Role Summary/Purpose:
The role should manage Stat &Tax filings for Corporate East Africa countries entities (including Kenya). The role holder will oversee the Statutory processes standards and financial compliance for the region, prioritizing results and seeking to drive organizational transformation, process improvement and automatization, for a long term and structured growth.
Essential Responsibilities:
Responsible for developing and directing the improvement, alignment, simplification, implementation and standardization of Statutory processes in the region
Ensure the region is aligned with Global Teams to support organizational transformation in order to meet local and regional needs
Work on time reduction on acquisitions integrations
Review, validate and establish the procedures with the local statutory process leaders to ensure proper application of Local and US GAAP.
Continuously provide insight on process improvements, especially reconciliation and preparation of Statutory Financial Statements
Approve and coordinate process changes for the region enabling system and processes consistency.
Interact with other leaders to provide consultative support to initiatives through financial and management information analyses
Provide management of and leadership for direct staff
Drive statutory process leader’s commitment, productivity & six sigma quality initiatives.
Assure Statutory process controller ship
Supervise progress of audits recommendations and help coordinate corporate review sessions.
Ensure Integrity is upheld throughout all processes, policies and practices, by ensuring appropriate communication and training of related activities.
The Job scope is flexible and may be modified based on the Gas Franchise Stat and Tax organization requirements
Qualifications/Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 4 years of experience in Finance).
Minimum of 3 additional years of experience in Tax Operations.
7+ Years of experience
High degree of proficiency of Local GAAP and US GAAP knowledge
Demonstrated experience in project management
Strong controllership analytical skills – able to link financial results to operational performance drives Experience leading cross-functional projects / process improvement within operations / finance function GE ops system / routines
Ability to prepare and deliver effective presentations
Customer Orientation
Ability to build good partnership with all stakeholders in the processes
Team Leadership
Excellent collaboration and communication skills
Support a positive environment despite constant changes
Strategic, visionary and inclusive skills
Good ability to stay updated with market trends and external changes to incorporate knowledge in our internal processes
Good dealing with ambiguity and a non-structured environment
Must be willing to travel a minimum of 30% of the time
Desired Characteristics:
Strong oral and written communication skills.
Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
Ability to influence others and lead small teams.
Lead initiatives of moderate scope and impact.
Ability to coordinate several projects simultaneously.
Effective problem identification and solution skills.
Proven analytical and organizational ability.
