Finance Team Leader- General Ledger & Reporting

Role Purpose

GL & Reporting Team Leader leads the Team in GSC supporting multiple business units and locations, actively supports development of the GSC, is responsible for meeting Service Level Agreements and Customer expectations, improves operational effectiveness and efficiency of the team’s performance, resolves problems and develops the team.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Leading Team’s performance on daily operational and tactical basis

• Ensuring compliance with agreed processes and applicable policies and procedures
• Managing escalation process
• Reporting and managing metrics to assess performance of the team and provided services according to service level agreements
• Supporting GSC Management in understanding Customers’ needs and supporting implementation of new solutions
• Supporting Transitions, Continuous Improvement and other firm streams in identifying business requirements for new solutions and services
• Providing required analysis of process performance as well as support identification of additional analysis perspectives to support Manager’s decisions
• Identifying and implementing improvements in process and work organization including active participation in technology implementations
• People management, including recruitment, onboarding of new staff to the Team, facilitating technical/functional training or leveraging other training resources, measuring individual and team performance, providing feedback, counselling and coaching as needed, confronting employee issues, managing corrective action process, supporting Manager on annual salary planning process for the Team
• Managing the implementation of new technologies

About you

• Very good English skills required

• Very good people management skills and ability to work in international diversified professional environment
• 2+ years' experience in General Ledger / Record to Report process areas.
• Master’s degree preferable in accounting or related courses
• Thorough understanding of finance processes and respective control framework
• Ability to interact appropriately and effectively with customers (customer focus, stakeholder and expectations management skills)
• Problem solving, priority setting, planning, delegation, directing others, managing and evaluating work capabilities

About us

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers and business service professionals located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Our global reach ensures that we can help businesses with their legal needs anywhere in the world. We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality, service excellence and value to our clients and offering practical and innovative legal solutions to help them succeed. Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies, as well as government and public sector bodies.

Our values

In everything we do connected with our People, our Clients and our Communities, we live by these values:

• Be Supportive – we are compassionate and inclusive, valuing diversity and acting thoughtfully

• Be Collaborative - we are proactive, passionate team players investing in our relationships

• Be Bold - we are fearless and inquisitive, challenging ourselves to think big and find creative new solutions

• Be Exceptional - we are strategic and driven, exceeding standards and expectations

Diversity and inclusion

At DLA Piper, diversity and inclusion underpins how we live our values and everything we do. We believe that everyone has a voice, and that everyone’s voice counts. We know that the rich diversity across our firm makes us stronger, more innovative and creative, which helps us to better serve our clients and communities. We are committed to providing an inclusive working environment and culture across our global firm, where everyone can bring their authentic self to work.

Diversity of perspective, thought, background and culture combine to make us the leading global law firm; that’s why we actively seek to build balanced teams. We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.

Hybrid working

We recognise that people have responsibilities and interests outside of their career and that as a business, we all benefit from working flexibly. That's why we are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support requests for agile working arrangements.

Pre-engagement screening

In the event that we make an offer to you, and where local legislation permits and where relevant, we will conduct pre-engagement screening checks that may include but are not limited to your professional and academic qualifications, your eligibility to work in the relevant jurisdiction, any criminal records, your financial stability and work-related references.

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