Accounting&Regulatory Finance Manager Country

About our role

The Accounting & Regulatory Finance Manager is responsible for the financial governance of the legal entities they are accountable for.

The ultimate goal of this role is to:

• Ensure the quality of financial reporting’s & quality of reported results, being accountable for their compliance with tax and accounting internal and external regulations & guidelines,
• Manage the communication and explanation of the financial reporting’s (together with P&C team) to internal & external stakeholders, e.g. Local and regional senior management, local tax authority and regulators, external auditors.

The Accounting & Regulatory Finance Manager is a senior financial expert, who ensures that all outputs are fair, accurate and complete and acts as a counterparty for financial matters with Stakeholders where it could be reasonably expected under their respective duties.

The Accounting & Regulatory Finance Manager acts with care and exercises prudent judgment in ensuring the mitigation of risks under tax and accounting principles.

The Accounting & Regulatory Finance Manager shows elevated analytical skills, communicates effectively in a plain and comprehensive manner.

The Accounting & Regulatory Finance Manager is able to work efficiently and collaboratively in a global environment, being flexible and innovative in finding solutions and actively participating in the development of practices and processes with the ultimate goal of respecting accounting and tax rules and deadlines.

What you will do

The Accounting & Regulatory Finance Manager, reporting to the Regional Head of Accounting & Regulatory Finance Manager, is accountable for the financial disclosures of the legal entities in their scope, acting in compliance with respect to Environmental, social, and corporate principles established by the group:

• Ensure that all periodic financial reporting (monthly, quarterly and yearly) are timely disclosed in accordance with group internal deadlines and regulatory requirements, under accounting, tax and legal requirements.
• Ensure the consistency and appropriateness in accounting methods and the respect of accounting requirements across the Finance Factory, leading compliance with the business’s internal corporate and finance rules book.
• Perform financial analysis with the ultimate aim to ensure quality and reliability of financial reports:
  • Monitor the balance sheet accounts and ensure that proper and correct reconciliation have been implemented by Finance Factory, to provide a reliable situation of the financial statements.
  • Monitor periodically the profit and loss accounts and ensure that proper and correct bookkeeping have been implemented by Finance Factory, to provide a reliable situation of the financial statements and of the profitability of the legal companies under responsibility.
  • Support Finance Factory in order to ensure a correct and timely delivery of tax submissions, escalating in case of risks for the company that require mitigation actions and playing a role in coordinating ad hoc tax audits
• Coordinate external audits and ensure inputs are timely and with accuracy delivered
• Ensure a timely and proper execution of internal audits & closure of related findings, developing relevant controls, rules and guidelines to enhance governance and mitigate risks,
• Encourage and facilitate communication with other teams, with focus on the collaboration with team members of Finance Factory, acting in a diligent and fair way in order to support the correct performance of the tasks in their area of responsibility and proactively encourage the resolution of the issues that can harm the value of the company
• Collect from Finance Factory the necessary information to exercise his controlling duties over the financial reporting’s and processes performed.
• Support implementation of Group initiatives at legal entity level, and support and locally drive transformation as required by the company´s strategy.

What you will bring

• Experienced qualified accountant
• Experience in a multinational, complex matrix environment
• Be able to communicate effectively across different levels, be a team-player and collaborative in her/his working style.
• Be adept at data analysis and presentation and being able to establish trends and identify data quality issues
• Personal Effectiveness – highly motivated, proactive, customer centric, responsible and highly committed
• Demonstrable knowledge of the following tools: MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, SAP GRP, SAP ECCS, Power BI

What we offer

Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey.

We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring  that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.

82832 | Finance & Accounting | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us. 
We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.
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