Senior Accountant - Strategic Position Porto

Senior Accountant - Strategic Position
Porto
Porto, Porto District, Portugal

Senior Accountant – Strategic Position

• Report Directly to the CFO
• Ownership of a Business Stream
• Opportunity to shape a fast growing company

This Senior Accountant position is with a fast growing International Company. The company provides professional services and has over 120 people based in Ireland, UK, Portugal, Malta and India. The company has been growing quickly and is expanding its critical finance operations to facilitate further growth.

In this newly created Senior Financial Accountant position, you will report directly to the CFO, and have dotted line into the CEO. You will have the opportunity to strategically impact the finance function and the broader organisation as the company continues to professionalise and reorganise its finance function.

You will join an existing team of 6 finance people based in Ireland and Portugal. You will have the opportunity in the coming months to manage and mentor more junior finance team members. The company has a Group structure and you will take full ownership of one of the business units and then participate in Group Finance functions.

This company has expanded and wishes to improve finance operations and accounting processes and there is an opportunity to contribute to implementing best practices to facilitate future growth. The business plans to grow and is expanding in 2 new international markets in 2025. You will be actively involved in one of these market expansions.

You will:

• Manage the finance function for 2 entities
• Manage and lead a small team for Accounts Receivable and other routine finance tasks
• Understand the government employment processes and payroll
• Manage KYC processes
• Identify and implement process improvements seeking efficiencies
• Drive the financial planning for market expansion
• Create controls and accountability of functions to ensure accuracy of financial records
• Run the
  - end and
  - end closing processes
• Assist document processes and contribute to training material and a knowledge base
• Assist in hiring and developing a finance function which will enable further growth
• Look for opportunities to drive cost reductions
• Assist in departmentalising and creating accountability/ownership for the finance function

Skills / Experience:

• Professional Accounting Qualification
• 6 + years professional experience
• 2 + years people management experience
• Experience as a Company Accountant within a company with a headcount of 100-500 people
• Fluent English

Advantages

• 2 + years payroll experience
• Examples of mentoring finance team members
• Experience with process improvement in a finance function
• Experience with structuring finance functions or examples of successful finance teams

Based in the Porto Office 5 days per week

€40, 000 - €50, 000

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