Accounting & Regulatory Finance Manager

Key responsibilities/What you do

This role sits within the Group Accounting & Governance within the Finance Function. The Accounting & Governance Function ensures timely and accurate monthly, quarterly and annual ledger close and reporting under IFRS and local GAAP requirements and compliance to Solvency II regulation within Allianz Partners.

The ultimate goal of this role is to

• Ensure the quality of financial reporting’s of reported results, being accountable for their compliance with accounting internal and external regulations guidelines,

• Manage the communication and explanation of the financial reporting’s (together with P&C team) to internal external stakeholders, e g Local and regional senior management, local tax authority and regulators, external auditors

The role holder is accountable for the financial disclosures of the Paris branch of H&L entity, acting in compliance with respect to Environmental, social, and corporate principles established by the group:

• Ensure that all periodic financial reporting (monthly, quarterly and yearly) are timely disclosed in accordance with group internal deadlines and regulatory requirements, under accounting, tax and legal requirements.
• Ensure the consistency and appropriateness in accounting methods and the respect of accounting requirements across the Finance Factory, leading compliance with the business’s internal corporate and finance rules book.
• Perform financial analysis with the ultimate aim to ensure quality and reliability of financial reports

• Monitor the balance sheet accounts and ensure that proper and correct reconciliation have been implemented by Finance Factory, to provide a reliable situation of the financial statements.
• Monitor periodically the profit and loss accounts and ensure that proper and correct bookkeeping have been implemented by Finance Factory, to provide a reliable situation of the financial statements and of the profitability of the legal companies under responsibility.
• Support Finance Factory in order to ensure a correct and timely delivery of tax submissions, escalating in case of risks for the company that require mitigation actions and playing a role in coordinating ad-hoc tax audits.
• Coordinate external audits and ensure inputs are timely and with accuracy delivered
• Ensure a timely and proper execution of internal audits & closure of related findings, developing relevant controls, rules and guidelines to enhance governance and mitigate risks,
• Encourage and facilitate communication with other teams, with focus on the collaboration with team members of Finance Factory, acting in a diligent and fair way in order to support the correct performance of the tasks in their area of responsibility and proactively encourage the resolution of the issues that can harm the value of the company
• Collect from Finance Factory the necessary information to exercise his controlling duties over the financial reporting’s and processes performed.
• Support implementation of Group initiatives at legal entity level, and support and locally drive transformation as required by the company´s strategy.

Key requirements/What you bring

• Experienced qualified accountant
• Expérience in a multinational, complex matrix environment
• Demonstrable experience identifying and implementing solutions for complex queries
• Personal Effectiveness – highly motivated, proactive, customer centric, responsible and highly committed
• Demonstrable knowledge of the following tools: MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, SAP GR

Key benefits/What we offer

Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey.

We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring  that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.

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