Assistant Manager - Finance

Responsibilities

• Prepare Step Plan for individual companies that identifies (a) last published balance sheet and (b) steps required to close company showing legal and financial consequences of each step.
• Complete Document Template for each of the steps in the Step Plan.
• Identify assumptions in the Document Template that are not correct and work with internal teams to amend documentation.
• Conduct quality assurance activities on Document Templates prepared by other team members.
• Initiate due diligence workflow to confirm with internal colleagues that when at point a company will be closed, there will be no assets, no liabilities and no obligations.
• Update GEMS (Gallagher s entity management system) LER module with changes to LER status.
• Support the Global Finance Change Director with the development of tools: (a) GEMS LER module, (b) Due Diligence workflow and (c) CLM application that has all Document Templates.
• Support Global Finance Change Director with other corporate simplification activities.
• Experience in Statutory Accounts / Audit / Preparation and Consolidation of Financial Statements and good working knowledge of accounting standards (US/UK GAAP/IFRS).
• Demonstrate strong project management experience, including planning, tracking deliverables, managing timelines, identifying risks and issues, process improvement, and LER -related initiatives.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously and coordinate cross-functionally to meet strict project execution deadlines.
• Partner with stakeholders across Divisional teams as role requires coordinating multiple internal colleagues.
• Experience of preparing and/or reviewing documents to support changes in corporate structure of a company (eg share issue, capital reduction).
• Proficient computer, financial data, internal consulting, and customer-focused communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to build solutions, drive consensus across stakeholders and help them make the right choices.
• Superior attention to detail and ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities while maintaining a view of the "big picture".
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and adapt to a changing, fast-paced environment.
• Excellent Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Excellent planning and organizing skills, especially prioritizing multiple projects / tasks.
• Must be able to work with the onshore team to understand and take on activities.

Qualifications

• 5 - 10 years post qualifying as a Chartered Accountant; 5-7 years - AM; 7-10 years - DM Chartered Accountant
• Project management qualification

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