Overall Purpose of the Job: Role is to be the right hand of Head of Brand Finance and support the Head of Brand Finance in the following areas of responsibilities: Animate the Budget and Forecast process Oversee the month-end operations and ensure that risks and opportunities are adequately managed, in terms of reporting compliance and internal control best practice Variance analysis of the profit centers income statements Validation of day-to-day operations: approval of vendor creation, urgent payment requests, customer refund, travel expenses, ***, exceptional journal entries,… Coordinate bursars operations (training, HR administration, guidelines, performance monitoring,…) Monitor quality of internal control throughout the school sites Project management: business process improvement initiatives Transformation: drive the transition of the Brand Finance organization to the desired state organization, in terms of roles&responsibilities, processes and tools. Main short term deliverable in the roadmap: 1. drive enhancement of Group Shared Services output to allow migration of transactional activities (billing-to-collection, procure-to-pay) from Schools to GSS and 2. Define business requirements for implementation of new ERP Microsoft 365 and integration with other systems (STASY, APS,…) Controller of GSS operations: quality of deliverables and adherence to SLA, ensure superior performance delivered by facilitating performance improvement from the brand and customer perspective Duties: Control GSS operations and enhance GSS key processes: billing process and procure-to-pay: Develop a cross functional annual billing calendar to ensure that procedures are correctly implemented by all stakeholders Develop with GSS the KPI measuring the quality of GSS processes, monitor the KPI and drive implementation of solutions and action plans Bring on board and introduce industry best practise in billing and procure-to-pay processes Ensure implementation and continuous tracking of action plans Develop procurement strategy and process Project manage migration of other transactional activities to GSS Budget and Forecast Guidelines, timetable and template Consolidation and analysis Challenge profit centers (schools) Based on quarterly forecast, develop recovery plans to deliver and exceed Business plan Business process improvement projects&refining of dashboards Setting up new process and contracts for hire of premises Compare the terms and conditions across all schools of the third parties renting premises Propose new standardized contract and rental rate and implement it Educate and raise awareness/run workshops on how to implement the new contracts and how to manage these post implementation Set up the necessary dashboards that consolidate and reflect all ad-hoc services as per a-b above Oversee financial operations Risk manage month-end and year-end operations (compliance and internal control) Improve internal control system in all sites Validate day-to-day finance operations Variance analysis of P&L and Balance sheet Stakeholder management Work with the FM to ensure principal queries on finance related queries are managed timeously Assist in identifying gaps and subsequent training needs of principals in an effort to improve their financial understanding Minimum Requirements: B-Com Accounting, Finance or Business administration Good knowledge and affinity of expected best practice in the GSS type model Excel (basic functions such as vlookup, pivot table) Data Analysis #J-18808-Ljbffr