Job Descriptions

As our EMEA Finance Manager, you’ll support HID’s success by: 

• Supporting the development of the Financial Reporting Shared Service team in Galway Ireland, building an effective partnership with all other finance and business functions.
• Setting and managing the execution of departmental goals, metrics, and objectives, based upon overall corporate initiatives.
• Areas of responsibility will include Record to Report, including statutory reporting.

Financial & Management Reporting

• Being responsible for delivering full monthly management accounts spanning a portfolio of countries, to strict deadlines.
• Managing full Trial Balance and maintain monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations for multiple entities.
• Statutory compliance, Taxation and & reporting
• Continuously reviewing regional legislative environment to ensure the financial/tax aspects is in order and assist non finance departments in their compliance requirements.
• Full responsibility for ensuring entities are aligned with local legislative requirements, i.e., Financial Statements, tax returns, etc.
• Liaising with local financial/taxation advisors as required.

Relationships

• Developing proven relationships with all finance functions as well as the non- finance departments.

Customer Service

• Building and maintaining a strong customer centric culture within the financial reporting team.
• Delivering SLAs/KPIs and improving efficiency of the operations each year.
• Providing process oversight and support to the Business Areas to enable them to meet internal reporting requirements in a timely manner.

Process & Systems

• Working as part of a global team, supporting continuous improvement in the Shared Services team, to create an environment that strives for global consistency of best practices, identified both internally and externally to the organization.
• This includes standardisation of processes and practices across the department and implementation of new systems.
• Ensuring processes are robust and compliant with HID standard.
• Integration of new entities into EMEA Finance Shared Services.

What we will love about your background: 

• 5+ years of financial management experience in a multinational public corporation.
• Performance management and team development experience.
• Very good knowledge of processes within SSC and an understanding of continuous improvement methodology.
• Time management – ability to focus and get things done and know what is business critical; able to deal with conflicting priorities and ambiguity.
• Pro-client attitude and excellent analytical skills.
• Co-ordination/planning/resource allocation – ability to bring together different people with conflicting schedules/ideas and meet deadlines.
• Diligent - strong work ethic.
• Interpersonal skills – good level of written and verbal communication skills with the ability to see other people’s points of view and incorporate them into overall plans.
• Proven analytical skills – able to decide when more work needs to be done or if high level analysis is sufficient.
• High level of personal and professional integrity and confidentiality.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with a range of stakeholders.
• Proven problem solver with the ability to work independently to research, test hypotheses, arrive at conclusions and make recommendations.

Your Experience and Education include:             

• Relevant professional qualification in Accounting, Finance or related discipline.
• Bachelor’s degree required (Finance, Business Administration, or Accounting preferred).
• Recognised professional accounting qualification.

Skills

Experience

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