Finance Operations Manager

Summary

Join Tide, a rapidly growing business management platform, as their Shared Services Manager. You will lead a team, build and own the Global Finance Shared Services function, encompassing accounts payable, receivable, reconciliations, and more. This role requires managing day-to-day transactional activities, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, implementing operational KPIs, and assisting with audits. You will establish standard operating procedures and a robust control framework. The ideal candidate possesses experience in MNCs or financial services, leading shared services, and is a qualified accountant with 5+ years of experience. Tide offers a competitive salary, flexible working arrangements, and various benefits.

Requirements

• Experience working in MNCs or financial services
• Experience leading a shared services function
• Qualified accountant with 5 years+ experience
• Experienced in working with large data sets
• Confident in business partnering across the organisation and collaborating with departments outside of Finance
• You are an autonomous worker who takes ownership of their responsibilities and requires minimal hands-on management
• Excellent commercial acumen
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Ability to stick to tight deadlines
• Exceptional organisational skills
• Curious mind and high level of problem solving capability
• Motivated by making a difference and getting things done
• You would like to work in a fast-paced, startup environment
• Personable, and able to build strong working relationships
• Tech savvy
• Strong Microsoft Excel/Gsheet skills
• Experience with SAP S4Hana

Responsibilities

• Leading the finance operations team of 3-5 direct reports
• Responsible for day-to-day transactional activities including accounts receivable, accounts payable, expenses and bank reconciliations within the accounting system
• Responsible for conducting comprehensive reviews of payment batches from inception to completion for weekly payment processing, ensuring accurate verification, matching, and inclusion of supplier bank details
• Collaborating with the Treasury team to facilitate timely payment processing and subsequently sharing remittance information to suppliers post-payment
• Collaborating closely with suppliers and internal budget owners to manage the AP process ensuring supplier bank details are verified, budget owners in the business approve invoices in a timely manner and suppliers are paid within the agreed terms
• Building the Global Finance Shared Services functions, establishing standard operating procedures and robust control and Quality Assessment framework that can be applied to shared services operations activities globally
• Implementing operational KPIs to measure activity and productivity
• Liaising with local entity controllers
• Assisting with preparing and collating support documentation and reconciliations for the external audit
• Undertaking regular balance sheet substantiation processes
• Assisting with weekly cash flow forecasting activities
• Maintain our Finance Mailboxes and internal ticketing system ensuring all queries are responded to accurately and professionally
• Identifying opportunities to streamline and improve operations, processes and productivity
• Ad hoc support tasks as required

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Self & family health insurance
• Term & life insurance
• OPD benefits
• Mental wellbeing through Plumm
• Learning & development budget
• WFH setup allowance
• 25 days annual leave
• Family & friendly leave