International SOS Hiring for Financial Control Manager Job at London, England Full Time

Job Description

The Financial Control Manager will be responsible for the financial control of all legal entities under their control, ensuring the execution of all management and statutory financial accounting, taxation, foreign exchange management, cash flow management and all related regulatory compliance:

United Kingdom – International SOS Assistance UK Limited (LON);
Denmark – International SOS (Danmark) APS (DAN);
Sweden – ISOS Assistance (Sverige) (NAS);
Any other LE as defined in the future.

The role will also require the management of good working relationships with all external and internal stakeholders, including sub-location owners, to ensure compliance with accounting standards and reporting requirements.

The Financial Control Manager role will maintain and ensure that existing processes fulfill business requirements and objectives, and will identify any areas of improvement to promote positive changes to finance.

The position will require an excellent knowledge of accountancy standards, local regulatory requirements and good technical capability.

Key Responsibilities

• Ownership and execution of all financial control for the legal entities under your responsibility (described above), for both management and statutory accounts, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, regulatory standards and reporting requirements, including but not limited to:
• Preparation of timely and accurate monthly management accounts;
• Annual consolidation packs;
• Statutory annual financial statements;
• Regulatory returns including Vat returns, and corporation tax;
• Corporate secretarial governance and compliance;

• Ownership and monthly control of the balance sheet, including accounts receivable, accounts payable and intercompany balances ensuring processes and compliance reviews in place to avoid risk of misstatement;
• Engage with and manage relationships with the external auditors, banks and tax consultants;
• Ensure proper functioning of treasury relationships to ensure that cash holding and cash flow targets are achieved, including cash flow reporting and management;
• Ensure transfer pricing documentation is in place and maintained for all legal entities;
• Manage the foreign exchange exposure of your legal entities, including both balance sheet and cash flow hedging ensuring that the results are correctly interpreted, analyzed and reported;
• Ensure that the GAPP, GSS SOP and KPI are maintained, applied and respected by both the business and GSS;
• Supervise, actively manage and develop his/her team and direct report(s);
• Fulfill any ad hoc responsibilities as defined by your line managers.

Qualification

• You must be a Qualified Accountant and preferably come from an audit practice background;
• A minimum of 5 years post qualification experience;
• Be experienced in foreign exchange and cash flow management;
• Have an in-depth knowledge of Sun Accounting, Vision and Cognos, including administration of the accounting systems, would be an advantage;
• Excellent advanced knowledge of Excel;
• Person with drive for improvement and excellence;
• Strong capability to adapt to necessary changes, and to lead changes;
• Able to work under pressure, deliver results and observe deadlines;
• Hands-on with day-to-day operations;
• Be independent and firm, at same time a team player;
• Effective written and oral communication skills;
• Pre-requisite interpersonal skills to lead, develop and manage a team;
• Ability to deal with conflicting demands and priorities resulting from working in a matrix based organization with multiple stakeholders;
• Ability to operate within a decentralized environment

Additional Information

Hybrid working