Job description / Role
Purpose of the job
Responsible for the planning, managing and running all the finance Operations activities including commercial accounting, commission, consolidation & reporting, accounts payables, ledger, consignment, stock control and fixed assets.
Duties and responsibilities
- Ensure full compliance with company policies and procedures.
- Control the budget and the resources of the department.
- Recommend policies and procedures to improve business practices.
- Raise new ideas and initiatives that could have been overlooked by other departments.
- Lead continuous business improvement and development activities.
- Implemented major cost controls and stricter processes,
- Leading all Finance Operations related function including (General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Commercial Accounting, direct/indirect commission control, Retail Accounting, Roaming Operations, Finance System, Cash Operations, Fixes Assets Operations, Consolidation and Group Reporting & Subsidiaries management)
- Full responsibility of Company's Financial Statements consolidation and standalone including all related corporate governance (Audit Committee, Control Committee)
- Assist the CFO in Board and Audit Committee preparation, a strategic direction and positioning to ensure the Corporation's success
- Create, coordinate, and evaluate the financial controls and supporting information systems of the Corporation
- Approve and coordinate changes and improvements to disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting
- Ensure that effective internal controls are in place and take steps to enhance, where necessary, the internal control systems within the Corporation.
Planning, Organizing and Budgeting
- Set clear guidelines and objectives for financial and accounting operations.
- Ensure full compliance with company policies and procedure.
- Participate in establishing or recommending to higher management major financial objectives and policies.
- Assess the quality of accounting data sources and implement the required changes.
- Manage departments annual budget and control expenses.
- Coordinate with managers under his/her responsibility in both short and long term strategies to achieve the overall objective of the department.
People Management
- Interview and select direct reports and validate hiring decisions for the department.
- Provide coaching and request needed training for direct reports ensuring continuous individual development.
- Ensure a healthy working environment for the department employees through focusing on team building and motivation initiatives.
- Conduct regular performance and competency evaluations for direct reports while delivering constant constructive feedback for higher achievements and further development.
Requirements
Job specifications
Education
- Bachelor's degree from a recognized university.
- Masters degree in Business Administration.
Experience
- Minimum 18 years of experience in Finance, 10 of which in an upper management Role.
- Demonstrated experience in working with senior management team (CEO, VPs & Directors).
- An operational experience in a Telecom company would be preferred.
Skills and abilities
- Fluent English both spoken and written.
- Very good computer skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills to be able to present sophisticated and complex materials and issues and get the audience involvement.
- High team work orientation to be able to effect cooperation among subordinates with diverse mentalities and performing different functions.
- Result orientation to be able to lead difficult projects and initiatives and achieve results even when faced with strong resistance.
- Flexible and able to work under pressure even with constant changing requirements.
- Strong planning and organizing skills to the degree of leading corporate wide projects.
- Excellent leadership skills to be able to inspire and lead others (whether direct subordinates or others) into achieving tangible results.
- Excellent analytical and decision making skills to the degree of taking high risk decisions for the interest of the business.
- Business sense and comprehensive vision.
About the Company
Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with sales of 43.5 billion euros in 2022 and 136,000 employees worldwide at 31 December 2022, including 75,000 employees in France. The Group has a total customer base of 287 million customers worldwide at 31 December 2022, including 242 million mobile customers and 24 million fixed broadband customers. The Group is present in 26 countries. Orange is also a leading provider of global IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies under the brand Orange Business.