Req ID: 121012
Remote Position: Hybrid
Region: Americas
Country: Mexico
State/Province: Nuevo Leon
City: Monterrey
**General Overview**:
**Functional Area**: Finance (FIN)
**Career Stream**: Finance (FIN)
**Role**: Manager 1 (MG1)
**Job Title**: Associate, Finance Manager 1
**Job Code**: MG1-FIN
**Job Level**: Band 09
**Direct/Indirect Indicator**: Indirect
**Summary**:
Manages financial operations of a business unit or units, coordinating the financial team. This job is a first-level manager within a Site or Corporate office. Provides direct management to semi-skilled and entry-level professional employees performing diverse and/or specialized roles, or employees in more than one function or work group. This includes establishing annual plans/objectives and interpretation of policies related to the functional area. Contributes to policy development. Work is performed within established professional standards and practices. Receives assignments in the form of tasks and goals and follows established processes to meet the goals of the unit. Executes budgets, develops schedules, and enforces policies and procedures. Sound decisions are required to achieve the divisions/departments operations, schedules, and/or performance goals. Provides immediate supervision to employees in more than one function or work group, assigning tasks and checking work at regular intervals. Directs subordinates to achieve assignments using established guidelines, procedures, and policies. Makes employee staffing decisions. Reviews employees performance and recommends employee compensation; coaches for improved performance and disciplines as necessary. Interacts directly with subordinates and peer groups. Builds strong internal and external relationships that require exchanging of information and providing explanations in a problem solving capacity. Implements process improvements. Can negotiate and persuade. Conducts negotiations and manages a desired outcome. Chairs meetings with adequate presentation material. Mentors, motivates and influences others to work toward and achieve team objectives. Communicates a vision passionately. Responsible for planning and prioritizing for other people. Makes a decision based on analysis. Anticipates and initiates changes and make recommendations. Is Able to handle difficult situations in a tactful and diplomatic manner? Can effectively resolve conflict.
**Detailed Description**:
Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:
- Manages financial and accounting staff within the department.
- Staffs the department, assigns work, reviews performance and addresses performance issues.
- Provides leadership, coaching, and development.
- Promotes and maintains a productive work environment.
- Develops policies, procedures and business controls to provide work direction.
- Manages the audit, compliance and external reporting processes.
- Acts as a liaison to federal, state, insurance, banking and other external auditors.
- Develops and implements business controls and procedures to minimize or comply with audit recommendations.
- Provides information to consultants responsible for external financial reporting.
- Provides guidance to management on accounting policies and procedures.
- Ensures compliance with corporate policies and objectives.
- Manages payroll processing for a site or sites.
- Ensures accurate and timely paychecks.
- Works with the Human Resources department and other to continually develop and improve the process.
- Manages special projects and/or external relationships (e.g., travel agency, risk management, etc.).
**Knowledge/Skills/Competencies**:
- Ability to effectively communicate with a wide variety of internal and external customers.
- Ability to effectively lead, manage, train and motivate a diverse group of employees
- Excellent negotiation and problem resolution skills.
- Ability to recommend accounting process changes based on intimate knowledge of accounting processes, policies and procedures. Ability to direct others on accounting practices.
- Ability to recommends creative accounting solutions that are in accordance with GAAP of relevant country and U.S. GAAP.
- Ability to manage large scale budgeting/forecasting process.
- Ability to analyze and summarize key highlights and makes recommendations to management for plan/forecast savings.
- Perform financial sensitivity analysis against all key factors (pricing, operating and costing) and provide management with recommendations/solutions.
- Makes recommendations based on interpretation of results.
- Understands MRP configurations/processes.
- Creates basic spreadsheet macros.
- Ability to design custom queries in job-related software.
- Understanding of the relationships between the various tools.
- Understands how to use the political structure in the organization and how to get things done using that structure.
- Ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of internal and external customers and o
