Job Description
Overview
The Group Finance Manager is a pivotal role in Kovena's finance team, responsible for the accuracy and integrity of consolidated financial statements for our global payments and SaaS business. This role is critical in driving; efficient group reporting, compliance, and accuracy with intercompany transactions. The role also leads process improvement and automation to support the businesses rapid scale-up. The ideal candidate is highly analytical, detail-oriented, with strong technical accounting knowledge and complex group consolidation experience.
Key Responsibilities:
Group Reporting and Intercompany Management
- Manage the timely and accurate preparation of monthly and annual consolidated financial statements.
- Execute and oversee rigorous intercompany reconciliation and elimination processes across all subsidiaries to ensure accurate group-level reporting.
- Maintain tight control and strong compliance over payables and operating costs.
- Assist the Finance Director in overseeing payments settlements and cross-border financial flows.
- Ensure reporting compliance with all relevant accounting standards and statutory requirements across all operating jurisdictions.
- Prepare detailed variance analysis for senior management, explaining differences between actual results, budget, and forecasts.
Process Improvement and Automation for Scale
- Enhance the reconciliation and consolidation processes; efficiency, accuracy, and control through automation, implementing tools and ai to support company scale-up.
- Drive the standardization of group-wide financial processes (working with the Finance Director), focusing on intercompany and payments workflows, including the creation of processes and procedures.
- Risk Management: Identify financial risks and implement mitigation strategies.
- Ensure strong internal controls are maintained over the financial reporting process and internal settlements.
- Assist in the integration of financial systems and processes for newly acquired entities.
- Assist the budgeting and forecasting process by providing historical data and technical guidance.
Accounting, Tax and Compliance
- Serve as a technical accounting resource for the Group, researching and documenting conclusions on complex accounting issues (e.g., acquisition accounting, hedging)
- Develop and maintain the Group Accounting Policy manual, ensuring consistency and adherence across all subsidiaries.
- Work with CFO, Finance Director and Advisors to ensure transfer pricing and other tax artefacts are in place to ensure compliance and an optimised tax position.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- A recognized professional accounting qualification (e.g.,Vietnamese Accounting Standards (VAS) and the Chief Accountant Certificate or ACCA, CPA).
- Minimum of 7 years + of progressive experience in an accounting role, with significant experience in multi-geographic group consolidation and financial reporting, preferably within a large, multi-national organisation.
- Demonstrable experience managing complex intercompany processes and reconciliations for a global business.
- Strong compliance experience, particularly related to payments, settlements, and cross-border transactions.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and data analysis.
- Proactive, hands on approach with strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Strong proficiency in English.
Preferred
- Experience in driving or implementing finance process automation projects.
- Experience within a global technology business or payments business.
- Experience with Xero Cloud-base software
What you'll get
- This position is Work From Home. 8.30am to 5.00pm, Monday to Friday (Vietnam time) save that you shall be expected to work such hours as are reasonably needed to undertake the role and co-ordinate with the Global team (US, AU-based team)
- Friendly and Supportive team
- Other Benefits will be provided.
