- The legal-entity and branch scope schedule
- The chart-of-accounts design: principles, segments, reporting hierarchies and the mapping of both legacy charts
- The intercompany, consolidation and multi-currency design
- The close-calendar design
- The basic system design for Finance: ledgers, legal entities and business units
- The finance controls and policy framework, with the segregation-of-duties rules
- The statutory, tax and reporting map by country
- The validated finance baseline, and Finance’s sign-off of the business case assumptions
- Finance’s sign-off of the Level-3 finance processes, the operating model and the fit-to-standard decisions
- The finance content of the tender pack: requirements, statutory schedules, and the standards for the close and reconciliation
Essential skills and experience
- Chartered accountant: ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent
- 12+ years in finance, including financial control or finance transformation in multi-entity groups
- Finance lead on at least one ERP selection or implementation, from design to go-live
- Client-side lead alongside a consulting firm on process and operating-model design
- Design of the chart of accounts, the enterprise structure and the close across entities, currencies and accounting frameworks
- Intercompany and consolidation design in a multi-entity group
- IFRS, including IFRS 18, and UK or Belgian GAAP; a GBP and EUR multi-currency close
- Fit-to-standard process design on a cloud ERP
- Design of financial controls and segregation of duties, and of the evidence that proves each control
- Native-level English, with full conversational business French or better
- Clear writing for executives and bidders, and the standing to challenge consultants and integrators
- Experience in rail or transport
- Post-merger finance integration
- Belgian and French statutory, VAT and e-invoicing requirements
- The data requirements of the OECD Pillar Two rules
- Finance automation: straight-through processing, and AI in the close and in reconciliation
- Experience with Oracle E-Business Suite, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Kyriba or BlackLine
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