Head of Accounting and Finance Operations

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Overall responsibilities:

  • Developing and managing the accounting and administrative processes for the Caspian Region
  • Digitizing the core accounting and finance operations processes
  • Ensuring tax compliance and optimization
  • Ensuring risk management is embedded into the finance function
  • Leadership to the finance team, recruiting the right talent, development of the next finance leaders
  • Being an integrated member of the global finance function and a core member of the big transformational change programs
  • Advise the management on statutory, technical risks – and lead the changes for compliance

Specific responsibilities:

Oversight Accounting and Administrative Processes

  • Ensures the integrity for the legal entity financial statements by management of reconciliation between statutory, GAAP and tax accounts and local accounting systems including related documentation and quarterly/year-end balance
  • Ensuring adherence to firm-wide vendor policies and agreements, including external advisory hiring decisions
  • Ensuring that local practices comply with BCG finance policies and local requirements and involved in developing, modifying and executing as relevant
  • Continuously seeking transformation to reengineer local business processes to obtain efficiencies, reduce costs, and maintain infrastructure necessary to support the growth of the system
  • Leading local development and implementation of financial accounting applications
  • Manages the automatization, outsourcing, and simplification of all transactional processes

Oversee and integrate the processes for Compensation and Benefits (PSRF, modernize Benefits, Processes)

Treasury and Tax

  • Treasury management including monthly cash forecasting (short term and longer term) and, under global guidance, management of funding of the legal entities, monitoring of local borrowings, managing local investments, maximizing return/minimizing cost, minimizing FX exposure, and maintaining banking relationships
  • Work with Finance Manager and Global Tax to develop appropriate tax strategy and continuously identify opportunities for local and global tax efficiencies and minimize our risk
  • Responsible for ensuring tax compliance
  • Manage external tax audits
  • Ensuring a good understanding of individual income taxes and social security regulations where these impact transfers, officer compensation structure and employee benefits
  • Working with the inhouse bank and other banking relationship

Risk management

  • Ensuring that risk management is effectively embedded into the finance function, including ensuring adequate systems of internal control (segregation of duties, reconciliations, checks and balances and oversight)
  • Pro-actively identifying and mitigating risks; this includes support to BCG’s other admin functions e.g. HR and IT where required
  • Ensuring compliance with local regulatory requirements, including preparing all official documents and filings required by local laws
  • Monitoring cross border activity and related tax and legal issues
  • Managing local office insurances

People, leadership and teaming (with HOF EMCR and FP&A Function)

  • Responsible for personnel planning and leadership of the finance areas noted above including recruiting, training, career development, leadership, and support. Long-term planning of capacities, ensuring a high level of flexibility and quality
  • Promote and foster cross finance functional teaming throughout the system
  • Working with HOF EMCR on issues, navigating the BCG Finance network and obtaining guidance, leverage and support from the global organization where appropriate

You're good at:

Technical and functional skills

  • Strong knowledge in the areas of finance and accounting, planning & reporting, risk management
  • Ability to recognize cross-functional issues

Problem solving, analytical skills and decision making

  • Demonstrate a curiosity for solving problems, and initiative in finding ways to get things done better
  • Independently resolves complex issues/problems, yet appropriately seeks advice and counsel for decisions including key stakeholders
  • Demonstrates both strong analytic and big picture capabilities in problem solving approaches
  • Clarifies and simplifies BCG policies and decision making structure for others

Communication, interpersonal and teaming skills

  • Excellent verbal communication and listening skills
  • Self-starter and ability to work both independently and in teams
  • Excellent communication skills, able to engage and gain buy-in for plans and ideas from key stakeholders with whom he/she has influence, but not authority, in order to get things done
  • Builds strong networks within and across functions, geography, with senior leadership and externally

Leadership, impact and change

  • Strong managerial skills, including people management and process management will be called upon
  • Proven ability to work successfully and manage change within a global, complex matrix organization
  • Demonstrated ability to both work effectively in and lead a group of peers

Work management, organization and planning

  • Ability to juggle multiple projects and deadlines and competing priorities
  • Superior organization and management skills

People management

  • Type of person who can empathize with people’s needs, concerns and goals, and have a genuine interest in the field operations and the mentoring of the controller
  • Balances control and delegation; is available and approachable
  • Mentors and develops beyond current position/role

Values and ethics

  • Treats all others with respect; generates trust and performs role with highest level of integrity
  • Aligns individual and team goals with firm goals; represents BCG well, protects the firm's interests

You bring (Experience & Qualifications)

Education and certifications

  • University degree in Economics/Finance or Business administration, preferably with emphasis on Finance/Accounting

Work experience

  • 10 years of (management) experience, ideally in an auditing firm plus in a leadership in an international professional services firm
  • Deep knowledge of local statutory accounting rules and good familiarity with US GAAP
  • Hands-on and technical experience in general accounting, tax, financial systems implementation, financial reporting in the professional service industry
  • Experience with digitizing processes within finance and transformation of that function and good know how of the eco system in the market
  • Experience working with outsource providers/shared service hubs for transactional processes, e.g. Accounts payable, employee expenses
  • Excellent analytical capabilities and numerical reasoning
  • Trustworthy, communicative personality with service mentality and professional bearing
  • Strong teamwork and change management skills, flexibility, openness to change, and willingness to shape policy
  • Tact and pragmatism
  • Demonstrated ability to work effectively in an international environment with people at all organizational levels by establishing positive and productive working relationships
  • A successful track record in a fast-paced, global, intellectually intense, service-oriented environment
  • Ideally experience in a professional services company
  • Project management experience

Computer skills

  • Advanced technical skills with proficiency in desktop applications, passion for digital tools. User of collaboration tools is a plus
  • Extensive experience with Windows, Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, and Word, Outlook) and exposure to Oracle or SAP or other large financial systems environment

Language skills

  • Fluent in Azeri, Russian and English (both written and verbal)

Travel requirements

  • Some travel will be required, primarily within the Caspian Region

You'll work with:

Members of our finance team are responsible for preserving the intellectual capital, assets, and integrity of BCG. We make a decisive impact on the firm’s direction, performance, and risk-management models. Finance jobs include accounting and reporting, planning and analysis, tax and treasury, financial systems, payroll, and executive compensation.

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