Tax & General Accounting Manager

1. Treasury & Cash Management :

• Ensure efficient cash management and forecasting in order to optimize the Company’s working capital and to help management in decision making
• Oversee the implementation of ECL Treasury initiatives in order to maximize use of available resources
• Follow up with Distributors on billing and cash collection and Supply Chain on import goods, goods selling, returns or destruction (if any)

2. Tax Management:

• Handling day-to-day tasks and the tax audit process
• Ensure compliance with tax regulations
• Help prepare financial statements, tax returns, and other accounting documents as required
• Resolve accounting and tax-related queries with stakeholders
• Collaborate with teams to gather or prepare financial data, requested documents and reports for tax audits
• Analyze the organization’s business activities and advise management on tax & accounting matters and impacts of the business transactions and decisions
• Keep teams updated on tax audit status

3. Management Accounting :

• Review and approve recording of financial transactions in order to ensure compliance with tax regulations and corporate policies and procedures
• Analyze accounts in order to ensure that financial statements submitted for FIE & RO with IFRS
• Review and submit reports within set deadline in order to comply with ALA and ECL reportorial requirements
• Present and justify the submitted financial statements to the accounts committee in order to foster the level of confidence on said reports by ALA and ECL
• Interface with internal and external auditors in order to uphold the reliability of the financial statements.
• Anticipates, provides alert and takes the lead on issues that will impact the local/statutory books (e.g. IFRS implementation, capital increase, crisis management, integration, mergers, etc.)
• Review and approve recording of financial transactions on strategic and regular accounts in order to ensure compliance with tax regulations, VAS rules and corporate policies and procedures
• Review and approve recording of corresponding accruals and provisions in order to ensure its correctness and adequacy in compliance with accounting principles and standards
• Anticipate risks and impact on financial reporting and each company’s assets

4. ERP Systems and processes :

• Lead SAP Project and support business as key user as well as ensure alignment of other reporting and planning systems with SAP
• Ensure any changes impacting FA and reporting are properly implemented
• Provide technical expertise and advice on accounting & financial issues to functional or operational departments to help them develop revenue and expense budgets, understand financial reports, and manage their financial responsibilities
• Ensure the effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting and documentation of such internal controls in his/her area of responsibility.
• Identity and implement best practices on the execution of Accounting and Treasury policies and procedures

5. Project Management:

• Provide support to projects carried out in the Finance Department
• Take the lead to contribute actively in every aspect of our Company business operations to assist our business divisions in scaling our business and meeting our Company business targets
• Support management for ad hoc events and special requests

6. People Management :

• Regular review, assessment and coaching of Accounting and Treasury team in order to best optimize the available resources
• Develop a high-performance culture within the team in order to ensure succession for all direct reports and that high potential candidates have a clear career path.