Regional Finance Manager - DACH

Overview

Company Background Vialto Partners is a market leader in global mobility services. Our purpose is to ‘Make global work feel borderless and boundless’. We are unique and the only stand-alone global mobility business. This presents a rare opportunity for our clients, stakeholders and colleagues. Our teams help companies streamline and effectively manage their global mobility programs in a cost-efficient and compliant manner, focusing on cross-border compliance and risk assessment for tax, immigration, business travel, rewards and compensation, and remote work. Globally, Vialto Partners has over 6,500 staff in over 50 countries and continues to grow. We work with clients from a range of industries and locations. We believe in connecting the world and supporting our colleagues to broaden their skills and benefit our clients. Our culture emphasises belonging and the opportunity to grow our careers globally.

Summary Of Role Are you ready to elevate your career in a dynamic tech scale-up environment? We are looking for an experienced and proactive Regional Financial Controller to join our international team. In this pivotal role, you will be a key partner to the local Market Leader supporting Austria, Germany and Switzerland Markets, responsible for all finance activities within the Market, collaborating with client engagement teams, and supporting working capital management, month-end and year-end closing activities.

Major Responsibilities

• Coordinate all activity for annual budgets, periodic forecasting, and business plan updates.
• Assist in the preparation of monthly operating reviews, including analysis of historical financials, variance explanations, updated forecasts with risks and opportunities to current plan, and key performance indicators.
• Provide management reporting to Market and business unit leadership, including variance analysis to demonstrate how the budget/forecast and prior period compares against actual performance.
• Support month-end and year-end closing to fulfil both internal reporting and external statutory reporting.
• Ensure regular client billing takes place, identifying opportunities to minimise WIP.
• Ensure accurate revenue recognition through regular WIP reconciliations, quarterly attestation and minimising aged WIP.
• Monitor and drive achievement of performance targets such as billing and collection goals, staff utilization, margin analysis, VVN utilisation, etc.
• Act as the local contact for all queries/requests from the centralised debt collection team.
• Coordinate and communicate with Tax Authorities, Tax Advisors, Auditors and Banks.
• Investigate and resolve any finance or admin queries raised by the client engagement team, working with other finance departments and IT.
• Collaborate with Group functions such as Legal, Tax and HR on regulatory and statutory compliance when required.
• Ensure local compliance with all Group policies and processes, reporting all material issues or non-compliance to regional management.
• Deliver ad-hoc analysis and projects as requested by territory leader or Europe CFO.
• Ensuring that all monthly reports and filings to various government bodies (tax returns, statistics reporting) are completed accurately and on time.
• Support in audits, including both internal and external.

Desired Capabilities And Skills

• Strong business acumen and focus on working capital management.
• Practical and commercial approach to problem solving or analysis.
• Analytical and results oriented.
• Proactive; always a self-starter.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including good command of spoken and written English.
• Collaborative and diplomatic approach when dealing with Business Leadership, the Controller organization, Treasury, Tax, IT, or colleagues.
• Able to leverage available technology tools.

Education / Training / Experience

• Significant experience with a professional services company or Big 4 firm desirable.
• Experienced in preparing budgets, forecasts, and financial analysis.
• Detailed understanding of accounting processes (revenue recognition, billing, working capital management, AP, payroll, corporate expense allocations and intercompany).
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably Accounting or Finance.
• Formal accounting qualification desirable.
• Fluency in German & English is a must.
• Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA desirable.
• Experience in drafting Statutory Accounts under local GAAP.
• Experience in US GAAP desirable.

Additional Information

• Regular, full-time role.
• Hybrid working out of Frankfurt office 3 days as agreed with CFO / Market Leader.

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