Financial Accountant-finance Operations with Global

**CA/CPA qualified with around 8 to 11 years of accounting experience.**:

- **Experience within commodities industry, with marketing, trading and logistics and trading knowledge is preferred**:

- **Working knowledge of Accounting, Consolidation and CTRM systems such as SAP S4/Hana, Hyperion and Aspect preferred.**

Our client is a renowned/global commodity MNC with an international presence. It offers a good work environment with attractive benefits (e.g. 25 days leave, good medical and insurance coverage covering immediate family members). For this role, you are a financial acct supporting its global iron ore marketing business.

The Financial Accountant performs the delivery of the financial reporting services that that Finance provides to Marketing business.

Reporting to the Team Lead - Finance Operations, this role is responsible for preparing and overseeing the full spectrum of financial closing and reporting requirements and works closely with Global Shared Services in managing certain key processes such as payments and receipts.

The Accountant also works with stakeholders across the business to design, implement and optimise the processes and systems to ensure that people have access to accurate business and financial information as and when they need it.

This role also drives a continuous improvement culture within Finance, putting in place ways to measure our performance and leading collaborative efforts to improve it.

Finally, the role works closely with the Information Management department to employ technology to automate activities.

**TYPICAL TASKS**

**Drive efficient and effective Finance operations**
- The Financial Accountant drives the engine room of the Finance function, managing payments to and from counterparties all the way to ensuring preparing and reviewing that all transactions are appropriately recorded in an effective manner within agreed timelines.
- Works within the framework of our financial controls and accounting policies, and engages closely with Risk, Group Shared Services and the wider Finance team to formulate, implement and perform robust controls and ensure documentation of key Finance processes. This has to be in line with upcoming UK ICFR requirements.

**Deliver on-demand information**

The role plays a key role in ensuring data integrity and making information available for on-demand to support commercial decisions and new business initiatives. It works closely with Business Partnering and other stakeholders to design and implement the technical accounting logic to align data streams with business activities from financial and performance reporting perspectives while managing the systems and processes to capture and deliver them as efficiently and accurately as possible.

Responsible for completion of reporting monthly results in an accurate, compliant and timely manner which includes coordination and collection of information from all relevant sources in delivering Monthly Financial Statements, Board papers and other regular information as required by the Marketing Business, Production Business Units or Group.

**Technology transformation**

Working closely with IM, the role looks to implement technologies that improve control, increase information available for the business and automate transactional activity as much as possible, freeing up the team to add value elsewhere. It needs to think differently about the work Finance does and how it gets done, including the elimination of manual journals and recons as a cost to quality.

**Project and Continuous improvement**

Creates a culture that actively looks to improve workflows and processes, minimising control weaknesses while increasing speed and accuracy.

Optimise links between SAP, Aspect, HFM and other systems to ensure information is readily available.

Design and improve processes around the systems to streamline efforts required to input and extract data.
Drive standardization and automation of processes via continual improvements.

**Leadership**
As we look to create the future of finance, the Financial Accountant needs to guide the Analysts, identifying the skills they need and helping them develop.

**Requirements**:

- CA/CPA qualified with around 8 to 11 years of accounting experience.
- Experience within commodities industry, with marketing, trading and logistics and trading knowledge is preferred
- Experience managing a small team of 2 to 3 staff is preferred (but not a must)
- Working knowledge of Accounting, Consolidation and CTRM systems such as SAP S4/Hana, Hyperion and Aspect preferred.
- **Strong knowledge of Finance Operations process flow and internal control**:

- **Strong understanding of how IT solutions can enable business processes, and able to communicate business requirements clearly to IT**:

- **Proven track record in delivering process improvements**:

- Ability to identify how the business generates value.
- Continuous process improvement (Level Proficient): Solves technical