Finance Manager - Spanish & Portuguese speaking
Job Title: Finance Manager – Spanish and Portuguese speaking
Base Location: This role is based out of its head office in Langley.
Work Pattern: They work on a hybrid work pattern looking at 2 days a week in the office.
Note: For this role it is essential that you can speak both Spanish AND Portuguese.
This is a fantastic opportunity for experienced Finance Manager/Senior Accountant to join a very successful global travel retail platform business. The reason the role has come about is due to the transition of oversight, review and control of all our outsourced accounting activities across Latin America from Brazil which is now moved into the UK center of excellence.
Why Apply?
You will be joining a growing team, acting as the regional controller over all accounting activities across Latin America, with time and growth this could also open up to other regions based in Europe.
What will you be doing?
The main crux of this role is to be responsible for the accounting and reporting activities of certain group operating companies, and to understand the accounting, business, and operations, including analysing and explaining P&L and balance sheet variances in detail.
On a day-to-day basis, this role will include:
* Management of month, quarter, and year-end close timetable, ensuring bottlenecks are resolved and escalating issues as appropriate, monitoring the delivery of activities by our outsourced accounting providers, and supporting identification and resolution of any accounting issues.
* Directing, supporting, and monitoring the activities of our main outsourced business partner and other local compliance and accounting partners, including contract management and review of local reporting.
* Undertaking the accounting for more complex/unusual accounting transactions.
* Involvement in driving process improvements, improving consistency of practices across legal entities and regions, including improvements to our financial systems.
* Reviewing legal entity reporting packs providing Balance Sheet and P&L analysis and supporting commentary.
* Overseeing the external audit process, financial statement filings and other compliance deliverables, ensuring auditors' questions are being appropriately answered.
What will you need to do it?
* Ideally, you would be a qualified Accountant or qualified by experience.
* You will need to have both Spanish and Portuguese written & verbal language skills.
* Ideally, your finance experience would be within a large, complex business.
Skills we’d love to see:
* If you have hands-on finance/accounting experience from Latin America, we would love to see it.
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Finance and Accounting/Auditing
Industries: Travel Arrangements and Technology, Information and Media
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