[Hiring] Finance Team Lead @AVEVA

Role Description

The Finance Team Lead – Colombia is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day finance and accounting activities for AVEVA’s Colombian entity, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial records, timely completion of month-end and year-end activities, and compliance with local statutory, tax, corporate and internal control requirements.

The role will lead the local Finance team and work closely with the LATAM Finance Director, regional Finance teams, Tax, Treasury, FP&A, Commercial Finance and other global functions. This is a hands-on leadership role. The successful candidate must be comfortable going into the detail, investigating accounting, tax or control issues, and working directly with the team to resolve them. The role requires someone who can combine strong technical accounting and Colombian tax knowledge with effective people management and stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• Strong accounting and financial reporting background with solid understanding of general ledger, balance sheet management and month-end/year-end close processes.
• Strong knowledge of Colombian accounting, statutory and tax requirements.
• Demonstrated experience dealing with Colombian tax matters and working with tax authorities and/or external tax advisors.
• Previous experience coordinating statutory audits, tax compliance and external audit requirements.
• Experience managing or supervising a Finance or Accounting team.
• Strong hands-on approach, with the ability and willingness to investigate issues, understand the underlying transactions and work through the detail to reach a resolution.
• Ability to combine people management responsibilities with direct involvement in accounting, tax, audit and control matters when required.
• Strong understanding of internal controls, financial controls and operational risk.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership, make sound judgements and appropriately escalate issues.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with local, regional and global stakeholders.
• Ability to operate comfortably at both a detailed technical level and a managerial level.
• High level of integrity and a strong commitment to compliance and ethical standards.
• Ability to work effectively in a multinational and matrix organisation.
• Fluent or strong professional English, with the ability to participate confidently in meetings and communicate effectively with regional and global stakeholders.

Requirements

• Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or a related field.
• Professional accounting qualification in Colombia is preferred.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience with Oracle or similar ERP/accounting systems.
• Good understanding of accounting standards and Colombian statutory reporting requirements.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work closely with colleagues across LATAM and globally.
• Direct ownership of the financial operations and compliance of the Colombian entity.
• Combining hands-on accounting and tax expertise, team leadership and business partnership within an international environment.

Key Stakeholders

• LATAM Finance Director
• LATAM Finance Team
• Regional and Global Finance teams
• Tax
• Treasury
• FP&A
• Commercial Finance / Sales
• Internal and External Audit
• Legal and Compliance
• External tax and accounting advisors