Head of Finance

Role Overview

• Reporting to the Group Accounting, Consolidation & Finance Transformation Director.
• Responsible for structuring, managing, and consolidating the financial operations of the Corporate entities in Lux.
• Structure the accounting organisation.
• Ensure the quality of accounting entries in the system, covering external and interco financing activities, OPEX and costs of M&A projects.
• Complete monthly, quarterly and annual closings under local GAAP and IFRS in a timely manner (quarterly consolidation package).
• Contribute to Financial fast close set up.
• Manage relationships with Local auditors up to the issuance of audit reports (Group audit and local statutory audits).
• Lead tax declaration processes with the assistance of external advisors and support the challenge of tax opportunities managed by Head of Tax.
• Support ad-hoc analyses and studies, particularly in close relationship with Tax Department (Transfer prices documentation) and Treasury Department.
• Ensure Tax compliance.
• Collaborate with other departments and coordinate all corporate finance structuring.
• Monitor monthly budget execution (Opex, Financing) in close interaction with the relevant departments at Corporate level.
• Prepare and oversee the budgeting and reforecasting process in collaboration with the concerned departments.
• Produce monthly performance analyses, dashboards, and activity reports for the finance department and executive committee.
• Contribute to optimizing the use of the finance system and participate in automating dashboard production.
• Prepare monthly cash flow forecasts and propose optimization.
• Organize the financing activities with a strong attention to internal control best practices and internal guidelines.
• Approve spending commitments in line with Group policies.
• Implement SOX procedures and documentation according to the yearly SOX group roadmap.
• Organize and plan the team’s activities, including OSP.
• Ensure scalability of the organization to support fast strategic development of the organization.
• Implement financing structuring collaboratively with Data4 Group departments.
• Set and monitor individual and collective objectives. Ensure team members’ skills development.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration (Ideally CPA qualified).
• Experience in an Audit / Accounting firm.
• Minimum of 15 years of experience in corporate finance.
• Managerial experience leading small teams.
• Excellent knowledge of accounting, consolidation, tax and best practices in financial control.
• Familiarity with accounting and treasury processes and softwares; experience of Consolidation and reporting systems (OneStream, for example); Microsoft Office.
• Fluent in English.
• Experience in project and team management.
• Rigor and methodical approach, detailed oriented.
• Adaptability and responsiveness.
• Open-minded.
• Organizational skills, with the ability to manage priorities and deadlines.
• Entrepreneurial spirit.
• Ability to synthetise.
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written.

Benefits

• Enforce hygiene, health, and safety rules.
• Enforce environmental policies.
• Enforce information security policies.
• Enforce energy reduction policies.