Senior Manager, Finance

Primary DetailsTime Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

The purpose of this role is to lead and coordinate the operational and day-to-day management of accounting and reporting activities within the Finance Accounting Operations team. This includes ensuring accurate month-end close, managing financial accountants, supporting finance business partners, and overseeing banking administration and accounts payable processes. The role involves analysing, reviewing, and approving team outputs, implementing changes and policies, and providing high-level business analysis and recommendations to key stakeholders, while ensuring compliance with accounting standards and regulations. Additionally, this role leverages deep financial expertise, strategic thinking, and collaborative leadership to drive the achievement of the organization's overarching goals by enabling sound financial management and decision-making.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting to support business operations.
• Lead and support continuous improvement initiatives in forecasting and reporting processes.
• Manage day-to-day delivery of team services to meet specific needs of the business.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance on financial matters.
• Drive process optimisation and efficiency targets.
• Maintain compliance with policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Provide financial management leadership in areas such as tax, financial reporting, and treasury management to the finance team.
• Prepare accurate and timely financial reports and forecasts for the organisation.
• Establish effective financial controls to protect the organisation's profits.
• Support the development and maintenance of financial systems and procedures.

Work Experience:

Necessary Work Experience includes:

• Moderate relevant experience.

Preferred Work Experience includes:

• Work experience in a BPO/shared service environment, preferably with work experience in Insurance.
• Significant experience in a relevant role post qualification (Financial Control in a Global Insurance or Finance Services organisation).
• People management, financial services and/or accounting experience, with increasing levels of responsibility.
• Background in strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting process, monthly analyses and reports, building complex financial models, managing and supporting Budget and Reforecasting submissions, preparation of ad hoc financial projections and analysis, building and updating profitability and cash flow models, drawdown funding, special financial planning and analysis projects.
• Experience managing a highly performing team, working on a global team, leading and supporting continuous improvement of dynamic forecasting and reporting processes.
• Project management and change management experience, proven experience in taking active accountability for own workload, consistent and constructive people management capabilities, working with all levels of an organisation, significant accounting experience within a complex financial services organisation.
• Prior experience in review or preparation of financial accounts, and accounting for multinational business.

Qualifications:

Necessary Qualifications include:

• Tertiary qualifications or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Certifications as an accountant.

Skills:

Analytical Thinking, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Cost Management, Critical Thinking, Financial Accounting, Financial Data Reporting, Financial Products, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Process Improvements, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Talent Management, Team Management

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.