Finance Director

Financial Control Management

• Ensure compliance with legal requirements.
• Ensure accounting and reporting processes and responsibilities are established, adhered to and managed.
• Ensure accounting controls are implemented and maintained.
• Reviews balance sheets and income statements.
• Assist business in budgeting process.
• Ensures affiliate T&Cs are in line with Group Policy and watch over their implementation.
• Review supplier payment conditions and settlement terms and address non-conformities.
• Watch over NWC requirements as well CAPEX spend.
• Ensure monthly, quarterly and yearly financial guidelines from Group are implemented.
• Carry out financial analyses of performance when required.
• Perform review of all Capex investment projects/proposals arising from business.
• Plan, establish and manage provisions and accruals management, including authorization by business (AP and A/R).
• Review inventory levels and recommend corrections, including yearly write-off for obsolescence.
• Keep on top of updates regarding fiscal, accounting, commerce legislation and international regulations applying to the affiliate.
• Support Managing Director (MD) in follow up of performance against plans, budgets and targets.
• Ensure budgeting procedures are in line with Group policy.
• Manage and push for improvements in Net Working Capital.
• Ensures compliance with group and local accounting standards.
• Ensure internal controls function in line with group requirement exist and are improved to protect company assets and ensure adherence to group standards and policy.
• Support acquisition process including due diligence and implementation.
• Perform any other reasonable tasks as assigned by direct line manager;
• Manage internal audit visits, ensure preparation, supply of documents and response of management comments.
• Ensure internal audit findings are corrected in line with timeline agreed in internal audit report and ensure internal control environment amended to address all internal control points.
• At all times, adhere to SGS safety, ethics and business continuity policies.

• Ensure business control processes and responsibilities are established, adhered to and managed.
• Communicate financial information effectively.
• Provide business with support to understand financial impacts of operational and commercial decisions (business control).
• Enable financial assessment of drivers of profitability and their link to operational set-up.
• Identify and communicate areas of risk – for an operation or a proposal.
• Forecast future performance based on understanding of operational set-up.
• Help identifying corrective actions where required (operations AND commercial/pricing).
• Support in checking profitability in business proposals.
• Provide robust but constructive challenge to business stakeholders.
• Clearly communicate the financial implications of proposals.

• Identify financial and risk issues in relation to corporate strategy.
• Delivering a workable strategic plan within known constraints.
• Ensure funding the organization’s operations is possible.
• Effective communication of financial and risk issues to colleagues.
• Provide information to enable prioritizing of investments.
• Support by monitoring progress against strategy (dashboards).

• Take charge of the Finance side of business projects, as defined per Managing and business.
• Translate corporate goals into a clear strategy for Finance.
• Develop plans (financial elements) to achieve corporate strategy.
• Ensure deployment of Group projects.

• Financial/ Business degree, Swiss Chartered/Certified accountant preferred.

• 10 years’ experience in a similar position.
• Experience in a multinational company.
• Experience in a matrix organization preferred.
• Must have a strong knowledge of financial accounting, budgeting, control, and reporting principles, methods, techniques, and standards.
• Leading the complete financial function.
• Must have knowledge of computerized financial information systems.
• Hyperion and HFM experience an advantage.
• Oracle Boss experience preferred.
• Experience of dealing with a shared service center.
• Must be able to travel domestically.

• Fluency in English and at least one national language (German or French) is required; proficiency in two national languages is considered a strong advantage (written and spoken).
• Strong communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills, including the ability to explain financial matters to non-finance stakeholders.
• Proven ability to build trust, act with discretion, and maintain confidentiality.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify issues and implement appropriate solutions.
• Ability to identify risks and develop effective mitigation measures and controls.
• Solid analytical capability, including the ability to interpret financial data and prepare reports, statements, and forecasts.
• Experience in executing performance management processes, with clear and measurable targets and objectives.
• Ability to work independently while…