**Reports to:**

Chief Financial Officer

**Job Purpose**

To strengthen financial control by ensuring robust accounting, disciplined payment and cost control, and effective financial operations (FinOps), while supporting finance leadership with reliable reporting and analysis.

**Key Responsibilities**

Accounting & Financial Control

• Support the preparation and review of monthly financial reporting, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and adherence to accounting policies and IFRS.

• Act as a key sparring partner to the Head of Accounting & Tax on technical accounting matters, audits, and review of outputs from external accounting firms.

• Support month-end close processes, including accruals, reconciliations, and variance analysis.

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of accounting processes, controls, and documentation.

Payment Control & Working Capital

• Support payment controlling activities, including monitoring cash outflows, vendor payments, and adherence to approval frameworks.

• Support credit control activities, including monitoring AR ageing, follow-up on overdue balances, and coordination with commercial teams.

• Provide visibility on working capital movements and payment trends across EMEA entities.

**FinOps & Cost Discipline**

• Support on insights into spending trends, cost drivers, and cost-saving initiatives, with a strong focus on operational and IT-related spend.

• Support cost allocation, charge-back mechanisms, transfer pricing to improve cost transparency.

• Support the monitoring of business performance against budget and business plan with a focus on cost control and financial efficiency.

Budgeting, Forecasting & Projects

• Support in the annual budgeting process, coordinating inputs from Sales, Operations, IT, and HR.

• Support forecasting and financial controlling for construction and infrastructure projects across the group.

Systems & Data

• Act as an advanced Oracle NetSuite user, supporting finance operations, reporting, and process optimisation.

• Support ERP-related improvements, including data quality, reporting structures, and user adoption.

• Perform ad hoc financial and operational analysis as required by senior management.

**Skills, Experience & Qualifications**

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting, Audit, Finance, or Economics.

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in accounting, audit, controlling, or consulting.

• Strong knowledge of accounting principles and IFRS reporting standards.

• Hands-on experience with Oracle NetSuite is highly valued.

• Strong Excel and MS Office skills; comfort working with financial systems and data.

• High proficiency in written and spoken English.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain financial topics clearly to non-finance stakeholders.

• Detail-oriented, structured, and comfortable operating in a hands-on, fast-growing environment.