Finance Manager - EMEA

Job Description

Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) is one of the world's leading wine companies. We know that it's the thinkers, makers and doers who have the most impact as we continue to strive towards being recognised as the world's most admired premium wine company. We are proud of our portfolio of brands that have tremendous heritage, rich quality and a reputation for excellence across the globe.

From the iconic luxury of Penfolds, to the broad appeal of Lindeman's and newer brands like 19 Crimes, we are committed to creating memorable wine experiences for our consumers.

As Finance Manager for the EMEA region, reporting into the Global Finance Delivery Lead (Australia based), you will lead the in-region Record‑to‑Report operations within a global shared services framework, ensuring accurate and timely financial close, supported by an offshore delivery team.

This role provides oversight and governance of audits, and statutory and regulatory reporting requirements for multiple legal entities, while driving process efficiency and continuous improvement across onshore and offshore activities, to enable global standardisation.

As a member of the EMEA Finance Leadership Team, (dotted line into the EMEA Finance Director), the position builds strong relationships with regional, divisional, and global stakeholders, facilitating appropriate business ownership to enable effective processes end‑to‑end.

The role is supported by an onshore Finance Analyst who is primarily responsible for the co‑ordination of the regional statutory reporting requirements and will provide support across EMEA Record‑to‑Report activities.

• Lead the RTR offshore outsourced EMEA team to ensure month‑end, quarter‑end, and year‑end close activities are timely, complete and accurate for journals, balance sheet reconciliations and reporting, prepared by the RTR team.
• Provide training and guidance to offshore teams on evolving policies, controls and changes to business processes, including supporting the transition of new activities into R2R as and when they arise.
• Provide coaching and support to enable continuous improvement, driving global standardisation and efficiency, thinking global - not just local.
• Ensure control gaps within offshore team processes are mitigated and implemented, documenting corrective actions - with support of business SMEs, as required.
• Monitor the performance of the offshore outsourced team, including KPI / SLAs and error rates, relating to offshore delivery responsibilities.

• Ensure timely month‑end, quarter‑end, and year‑end month end close processes are operating effectively in region, with support from relevant business SMEs and offshore delivery team.
• Validate the accuracy, integrity and completeness of journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, governance requirements and reporting prepared by the TBS onshore and offshore team.
• Identify, escalation and support mitigation of financial risks related to the balance sheet, reporting, journals and reconciliations.
• Support Global R2R Finance peers in the preparation of consolidated divisional reporting, providing regional insights and analysis (mainly for revenue cut off/recognition at balance dates, stat account analysis, and insights supporting the governance activities).
• Work closely with the regional finance teams to build mutual understanding of the commercial business performance and balance sheet activity, to assist in the identification of potential risk in the balance sheet that may impact the P&L (and vice versa).

• Work with Global Finance Delivery Lead to ensure all accounting activities across RTR processes are executed effectively and efficiently with appropriate controls, with an end‑to‑end view.
• Support continuous improvement through elimination, standardisation and automation, without business disruption.
• Represent TBS / R2R on strategic projects in region, including business changes, market changes, regulatory changes, system integrations and process changes.

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