**LOCATIONS**:Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico**
- This a People Manager role
**Focus, Scope, & Impact**:
- Leads a team of Legal Entity Controllers (LECs) and analysts responsible for managing the end-to-end US GAAP and Local GAAP financial reporting process, statutory reporting, and tax compliance for the geography, which includes support to Operating Unit/s and legal entities/companies incorporated into the company's consolidated financial statements filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on a quarterly frequency for quarter and full year results. Local country statutory filings are done typically annually for financial statements and typically monthly and/or as required for tax.
- With focus on finance hub delivery, responsible to partner with Center Finance (primarily the Controller's Group, Corporate Treasury, and Corporate Tax), Region/Franchise, and Operating Unit (OU) leadership and teams to execute work driving business results and regulatory compliance.
- Supported by a Value Delivery team, provides guidance to and oversees the activities and output of a Managed Services Provider (MSP) team with associates performing Record-to-Report activities via an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system for a material portion of the company's operations impacting the external disclosure of the company's financial statements (i.e., Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, and Notes).
- Reviews and approves the work of the MSP in accordance with established policies and procedures including following a threshold. Also ensures the MSP's compliance with agreed protocols and where deviations occur, institutes remediation actions.
- Responsible for maintaining RTR data quality, ensuring compliance with standards and consistency of information output for financial reporting and business consumption in partnership with various teams and stakeholders. The quality of actual financial information recorded in the company's books of accounts not only for statutory filings but also for operational business needs is a critical enabler to the growth agenda.
- Supports a healthy internal control environment by executing activities in accordance with designed processes that address control risks as defined in the company's Risk and Control Matrix.
- Partners effectively with service providers in audit and tax to deliver and meet regulatory requirements.
- Partners with various stakeholders to support internal and external audits.
- Partners with various stakeholders in implementing new business models or new entities, and/or liquidating entities as relevant.
- In partnership with the Transformation team, the RTR Service Delivery Director is also responsible to provide support to and implement Platform Services global initiatives that standardize and automate work across the networked organization. The RTR Service Delivery team also proposes changes to policies, procedures, and systems where they can alleviate constraints, risks, and issues.
- Subject matter expert for issue resolution and escalation raised by stakeholders (including the MSP partner) including exception management.
- Partners with various Finance teams (i.e., Platform Services/Financial Hub, Controller's Group, Corporate Audit Department, Corporate Treasury, Corporate Tax) to ensure timeliness and accuracy of the company's accounting records, financial statements, and statutory (financial and tax) filings.
- Enables business continuity by establishing resource and other protocols in partnership with the Enterprise Strategic Security team to support specific risk scenarios.
- Key member of the leadership team of the Record-to-Report Service Delivery organization.
**Key** SUCCESS PARAMETERS**
**Experience**
- 10+ years of leadership experience in Corporate Finance including managing direct teams or a service provider with an extensive work scope, involving financial and management accounting areas requiring influencing, communicating effectively, and collaborating with senior leaders.
- CPA/MBA/ ACCA/Chartered Accountant would be desired.
- Extensive knowledge of US GAAP and IFRS
- General knowledge of tax environments
- Understanding of SAP and/or equivalent RTR financial tools and systems
- Relevant involvement in significant change projects and initiatives
- Virtual management across cultures and time zones
- Experience in a multinational company with a global footprint
- Operational excellence mindset
- Strong demonstration of business acumen, financial competency, language fluency, global thinking, effective communication, systems proficiency, change adaptability, flexibility, being able to operate in ambiguous situations, people management, business partnership and collaboration, and risk management.
**Work Focus**
- Managing the end-to-end financial reporting process for multiple countries requires solid knowledge of accounting rules as well as the company's financial policies and procedures applied to business transac