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Job description / Role
The Financial Reporting Manager is responsible for consolidating and reporting the MENA Regions financial statements, providing accurate, timely and complete information to the line manager and ensuring that financial statements are in compliance with IFRS.
Responsibilities:
- Review and analyze the Financial Reports of the group
- Review and consolidate monthly balance sheets submitted by offices
- Review and analyze the budget each entity.
- Review monthly group receivables and payables reports and follow up on pending balances
- Support offices in month end and year end closing
- Assist in the coordination of annual audits with external auditors and review audit reports for all entities
- Review monthly reconciliations of inter-company accounts and eliminate reconciling items
- Follow up on reporting tool implementation
- Communicate and explain accounting issues/policies and evolving accounting guidance to the Finance Managers
- Assist local finance managers in resolving accounting issues and problems
- Implement and maintain reporting procedures to comply with internal control requirements
- Deliver Ad hoc reports / analysis upon request
- Propose improvements to Regional Financial Controller in all reporting aspects (new applications, tools and enhanced templates)
- Follow up on any delayed deliverable by the offices.
- Manage and Monitor the work of the reporting team.
- Coach subordinates in all offices in order to build talents and improve their skills and knowledge.
Requirements
- Bachelor degree in Accounting or Finance (qualification, CPA/CA/ACCA preferred)
- IFRS & US GAAP knowledge and experience
- 5+ years audit and finance experience
- IT systems literate (financial and consolidation systems)
- Fluent in English, French, and Arabic
- Executive level communication skills to facilitate interaction with Region Senior Management
- Team player
About the Company
We are Mindshare. The global media network. We are nearly 6,000 people in 82 countries with one aim: to make our clients' brands more famous and more profitable
Our network is always on, always live. Our people are acutely aware of what's happening in their city, their country, their specialist area of expertise. We understand brands, markets and media. Most of all, we understand other people. The people we live with. The people we work with. The people we are.
We are thinkers and doers, relentless in the pursuit of success for our clients. We do this by continually seeking - and usually finding - the perfect connection between their products and potential customers. As our name suggests, we help them gain a greater share of consumers' minds.
In the past, we did this by using our skill and clout to plan and negotiate great deals with broadcasters and publishing houses. In the liberated, unpredictable, spectacular media world of the 21st century, we use our analysis and creativity to commission a group of specialists to create a stream of brilliant ideas and control them as we distribute them around the world.