Senior Finance Manager- Statutory Preparation (Maternity cover)

Job Description SummaryLooking to make a global impact and solve problems?
Through relentless innovation and continuous collaboration with our customers GE Vernova, is providing more advanced, cleaner, and efficient power that people depend on today and building the energy technologies of the future.
What impact you’ll make?
You will be responsible for driving technical accounting compliance, financial and operational internal controls, process simplification, and operational excellence to deliver accurate financial reporting and analysis.
In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work.
In-depth understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.

Job Description

What you’ll do

• Participate in the preparation of annual local statutory reporting of the Swiss legal entities.

• Ensure that statutory reporting is completed accurately and on time in compliance with the country regulatory requirements. This includes branches, legal entities and statutory consolidations from outside the US, as well as the management of the statutory audit process where applicable. Ensure that the surrounding internal control procedures are robust and balanced and are closely adhered to.

• Support the coordination of the statutory audit process.

• Get familiar with the Gas Power business, the Company’s processes and procedures in order to support the local statutory audit efficiently.

• Proactively resolve issues within the organization, collaborate closely with other key internal (Controllership, FP&A, Tax) & external partners (PWC, Deloitte, etc.)

• Develop strong relationship with the external auditors and serves as the interface between other GE Vernova teams and the auditors

• Support the continuous improvement of the Statutory Compliance process to be more efficient and standardized. Acquiring a Lean Mindset and apply it throughout the continuous improvement.

• A job at this level is likely to be an individual contributor, with proven interpersonal skills. Communication with direct colleagues and the business about design and coordination services rendered. Provides informal guidance to new team members. Explains complex information to others in straightforward situations.

• Impacts approaches, projects and programs in the functional area or affected business organization and ways of working. Impacts quality, efficiency and effectiveness of own team. These jobs have significant input into their priorities. Jobs at this level tend to be covered by professional practices and policies but these are shaped by the role.  Working within broad guidelines and policies, roles at this level have moderate autonomy, requiring high levels of evaluative judgment.

• Uses judgment to make decisions or solve complex tasks or problems that impact the function. Takes new perspective on existing solutions. Uses technical experience and expertise for data analysis to support recommendations. Uses multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own function to arrive at decisions.

• Skilled influencer, able to communicate complex messages to others. Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus. Developing persuasion skills required to influence others on topics within field.

What you’ll bring (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting

• Significant experience in finance, accounting or taxation working on multi-national clients' statutory or tax-related matters or other businesses, including private law practice, accounting firm practice, industry practice, national tax practice or a combination thereof.

• Fluent English knowledge is a must in this role

• Strong oral and written communication skills – able to communicate complex tax issues, opportunities, and risks to non-tax experts in a simple way

• Adaptable/flexible: open to change in response to new information, different or unexpected circumstances, and/or ability to work in ambiguous situations

What will make you stand out

• Post-graduate degree in finance, accounting, economics, or with significant academic focus on taxation from accredited university or college

• Experience leading large complex teams of experienced professionals

• Ability to evaluate complex proposals and anticipate, identify, and resolve tax-related risks and opportunities

• Ability to partner effectively with business management, legal and finance personnel.

• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills

• Experience working in a matrix environment

• Integrity: Accepting and adhering to high moral, ethical, and personal values in decisions, communications, actions, and when dealing with others.

Additional Notes:

• Successful applicant will be legally eligible to enter into an employment relationship under the laws of Hungary
• This is a hybrid role with felxibility.

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