Financial Manager

POSITION SUMMARY

The Manager, Finance provides support and manages resources across different regions, including financial reporting and control, income management, debt management, submitting invoices for payment for Accounts Payable and accurately billing clients for services rendered. This Manager also oversees the functions performed by the Accounting Assistant, Financial Analysts, and other assigned financial staff.

As part of the DSV team, employees are expected to meet company objectives in the areas of performance, safety, and quality. Managers are expected to comply with all DSV corporate and site‑specific policies and requirements for leaders agers are expected to support, promote, and exemplify the core values of DSV consistently:
Customers First, Best Performance, and True Collaboration.

• Developing financial strategies: analyze revenue, expenses, investments, and risks to create a financial strategy.
• Perform analytical reviews of financial information to identify trends/opportunities.
• Recommend improvements to drive cost efficiencies in balance with operational needs and capabilities.
• Work with Operations team to develop budgets and forecast for financial performance.
• Create forecasts: use historical data to create forecasts.
• Report actual results and analysis vs. plan.
• Assist operations regarding cost budgets, quarterly forecasts, and other financial planning activities.
• Prepare reports: create reports to explain financial recommendations to senior management.
• Play a significant role in the accurate and timely preparation of internal financial reporting and analysis.
• Publish periodic financial reports, including but not limited to accounts payable, freight and consumable metrics.
• Set goals: help set financial goals and create a roadmap to achieve them.
• Participate in special projects as required, including process improvement and financial tools development and implementation.
• Management of financial process improvements, key performance indicators and tracking of strategic initiatives.
• Support various internal and external financial and system audits.
• Manage resources: manage and develop assigned resources effectively.
• Plan, organize and manage own workload to ensure timely and accurate monthly financial reporting.
• Ensure swift payment of invoices.
• Collect and confirm accuracy of all charges and expenses for a file to be billed.
• Manage Accounts Payable process: coordinate purchasing and tracking of vendor invoices through the system and associated revenue accruals.
• Financial month‑end close responsibilities: journal entries, corporate submissions, expense management, budgetary support for cost centers and ad‑hoc analysis.
• Prepare month‑end journal entries focused on cost accruals.
• Complete the monthly Client Profitability Model.
• Attend meetings as required, document and distribute meeting minutes.
• Manage sensitive and confidential information in a professional, mature, discreet, and secure manner.
• Create and disseminate various communications and reports.
• Design and develop presentations.
• Effectively communicate with employees, customers, suppliers, and others on behalf of site management.
• Identify opportunities: learn when and how operations can optimise assets and investments.
• Produce cost quotes, strategic business cases, risk assessments, and other ad‑hoc analysis in support of the business.
• Schedule and meet with vendors to ensure competitive pricing is maintained.

• Responsible for performance management of Accounting Assistant, Financial Analysts, and other assigned financial staff.
• Ensure training and development of team members.

• ABachelor's degree is required, preferably within accounting or finance.
• A minimum of 5 years of accounting, FP&A or finance experience is required.
• Minimum of 3 years in supervising direct reports.

• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills required (pivot tables, formulas, VLOOKUP functions).

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English (reading, writing, verbal).

• Strong math skills with emphasis on financial and accounting…