Accounting Team Lead

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TMF Group is a leading provider of administrative services, helping clients invest and operate safely around the world. As we’re a global company with 11,000+ colleagues based in over 125 offices across 87 jurisdictions, we actively seek out people with the talent and potential to flourish at TMF Group, whatever their background, and offer job opportunities to the broadest spectrum of people. Once on board we nurture and promote talented individuals, making sure that senior positions are open to all.

Discover the Role

This Accounting Team Lead/Senior Accounting Team Lead will manage a complex portfolio of clients and will constantly develop working relationships with existing clients, prospects, and external advisers.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead a team responsible for the monthly analysis of accounts (TB, Balance Sheet, P&L), ensuring accuracy and correctness of the accounts, and providing insights and explanations on monthly movements, to a portfolio of complex clients.
- Be a Subject Matter Expert for GL / RTR / PTP / OTC, Financial reporting, and Statutory reporting related topics.
- Lead a team responsible for preparing Balance Sheet and P&L reconciliations, with the aim of ensuring the high quality and reliability of accounting records prepared by other TMF teams, and resolution of open items. Assess BS healthiness and surface risks to be addressed.
- Provide a set of financial information related to P&L and Balance Sheet during the monthly cycle to ensure accurate and timely postings of financial transactions, in order to deliver a timely period-end close. Activities include (but are not limited to) research & analysis of entries, preparation & review of journals, etc.
- Review the work prepared by other Team members to ensure that the activities are performed as expected.
- Perform in timely and accurate manner general accounting tasks including but not limited to processing journal entries, calculation of accruals, posting, and process allocations.
- Work with managers and team members to execute the TMF objectives and Goals as set by higher management.
- Work with the other TMF teams to ensure activities carried out are correct and assist in resolving queries and or issues; manage period end close. Review the documentation for certain month-end control process, ensuring full compliance with pre-defined requirements. Support control remediation where required.

- Produce routine analyses, schedules, and summaries for internal & external customers.
- Prepare, coordinate with external auditors and clients on audit deliverables as required.
- Able to coach and motivate a high-performance team member to achieve targets and service levels agreed (SLA).
- Engage with key internal and external finance and non-finance stakeholders as required and manage positive relationships.
- Contribute to and lead automation, standardization and improvements and drive these activities within the Team and with the Local Offices.
- Comply with TMF and Client accounting standards, policies, and procedures.
- Support, follow-up and escalation of identified issues.
- Understand, monitor, and take proper action regarding KPIs.
- Responsible for process and review of documentation i.e SOP (including creation and updates as required).
- Perform other related duties as and when assigned by manager.

Key Requirements

- Proven experience in a multi-country, multiple legal entity environment
- Previous experience in BPO/SSC/Centralized delivery model will be advantage.
- At least 5 years of experience in general ledger accounting/RTR, PTP and OTC area with supervisory/managerial experience
- Previous experience as people manager leading a team.
- Good knowledge of accounting, GAAP, corporate practices; IFRS knowledge will be an asset.
- MS Office literacy; SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Workday Financials, or other ERP systems as beneficial.
- Good English language skills (written and spoken)
- University degree/ACCA/CPA preferable in Accounting or Finance and with audit experience as beneficial
- Proactive and engaged attitude.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to details
- Continuous improvement mindset and process orientation and a solution orientated work approach
- Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve conflict in an effective and timely manner.

What’s in it for you?

Pathways for career development

- Work with colleagues and clients around the world on interesting and challenging work.
- We provide internal career opportunities so you can take your career further within TMF
- Continuous development is supported through global learning opportunities from the TMF Business Academy

Making an impact

- You’ll be helping us to make the world a simpler place to do business for our clients
- Through our corporate social responsibility program, you’ll also be making a difference in the communities where we work

A supportive environment

- Strong feedback culture to help build an engaging workplace
- Our inclusive work environment allows you to work from our offices around the world, as well as from home, helping you find the right work-life balance to perform at your best.

We’re looking forward to getting to know you!