility and analytical insight on financials to management and operational teams, with a focus on driving accountability across the organization to improve financial performance for P&L and cash-flows
- Support and contribute to the design and implementation of key business decisions & projects through pro-actively advising and engaging on all Finance matters. Drive performance through regular reviews, set benchmarking, backlog & pre-bid reviews, cash flow analysis
- Collaborating in the deployment of strategic business transformations and simplification programs to optimize current business and Finance processes and tool.
- Own and ensure the timely production of financial results analysis (identifying trending variances with operational drivers) and reliability of financial forecasts to reduce volatility identifying risks and opportunities early ensuring the operations team has plans in place to address them
- Review and validate bid economics (e.g. T&Cs, technical requirements, manufacturing cycle times, margin, security of payment, and cash flow optimization) to support leadership’s decision-making. Review contracts to identify and mitigate commercial finance risks
- Act as a key Orders-to-Cash (OTC) & Commercial point of contact. Partners with functional experts in sales, project, pricing, controllership, tax, legal, and treasury to ensure compliant and profitable deal structuring. Drive price on new orders, use market analysis to provide insights on deal sensitivities
- Proven interpersonal skills. Communication with direct colleagues and the business. Able to convey complex information to others in straight-forward manner, developing skills to influence others’ and drive cultural change
- Lead cross-functional process-improvement initiatives (policies, automation, simplification, and standardization), implementing best practices to drive financial performance.
- Promote effective communication between the BBC, IBC, and business through first-hand knowledge of the business, stakeholders, processes and issues
- Act as first escalation point for issues that don’t get resolved between business and functional owners
- Act as intermediary to ensure close cooperation and effective communication between the business and internal service providers (CFS, BBC, treasury etc.) and drive allocation of activities per agreed taxonomies and SLAs

**What we look for**

**Required**:

- Finance & Accounting degree or equivalent
- 10 years complex finance or controlling experience
- Experience working in matrix environment
- Excellent communication
- Strong customer and business orientation
- Desire to develop business acumen
- Leadership skills
- Financial analysis
- Strong analytical skills
- ability to write and speak fluent English. Native Spanish

**Preferred**:

- ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA
- Audit, Internal Control, Financial Compliance, FP&A
- Ability to work in a matrix organization
- Team Leading
- Business to Consumer business model knowledge
- Large multinational company experience
- Experience of US GAAP, SOX, P&L, General Ledger, Project Management, ERPs (SAP, Baan Ln, etc), OneStream