Finance Manager Middle East & Africa

Finance Manager Middle East & Africa

Nipro Corporation

Mechelen, Belgium

About the role

The Finance Manager Middle-East & Africa (MEA) is responsible for providing professional, comprehensive support in financial accounting, with internal audit elements, and financial management of URC (including subsidiaries) and all our sales and distribution subsidiaries in the MEA region. The Finance Manager MEA closely collaborates with the local Country Managers, BU Directors Africa and Middle East and Managing Director URC to fully understand the business, and support, evaluate activities/proposals from finance perspective, including risk management. Simultaneously, the Finance Manager MEA proactively collaborates with various stakeholders, with the purpose of standardizing and improving relevant financial processes and systems, whilst ensuring the NME/NCJ group accounting principles are adhered to, in a manner compliant to the group’s financial control framework.

This function reports into the CFO Medical for broad impacting business matters (to ensure cross-departmental alignment and strategic resource/objectives alignment).

This function requires extensive and frequent functional interaction with the local/central accounting staff as well as series of business stakeholders, both functional and non-functional, local and central.

The person responsible shall thus require continuous vigilance in light of the matrix operated in as well as the complex and often changing state of business, challenges encountered affecting sound financial reporting and oversight.

People Management: 1 Financial Controller MEA.
Functional Management of local teams: 10 persons

What you will do

Accounting, Closing & Reporting, Controlling (40%)

• Manage broad accounting activities in our central ERP system (S4/HANA) such as payroll reconciliations, AP, AR, pre-payments, accruals, review fixed asset tables and depreciation postings, etc. where the size of operations for the NME entities in scope does not (yet) merit a localized accounting profile. This involves continuous alignment with local external accountants following up statutory fillings and local compliance;
• Manage monthly, quarterly, annual closing activities for the entities in scope;
• Manage monthly, quarterly, annual reporting, relating to management and financial reporting alike acting as a lynchpin between the various upstream financial/management stakeholders in Nipro Medical Eruope/Nipro Euorpe Group Companies/Nipro Corporation Japan;
• Develop and implement accounting approaches ensuring compliance to local GAAP/business practices whilst adhering to the group accounting principles and financial control framework;
• Continuous monitoring and controlling of the broad financial statements (existence, completeness, accuracy);
• Help and support the business in achieving its targets, whilst ensuring compliance;
• Support tax filings, VAT returns,…

Strategic Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting (25%)

• Support the MEA entities in scope with developing strategic plan proposals based on received inputs & information in close coordination with CFO and FP&A office;
• Coordinate and support the budgeting/forecasting process in close collaboration with the budget holders;
• Manage organizational cash flow of the subset of NME subsidiaries in concert with Treasury & Working Capital Director.

Audit (10%)

• Coordinate and follow up the annual audit processes for the entities in scope ensuring smooth and timely closing of the consolidated accounts of NME (and upstream).

Business integration (15%)

• Due diligence/internal audit of financial and internal control processes;
• Incorporation and alignment of financial and internal control processes into NME;
• Financial oversight of legal acquisition process;
• Onboarding on financial IT applications (ERP, expense management, bank,…).

Improvement Projects (10%)

• Initiate, improve and automate processes and reports related to the above;
• Support ad-hoc and annually defined improvement projects where required.

What you will need

• Ideally university degree in finance, economy, business management. If not at least a bachelor degree in accounting, economy,…;
• A first experience in people management is a plus;
• An experience in Big 4 would be a plus;
• Experience in accounting and/or controlling and/or auditing;
• Fluent in English and French;
• ERP experience, ideally SAP;
• Excellent communication skills;
• Able to travel 6-7 times a year in Middle East and Africa.

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