The Director International Finance Programmes will play a critical role in establishing, overseeing, and executing all aspects of finance-related projects for our international organisation, along with taking ownership of key finance transformation initiatives. This includes supporting all the finance organisation’s projects, from initial planning to post-completion project management activities.

Finance Project and Program Management

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive project plan outlining key milestones, timelines, and deliverables for all projects.
• Monitor project progress, identify risks and issues, and implement mitigation strategies to ensure successful delivery.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with workstream leaders and their team members to facilitate communication and alignment.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams, including finance, legal, controllership, investor relations, human resources, and external partners, to ensure alignment and collaboration throughout various projects.
• Provide regular reports and updates to senior leadership and the steering committee on project status, milestones, and key metrics.
• Manage and monitor a detailed project budget, including estimates of the resources and investments needed to achieve project goals.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance project management practices and project outcomes.

Finance Transformation

• Set-up and drive finance improvements and utilisation of the shared services organisation to drive efficiencies.
• Standardisation of our international accounting processes, set-up of SSC, and driving harmonisation of procedures and transition to SSC.
• Evaluate and update the finance organisational chart to support new requirements for financial reporting and controls.
• Work closely with finance colleagues and other stakeholders (Europe finance/accounting directors and local finance controllers) to establish RACI and drive accountability for contributions and workstream/task ownership for key projects.

Establish governance and oversight of key projects

• Improve financial systems and reporting.
• Automation of manual close processes (ICP).
• Align Mgmt & GAAP reporting rollout of global and international procedures and processes.
• Enhance rigour to efficiently deliver results.
• Establishing a global chart of account alignment to reduce manual journal entries.
• Implementing an overall month-end closure checklist, and implementation of Blackline.
• Automation/simplification of close effort and days.
• Establish global governance and compliance framework.
• Identifying key controls required and process improvement needed to overcome internal/external audit findings.
• Ensuring key policies are documented and standardising a framework for key reserves.
• Standardising the master data governance framework to align with global requirements.
• Drive overall projects for improvements, such as implementation of Concur, invoice processing (P2P), Blackline, ERP projects, Oracle reporting, RPA, etc.
• Support in M&A integration projects.
• Assist the VP International Finance and VP Global Controller as needed.

• Holds a degree in accounting and/or finance. The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience employing project management principles, with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in finance and accounting.
• Expertise in shared services model implementation/execution, SoX/internal controls, and accounting (IFRS & US GAAP preferred).
• Proven managerial experience.
• Project management expertise, with a proficiency in project management tools (project management certifications preferred).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong command of the English language; any additional European language skills are a plus.
• Team player, dynamic, results-oriented, and hands-on mentality; and willing to occasionally travel.