Deputy Finance Manager

emagine is on a growth journey and the Group Finance Department has adapted to support this. As a consequence, country Finance Manager positions are being rescoped, strengthened and created, Deputy Finance Manager, India being one of them. This new role has both accounting & compliance as well as Finance Business Partner aspects with room to develop the full scope of the role. Both in terms of optimizing the processes – and fleshing out the Business Partner interaction with the country management teams supporting the local decision-making with solid financial data.

Finance Manager work tasks:

• Finance compliance
• Ensure correct month and year-end closes in the standard group ERP. Liaise with the Group on improving a closing process.
• Ensure the local ERP configuration is compliant
• Manage the external audit process
• Produce and file the Annual Report
• Ensure compliance on local GAAP.
• Nordic-style accounting team management
• Review and optimize finance processes, including the way the accounting team is set up and operates.
• Ensure treasury is managed efficiently and securely
• Manage local Order to Cash and Purchase to Pay processes optimising NWC in the process

Tax and regulatory compliance

• Ensure local compliance with direct taxation
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  Ensure local compliance with indirect taxation
• Ensure regulatory filings compliance

Payroll compliance (outsourced)

• Coordinate payroll inputs with the HR department and the outsourced payroll provider
• Payroll administration, bonus, and commission calculations
• Monitor the quality of services delivered under the SLAs.

Business Partnering

• In coordination with the Offshore Finance Manager, act as a trusted partner to the Country Manager and other stakeholders regarding financial performance management.
• Understand and explain the development/business drivers and use this to drive local decision-making.
• Adapt processes to achieve the structured and scalable commercial and administrative functions required by a fast-growing organization.

Budgeting and Reporting

• Drive the local budgeting processes, primarily FTE and OPEX-focused (ie. excluding revenue and GM, which are provided by Group)
• Prepare budgets, including continuous updating and follow-up on key figures.
• Prepare any ad hoc reporting for Group or Local management

Professional requirements:

• Fluent in spoken and written English and local language (e.g. Kanada). Fluency in other major languages may be an advantage.
• Experience from a similar position and/or experience from an international audit/accounting firm working with and in medium-sized to large companies – ideally also with a group perspective.
• Hands-on experience required within areas of responsibility
• Hands-on experience with Business Central or Navision in India (or at least an ERP other than Tally)
• Experience working in or with European businesses as well as Indian businesses
• Inspires others; encourages the achievement of set goals by promoting a sense of purpose; provides inspiration for a positive work attitude; prompts a strong wish to succeed in the team.
• Makes sure employees/co-workers have a clear understanding of the direction of the tasks; takes action; organizes resources and directs others toward successful execution of the tasks; drives projects forward to reach pivotal objectives; makes things happen and follows through.
• Is proactive and able to inspire others and is able to take own initiatives without hesitation; actively seeks influence and starts up actions on own initiative.
• Able to communicate with people from other cultures; notices and relates to problems as seen from other cultures perspectives.
• Collaborates; works well with others with a view to obtaining the teams objectives; shares information; supports others.
• Works systematically; organizes work and effort; is methodical in ones performance; holds on to commenced tasks and projects.
• Possesses knowledge about economic and business conditions; focuses on costs, profit, new business opportunities and activities.
• Divides problems into relevant parts; differentiates between key areas and irrelevant and less important areas; has a logical mindset; makes sensible decisions on the basis of available information; is able to get an overview of a specific situation and at the same time work detailed with a problem; uses details to gain an overview of a situation.

Utilizing its proprietary IT platform, emagine offers its blue-chip clientele scalability and access to quality-assured high-end business consultants and IT professionals, both through its large network of local freelance consultants and its Nearshore and Offshore hubs in Poland, India and UAE as well as range of Managed Services. As one of the largest providers of on-site and nearshore time and material-based senior IT, business and management consultancy in Northern Europe, the core business of the Group is to help customers scale up with the exact expert resources needed at the exact time and at the exact location. As such, emagine is characterized by high-end consultants, competitive pricing, flexibility, quick delivery, security and stability as well as the highest standards of IT and management competencies.

emagine is headquartered in Copenhagen with offices across Sweden, Norway, Poland, Ireland, France, Portugal, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, India and UAE. The company is owned by the private equity firm, management and employees.