Chief Accounting Officer

Main Responsibilities:

• Accountable for statutory and Group Actual reported books (P&L, Balance Sheet, etc.) prepared by ACC and local teams, ensuring compliance with both local and Group requirements
• Set-up and lead the Country Accounting Organization, supported by ACC
• Optimize the set-up and quality of accounting processes and tools / technology enablers, in line with Group guidelines and internal control requirements (incl. various projects)
• Propose financial technical advice and support for the business needs
• Collaborate within Finance Community to support the overall function goals
• Manage Tax accounting & filings, in coordination with Tax Compliance teams
• Manage the relation with external stakeholders (incl. auditors)
• Drive Transformation within the Accounting domain and support other related Group transformations”

Responsibilities

1- Accountable for Group accounting, statutory and tax books prepared by ACC and local team:

• Provide input on local accounting policies and procedures and define local Accounting approval matrix
• Ensure robust end to end accounting process in coordination with ACC: efficiency, productivity and quality of delivery
• Reporting under IFRS & Group principles (Implementation of Group Controlling and accounting rules and processes)
• Ensure the production of the compliant statutory accounts, communication with local authorities, auditors, banks,
• Manage regular Balance sheet reviews and challenge assessment of risk provisions
• In collaboration with tax ensure local and international tax compliance, timely filling in, reviewing, approving, filing the tax returns and making the tax payment
• Ensure reconciliation between tax / local GAAP/ group reporting accounts

2- Leads the Country Accounting Organization, supported by ACC:

• Manage work with Finance SS in the framework of an SLA
• Set up & update Accounting team in the Country for all legal entities, in accordance with the Group projects & evolution
• Governance and escalation of issues (based on Sequence tool)
• Part of ACC Governance and respond to ACC Customer satisfaction survey

3- Responsible to optimize set up and quality of Accounting and Tax processes and tools:

• Define priorities and roadmap for process improvement
• Ensure that processes are in place, they are in line with corporate guidelines, documented, communicated and updated
• Ensure that tools are in place, they are in line with the corporate guidelines and employees are trained to use the
• Lead evolution & change in tools in compliance with Global guidelines (and where applicable including tools not governed by the Global guidelines)

4- Responsible to update Finance on legislations/local rules change and statutory events:

• Maintain Subscription for Accounting, Tax and relevant legislation updates from external professional firms or local
• Membership to Accounting and Tax Network
• Responsible to maintain a planning of all statutory / compliance activities and duties
• Accountable for implementation of internal controls in all accounting processes in his/her scope
• Provide accounting support for ad-hoc activities like acquisitions, LE merges, carve-outs
• Lead Accounting Transformation, to align with Group strategy and support other Group related transformation projects (where applicable)”

What qualifications will make you successful for this role?

Technical skills

• Local accounting/tax qualification and English speaking
• CPA or IFRS degree (certificates)- Process oriented (workflows, guidelines, instructions, documentation etc.)
• compliance and internal control
• Digital Mindset
• Technical knowledge of IFRS and country accounting (both statutory and tax)
• IT and tools oriented
• capacity to understand both local and global pictures from a statutory perspective”

Soft Skills and leadership

• Business partnership
• Leadership and team management skills
• Collaboration
• Good communicator able to explain
• Capacity to collaborate and manage stakeholders (CFO, ACC, Auditors, Corp, Functions)
• Ability to synthesize and identify key priorities and issues, and after explain complex issues in simple manner
• Agility and capacity to drive change
• Curiosity, pragmatism and capacity to understand both local and global pictures

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