Senior Finance Manager Europe & Latin America (m/f/d)

Our client is a leading international corporation in its industry (Manufacturing). As part of its sustainable and successful development we are now looking to fill the new position "Senior Finance Manager Europe & Latin America (m/f/d)" for the group's Corporate-headquarter based in the heart of the very attractive "Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan-area" (Germany).

• The "Senior Finance Manager Europe & Latin America (m/f/d)" is a new senior leadership-role responsible for overseeing all financial management, commercial finance- and supply-chain finance-activities across the Europe- & Latin America-regions. This role ensures strong financial governance, consistent application of accounting-policies and full compliance with regional tax- and regulatory-requirements.
• Description
• Key Responsibilities
• Financial Leadership & Strategy
• Lead all regional financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes to support business objectives.
• Partner with commercial- and operational-leaders to drive profitable growth and optimise financial performance.
• Provide strategic insights and analysis to support decision-making at both regional and global levels.
• Lead the implementation of corporate finance-initiatives across the region, ensuring alignment with global strategy.
• Commercial Finance
• Oversee pricing, margin-analysis and customer profitability-initiatives to support commercial strategies.
• Drive financial evaluation of business cases, investments and new market opportunities.
• Collaborate with Sales- & Marketing-teams to ensure financial rigor in commercial decisions.
• Cost Accounting & Operations Finance
• Supervise cost accounting, inventory-valuation and manufacturing-finance across regional operations.
• Ensure accurate product costing, cost control and variance-analysis in collaboration with supply-chain and operations teams.
• Drive continuous improvement in cost efficiency and financial transparency in manufacturing and distribution sites.
• Accounting & Compliance
• Ensure the consistent application of corporate accounting-policies in line with IFRS and local statutory requirements.
• Oversee the integrity and accuracy of regional financial statements and reporting-packages.
• Monitor tax compliance across all regional entities, ensuring adherence to local tax-laws, transfer pricing-regulations and corporate guidelines.
• Partner with internal and external auditors to ensure effective controls and compliance.
• Team Leadership
• Lead and develop a high-performing regional Finance-team across multiple countries and cultures.
• Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Act as a mentor and coach to Finance-leaders and key-talent within the region.

• Qualifications & Experience
• Master´s and/or Bachelor's-degree in Finance, Accounting and/or Business Administration - or a comparable qualification.
• Additional professional accounting qualification/s (e.g. Wirtschaftspruefer/in (WP), CPA, ACCA, CIMA - or equivalent) strongly preferred.
• Several years of progressive and relevant Finance-experience, including regional or multi-country responsibility.
• Proven experience in commercial finance, cost accounting, and financial-controllership.
• Strong understanding of IFRS, local statutory-reporting and international tax-compliance.
• Demonstrated ability to lead diverse teams across multiple geographies.
• Excellent communication-, influencing- and stakeholder management-skills
• Fluent in English; proficiency in other European languages (especially in German) would be a plus.
• Some business travel required.
• Key Competencies
• Strategic and analytical thinking
• Business partnership and commercial acumen
• Leadership and people-development
• Financial-discipline and -governance
• Cross-cultural communication
• Change-management and process-improvement