Website IVC Evidensia
This role is being offered on a 12-Month Fixed Term Contract basis.
Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities:
Month-End Close Oversight & Governance
* Lead daily monitoring of regional month-end close activities to ensure critical milestones and deliverables are completed accurately and on schedule.
* Review close progress against agreed timelines and proactively identify and resolve key risks, delays or quality concerns.
* Provide effective challenge and oversight to BPO teams and local finance teams throughout the close cycle.
* Escalate significant risks, unresolved issues and reporting concerns in a timely manner.
* Act as a key country/regional control point to ensure reporting quality remains consistently high throughout the close process.
Financial Statement Review & Quality Assurance
* Perform detailed review of critical journal entries, accruals, provisions, reserves, reclassifications and other material accounting transactions.
* Challenge accounting treatments and supporting documentation to ensure compliance with accounting policies and reporting standards.
* Review P&L and Balance Sheet analyses to ensure completeness, accuracy and consistency.
* Conduct daily analytical reviews of financial results during close, including: Margin analysis, EBITDA validation and reconciliation, Trend analysis and Balance Sheet movement reviews
* Identify unusual transactions, unexpected fluctuations or unsupported balances and drive corrective action.
Balance Sheet Reconciliation Leadership
* Own country/regional governance over the Balance Sheet reconciliation process.
* Monitor completion status of all reconciliations and ensure adherence to established deadlines.
* Perform in-depth reviews of high-risk and medium-risk Balance Sheet reconciliations.
* Evaluate reconciliation quality, supporting evidence, aging of reconciling items and appropriateness of proposed actions.
* Provide structured feedback and coaching to improve reconciliation quality and consistency.
* Ensure reconciling items are appropriately supported, investigated and resolved within agreed timelines.
Issue Resolution
* Drive resolution of aged, unreconciled, unsupported or high-risk Balance Sheet items.
* Coordinate across BPO, Local Finance, Treasury, Tax, FP&A and other stakeholders to resolve accounting issues.
* Ensure ownership and accountability are established for all material open items.
* Maintain focus on achieving a healthy and sustainable Balance Sheet position with minimal aged or unexplained balances.
* Promote strong financial controls and a culture of proactive issue identification and resolution.
Performance Monitoring & Continuous Improvement
* Develop and maintain scorecards and quality metrics to monitor close execution and Balance Sheet reconciliation performance.
* Identify recurring review findings and drive systematic corrective actions.
* Analyse trends in close quality, journal quality, reconciliation deficiencies and unresolved issues.
* Partner with GBS and BPO leadership to implement sustainable process improvements.
* Support standardisation, automation and simplification initiatives that strengthen financial controls and reporting quality.
base salary, you will benefit from
* Work-life balance
*26 days annual leave
* Cycle to Work scheme
* Initiatives focused on employee wellbeing
* Pension
* Discretionary Bonus
* Discounted staff pet care
* Dog Friendly office
* Free Parking available at Head Office
At IVC Evidensia we are a committed to Diversity, Equality, Inclusion and Belonging, we are keen to hear from candidates from all minority and diverse groups. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are keen to hear from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions and would be happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed during the recruitment process.