Your Role

·       Providing leadership to a given Record to Report team;

·     Ensuring that appropriate General Ledger processes, controls, policies and procedures are in place and comply with Electrolux standards;

·       Ensuring that performance targets are met;

·       Driving process improvement initiatives;

·       Being a first point of contact for local GSSO Managers served;

A Typical Day

·       Leading a team that is responsible for one or more of the following GL processes:

-          Asset Accounting

-          Inventory Accounting

-          Tax Accounting

-          Treasury and Cash management

-          Period End Closing

-          Reporting

-          Audit Management

·       Participating in the establishment of the SLA for the RTR area with the countries, in line with overall GSSC SLA’s;

·       Monitoring and managing performance in the processes, ensuring that SLA’s and business objectives are met and that team resources are allocated effectively;

·       A successful migration of the RTR work from countries to GSSC through adequate leadership in process documentation, work shadowing and training of a team members;

·       Implementing methods and control tools to ensure stable and high quality in the provided service;

·       Resolution of delivery problems and dealing with complex client questions that your team members can not resolve themselves;

·       Timely and properly escalating to GSSC Process Manager and/or local GSSO Manager problems that reach beyond the scope of the migrated GL activities for the country;

·       Reporting to GSSC Process Manager and, when appropriate, to relevant local GSSO Manager, any deviations from agreed standards (delays, use of wrong templates, missing input);

·       Contributing to periodic meetings with other Team Leaders;

·       Providing visible leadership to RTR team;

·       Monitoring, coaching and supporting your team members to meet operational plans, development opportunities and career goals;

·       Participating in recruitment processes of new team members;

·       Managing team conflicts so that problems are resolved constructively;

·       Spotting and resolving recurring performance problems and improvement opportunities;

·       Preparing meeting agendas;

·       Facilitating team meetings using appropriate brainstorming, problem solving, decision making, and project planning techniques;

·       Managing meetings according to the team’s agreed upon guidelines;

·       Delegating team tasks as needed (e.g. recording, gathering information, etc.);

·       Facilitating ongoing self-evaluation of the team’s effectiveness;

·       Providing methods to avoid repetitive mistakes within the team;

·       Ensuring that needs of the business are understood within the team;

·       Actively aligning and improving processes in order to deliver quality, productivity and transparency improvements;

·       Maintain good working relationships with local GSSO managers through open communication on a regular basis and ad hoc as required;

·       Follow up queries;

·       Maintaining process maps and desktop procedures;

Additional responsibilities outside of standard job responsibilities:

·       Participating in knowledge transfer and process documentation to secure a safe transfer of work from Finance departments abroad to the GSSC;

·       Actively support in the execution of listed RTR processes if required;

·       Sharing knowledge and lessons learnt with all team leaders within own country group and within the GSSC;

·       Actively undertaking activities to increase your own competency portfolio in order to ensure continued effective service delivery within the SSC

Who You Are

• Candidates must possess at least a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Studies/ Administration. Management/ Economic/ Finance/Accounting/ Banking/Commerce or equivalent; relevant professional qualification (ACMA, ACA, CPA);
• MS Office, JDE, SAP (or other ERP system) knowledge;
• Minimum 4 years’ experience in post qualification accounting and finance,1 to 2 years’ experience in a middle management role, including staff management, experienced with Shared Service Centre environment, people & change management as well as working in a multicultural, international environment , understanding of relevant regional accounting practices and the regulatory environment;
• Passion to innovation, customer obsession, drive for results, communicative, team orientated, with analytical thinking, patient, paying attention to the details, organised, training skills, leadership skills, confidentiality, problem-solving skills, with the ability to motivate people, with the ability to plan and prioritize own work and other team members, taking ownership and responsibility of outstanding issues and queries;
•  Transition experience and/or ERP implementation experience;
•  Experience of working in a / within a multicultural, international environment;
• Available to travel / full time orientated;