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As the Finance Operations Director, you will be responsible for enhancing effectiveness and efficiency of the finance function, ensuring optimal utilization of all resources to increase return while minimizing risk to the Company. An ideal candidate will have a proven track-record of driving finance transformation via successful achievement of OKRs, including but not limited to developing, streamlining, and optimizing process and systems, leveraging technology to solve complex problems. Candidates who have strong experience with Internal Audit and SOX including in a leadership capacity is a big plus. To be successful in this role, you will need strong managerial, analytical and system skills, a partnership orientation for working with business colleagues and the ability to effectively manage and drive key finance initiatives and projects to completion to achieve superior results in both the short and long term.
Key responsibilities include:
Partner with finance leaders to assess and analyze organizational knowledge and skill gaps and design and drive change management through new development and implementation of finance enablement program and initiatives to increase effectiveness and efficiency of the finance function
Establish effectiveness and efficiency reporting and measurements, generate training materials and reference documents, and conduct quarterly employee training to increase productivity and quality of output while ensuring satisfactory compliance and minimizing risk to the Company
In collaboration with Internal Audit and SOX team, lead the improvement of internal audit and SOX framework and provide recommendations to manage and minimize risk to the company. Provide insights and recommendations on emerging risks and regulatory changes. Execute on accepted recommendations and other enhancements.
Drive effective and creative use of information technology, coupled with other institutional resources, to bring about greater organizational effectiveness and the advancement of business systems supporting various functions
Proactively partner, develop, and maintain effective working relationships and collaborations with finance team members as well as leaders across the organization to identify, understand, and address key business needs to support growth at scale while managing risk
Systematically anticipate, recognize, control risks, ensure data integrity, and measure performance over time using metrics, data, and analysis to improve performance
Responsible for project managing key finance projects, following up with relevant parties to ensure timely submission of deliverables in standardized formats; establish effective priority-setting processes for major projects and allocation of resources to achieve schedule and budget objectives
Assist in building and managing a high performance finance function and serve as the social chair in managing team bonding events, budget, and expenses
You are/have:
An independent, self-motivated individual who works well under pressure with a positive, service-oriented attitude
Self-starter with a great work ethic and an analytical thinker with superior problem solving and decision-making skills, possessing the initiative to create presentations and analysis from scratch to answer questions posed and look into the details and interpret the impact of key business drivers
Extremely detail-oriented and organized with prior experience having gathered, structured, monitored, and validated data to ensure data integrity and detailed documentation; has developed a habit of checking the accuracy of data and analysis several times over before submitting for review
Significant expertise setting up automated processes to increase the effectiveness of the team and minimize room for error
Excellent multi-tasker who is always “on it” with stellar time and project management skills; understands the importance of planning in advance to meet deadlines that include multiple review points and iterations
Strong communicator, both written & verbal; reliable and responsive to email and phone communications; and
Highest level of integrity and good judgment, with the ability to effectively deal with highly sensitive, confidential information
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in finance or related discipline
Minimum 10 years of experience in finance operations; demonstrated track-record of ensuring data integrity, measuring, tracking, and trending performance data to improve effectiveness and efficiency of finance function
Strong knowledge of SOX compliance requirements and internal control frameworks (e.g., COSO). Experience leading Internal Audit and/or SOX functions in the past is a plus
Systems expertise: highly proficient with NetSuite, Salesforce, Anaplan, and MS Office applications