Job Description

Reporting & Location

The Team Lead SSC GL reports to the EMEA Record to Report Manager. The role is located in Beirut, Lebanon.

Mission

• As the SSC GL Team Lead, you will be responsible for overseeing the EMEA Shared Service Center General Ledger team located in Lebanon. You will play a pivotal role in transforming our financial operations, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring compliance with established policies and procedures while maintaining the deadlines.
• You will assist the EMEA Record to Report Manager with ad hoc tasks with focus on digitalization, optimization and process improvements
• You will work closely together with the SSC GL Team Lead based in Belgium.

Main Accountabilities

Team leadership and development:

• Recruit, onboard and train qualified team members
• Establish clear performance expectations & provide ongoing coaching
• Foster a positive and collaborative work environment, encouraging teamwork and professional growth among team members, and sharing best practices and knowledge
• Key expert in D365 in order to provide support to the team members in any system issues and to organize correct testing in Microsoft D365 F&O.

Process Optimization

• Identify areas for automation that enhance process efficiency
• Identify opportunities for process optimization, cost reduction and increased service quality
• Lead and support continuous improvement initiatives, encouraging a culture of innovation and efficiency
• Participate in different kind of projects (RPA, Onestream implementations, PowerApps/Power Automate, Set up PowerBI Dashboards), M&A integration and ERP migrations;

Compliance And Risk Management

• Ensure compliance with relevant accounting principles, policies, and regulatory requirements in all RTR activities.
• Collaborate with internal and external audit and finance teams to address any compliance or risk-related issues
• Develop and implement controls to safeguard financial data and mitigate risks

General Ledger

• Monitoring and report on the team’s KPI’s
• Ensure accurate, consistent, standard and timely GL process execution, including – but not limited to –, follow-up & review of reconciliation activities for balance sheet accounts, follow-up & review of journals and calculations according to the AFEM, and execution of checks on the correctness of the postings and reconciliations.
• Assist in the monthly analysis and review of the balance sheet and aged items.
• Assist in the monthly closing checks to ensure proper presentation of the balance sheet
• Perform all monthly activities within agreed deadlines.
• Review financial data from newly acquired entities in preparation of the ERP migration.
• Other occurring or necessary activities to improve the SSC process (including, for example, system changes).

Skills and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance/Accounting (strong knowledge of IFRS).
• Minimum 2–3 years of experience in R2R or Shared Services.
• Ownership, leadership and cross-functional collaboration
• Leadership without authority
• Conflict resolution and diplomacy
• Coaching and mentoring
• Strategic thinking and process awareness
• Strong stakeholder management
• Delivery of qualitative and reliable output;
• Hands–on mentality with flexibility regarding job duties and scope of work
• Enthusiasm