Finance Manager - Global Shared Services at DNV GL

Job description

Local Unit & Position Description

About The Role

The Africa area for DNV GL includes the following countries Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tunisia and South Africa. The GSS Finance team supports the Oil & Gas, Maritime, Business assurance, Energy and Software Business Areas.

The successful candidate will have excellent people management skills, experience within change management and a strong customer centric mind-set.

This role will report to the IMEA Regional Manager GSS Finance and be based in Cape Town.

The focus shall be on our customers, delivering quality services, with continuous improvement on customer satisfaction, having a solution oriented mind-set and being recognized as a valued service provider.

As GSS Finance Area Lead, you will be responsible for delivery of consistent accounting processes and practices such that all financial submissions, across all business areas, are both accurate, timely, and in compliance with Group policies and procedures.

In addition, you must ensure that all local financial statutory compliance (audit, financial statements and tax) is adhered to and in line with internal deadlines; and any local support required to close out the Group’s consolidated statutory reporting requirements are delivered in a timely manner.

You will partner with the Business Areas’ (BA) Finance Managers to ensure all financial analyses and business partnering is built off a foundation of strong financial control.

You will play a leadership role in the organisation’s local deployment of key strategic projects (e.g. Legal Entity rationalisation, Finance system roll out) and implementation of Group wide finance initiatives.

Main tasks

In achieving success, you will be responsible for the following

• Control the internal financial compliance agenda, working closely with the BA teams to ensure that Group accounting policies, procedures and timelines are adhered to
• Enhance the quality and accuracy of the financial reporting
• Ensure financial stewardship and compliance in accordance with DNV GL Chart of Authority and local statutory regulation
• Oversee, monitor and track legal entity statutory financial reporting such that all filings in the Region are filed ahead of local statutory deadlines
• Partner with Group tax to ensure all tax risks in the Region are reported to the central team and all local filing requirements are adhered to
• Partnering with the BAs, you will play a key role in taking ownership for the follow-up actions that come out of Audit reports / findings
• Implement a series of key financial controls in the Region such that the correctness of all financial information is self-regulated
• Create a motivating work environment with focus on quality and continuous improvement
• Training and development of Shared Service staff to meet capability requirement
• Participate in all major change initiatives within the area

Position Qualifications

Qualifications

• Educational background within Finance (BA or MA level)
• Internationally recognised Professional Accounting Qualification.
• Experience of working at a senior level within a global finance organisation.
• International orientation and preferably experience in leading multicultural teams
• Process improvement qualifications a benefit
• Capable of building strong relationships with key stakeholders
• Ability to enhance business performance by challenging and identifying & delivering improvements
• A strong team player and leader, capable and confident to challenge
• Pragmatic, result-oriented and highly focused on generating ideas into action
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
• Written and verbal communication skill in the following languages is an advantage Portuguese, French

Company & Business Area Description

Driven by our purpose of safeguarding life, property and the environment, DNV GL enables organizations to advance the safety and sustainability of their business. We provide classification and technical assurance along with software and independent expert advisory services to the maritime, oil & gas and energy industries. We also provide certification services to customers across a wide range of industries.

Combining leading technical and operational expertise, risk methodology and in-depth industry knowledge, DNV GL empowers our customers’ decisions and actions with trust and confidence. We continuously invest in research and collaborative innovation to provide customers and society with operational and technological foresight.

Originated in 1864, DNV GL operates globally in more than 100 countries with our 13,550 professionals dedicated to helping our customers make the world safer, smarter and greener.

The global shared services group ( GSS) within DNV GL provide support services and key competencies in Finance, Human resources, IT, Real Estate and Procurement. GSS strategic goals are to provide high quality, cost efficient support services to all business areas and to the group. GSS shall deliver high quality support services, fully aligned with Group policies and in compliance with laws and regulations of the countries where we operate.