You will lead the local finance team, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and statutory requirements while managing financial reporting. This role involves collaborating with various departments, supervising controllers, and streamlining financial processes.
Anforderungen
- •Degree in Finance, Audit, or Accounting
- •At least 5-8 years’ accounting experience
- •Industrial environment preferred
- •Experience in audit ideally welcome
- •Fluent in both English and German
- •Management Leadership and development
- •Strong knowledge of ERP systems
- •Proficiency with SAP Industry applications
- •Business and Industrial Cost analysis
- •Proficiency with MS Excel
- •Strong practical accounting knowledge
- •Strong attention to detail
- •Strong documentation skills
- •Strong analytical and organizational skills
Deine Aufgaben
- •Lead the local finance team after transition.
- •Maintain accounting books in local GAAP and IFRS.
- •Ensure compliance with statutory audit and CIT provisions.
- •Manage financial reporting requirements from LDC Group.
- •Organize coordination with other finance functions.
- •Act as main finance contact with relevant departments.
- •Supervise business and industrial controllers.
- •Support FP&A department for budgeting processes.
- •Ensure compliance with German statutory and fiscal regulations.
- •Prepare statutory reporting and manage auditor relationships.
- •Liaise with tax department for full tax compliance.
- •Support during tax audit procedures.
- •Ensure IFRS compliance of group reporting packages.
- •Check figures for accuracy in local books.
- •Perform reconciliations and ensure reporting consistency.
- •Supervise Shared Business Services during closing processes.
- •Ensure proper intraco/interco settlements and reconciliations.
- •Respect EMEA reporting deadlines.
- •Perform ageing review of receivables with Credit department.
- •Provide insights to improve business performance.
- •Ensure timely reporting of financial results.
- •Coordinate with Treasury for cash optimization.
- •Maintain profitability and cost analysis information system.
- •Improve information flow processes and automate when possible.
- •Coordinate deployment and improvements of financial systems.
- •Implement quality control framework with Internal control department.
- •Follow up on completeness of all cash movements.
- •Perform cash reconciliation with Treasury department.
- •Supervise intercompany reconciliation processes.
- •Book forex transactions.
- •Ensure timely and accurate production of deliverables.
- •Conduct ageing balance reviews.
Deine Vorteile
Competitive salary
Hybrid work available
Pension contributions
Access to training and development
Original Beschreibung
## Job Description
**Main Responsibilities**
After a transition period, the **Finance Manager** will become the leader of the local finance team. She/he is responsible for maintaining the accounting books in local GAAP and IFRS, ensuring compliance with related requirements (e.g. issuance and filing of the statutory audit, CIT provision).
She/he is also in charge of all financial reporting requirements from the LDC Group. The Finance manager manages the SBS related activities and organize coordination with other finance functions (Treasury, Tax, Credit risk, Internal control…). She/he is the finance main point of contact with the Food and Feed Solutions Platform, Legal, DT&A departments and EMEA regional management. Locally, She/he supervises the business and the industrial controllers, supporting the FP&A department for the budget and landing process.
**Statutory and tax compliance**
* Ensure company compliance with German statutory and fiscal regulations
* Prepare statutory reporting and manage the relationship with local auditors and Administration
* Liaise with tax department to ensure full tax compliance and bring support during tax audit procedures
* Ensure compliance of group reporting packages with IFRS in liaison with Group experts.
**Statutory and tax compliance**
* Ensure company compliance with German statutory and fiscal regulations
* Prepare statutory reporting and manage the relationship with local auditors and Administration
* Liaise with tax department to ensure full tax compliance and bring support during tax audit procedures
* Ensure compliance of group reporting packages with IFRS in liaison with Group experts
**Monthly and quarterly closings:**
* Owner of the local books: check figures for accuracy, perform reconciliations, and ensure consistency of the reporting packages.
* Supervise and support the Shared Business Services (SBS) during the closing process
* Ensure proper intraco / interco settlements and reconciliations
* Respect EMEA deadlines
* Perform ageing review of receivables in coordination with Credit department.
**Business and Controlling:**
* Main point of contact for the Food and Feed Solutions platform.
* Supervise the business and industrial controllers.
* Provide insights and recommendations to improve business performance and operational efficiency.
* Ensure accurate and timely reporting of financial results to support strategic planning and decision-making.
* Coordinate with Treasury for optimization of the cash usage and working capital funding
* Ensure liaison with other departments (Commercial, operations, logistics,…).
**System and control**
* Maintain an information system that allows profitability and cost analysis.
* Improve processes in place all along the flow of information (i.e. includes SAP e.g. Sales and distribution module and other applications), automatize them as much as doable and challenge them when necessary
* Coordinate with DT&A and FPSO the deployment and improvements of financial systems
* Implement and maintain a high quality control framework in collaboration with the Internal control department to ensure integrity of financial data and protect the company against fraud.
Below tasks are done by SBS teams:
* Follow-up and ensuring completeness of all cash movements
* Cash reconciliation with the Treasury department
* Supervise & support Intercompany reconciliation
* Forex booking
* Ensure deliverables (ICS upload, ICS reconciliation, C package, S package) are produced on time (according to EMEA deadlines) and accurately
* Ensure proper ageing balance review.
## Qualifications
* Degree or relevant diploma in Finance, Audit, or Accounting degree
* At least 5-8 years’ experience in accounting, controlling and reporting - with a very strong accounting understanding
* Industrial environment would be preferred
* Experience in audit welcome ideally.
* Languages: Fluent in both English and German
**Other skills (Computer Skills, etc)**
* Management Leadership and development
* Strong knowledge of ERP systems (SAP preferred) and Microsoft Office
* Proficiency with SAP Industry including Sale & Distribution module, SAP BI and any other IT applications
* Business and Industrial Cost analysis
* Proficiency with MS Excel, including pivot table
* Strong practical accounting knowledge
* Strong attention to detail, including precise accuracy of data entry
* Strong documentation skills
* Strong analytical and organizational skills, including detailed follow-through abilities.