Manager - Financial Accounting Advisory
This is a high-profile position that involves close collaboration with Partners and other senior personnel, as well as key finance professionals in both publicly listed companies and multinational environments.
Job Responsibilities:
* Project manage outsourced accounting and finance assignments for multi-nationals, including centralised statutory accounting projects, centralised statutory audit projects, and global taxation compliance projects;
* Ability to work across a portfolio of clients;
* Identify process improvements in client working patterns and provide suggested remediations;
* Identify new business opportunities and work with internal contacts to convert leads and opportunities into projects;
* Build and maintain strong relationships with senior finance personnel;
* Manage and coach junior team members;
* Promote Financial Accounting Advisory Services both internally and externally, articulating all services and the value that we bring to our clients.
Key Skills:
* Experience in relationship management, negotiating with, and influencing senior individuals, both internally and externally;
* Experience in Multinational / Shared Services desirable;
* Experience in managing audit relationships with knowledge of multi-jurisdictional audit assignments;
* Committed to relationship development and able to identify opportunities to deliver the best value;
* Genuine interest in financial reporting issues;
* Good communicator, highly articulate with excellent report writing skills;
* Passion for client service;
* Able to learn quickly and keep abreast of the latest developments in financial reporting;
* Strong project management skills;
* Recognised accounting qualification;
* Minimum of 3 years of practical experience in dealing with accounting issues in a plc or equivalent organisation, either in Practice or Industry;