Italy Finance Manager

**Company Description**

MSX International Group is the leading global provider of outsourced business solutions for the automotive industry making business in more than 80 countries. MSXI’s deep industry expertise combined with advanced data analytics and custom software solutions improve the performance of automotive dealership networks by increasing revenue, reducing cost, and enhancing customer satisfaction.

The **Finance Manager** oversees the day-to-day activities of the finance team, ensures the company’s finance function is organized and efficient and produces accurate financial and management accounts and support the VS Finance Director to achieve the Company tasks. The Finance Manager has dotted reporting line to the Group Financial Controller.

The Finance Manager oversees monthly, quarterly, and annual results through a consistent reporting pack, business partnering Operations in order to achieve Company results.

They’ll play a fully operational role, very hands on, focusing on the following responsibilities:
**Accountability for managing the finance department and compliance matters**

- Compliance with corporation tax, payroll taxes, preparation of VAT returns
- Ensure timely preparation and submission of statutory for the Markets
- Support the Finance Team on timely Budget pack preparation and submission and ensure local finance budgeting and forecasting processes in line with the company financial scheduling
- Cost analysis as base for decisions and investments
- Analysis of project results

**Responsibility in compiling business results, cash flow reports and support business forecasts**

- Support the team in reviewing monthly revenue, unbilled debtor calculation, deferred income
- Support the forecast submission & deviation analysis
- Lead the month end activities
- Prepare cash flow forecast and follow up
- Management of a complete set of reconciled balance sheet accounts
- Timely submission of key deliverables to management
- Lead the price controlling and support the Finance Director for the review and approval of all commercial proposal before submission to Customers based on the Delegation of Authority
- Lead the approval of all purchases based on the Delegation of Authority

**Management daily finance tasks and ensure completion of duties regarding general and analytics accounting, supplier ledger, sales ledger, cashbooks, payroll and taxes**

- Ensure precise and timely bank reconciliation
- Ensure precise and timely balance sheet reconciliation
- Support the Finance team to perform precise and timely general ledger reconciliation
- Bank account management and on-line banking
- Supervise monthly payroll review and reconciliation
- Supervise invoice handling and payments
- Reconciliation of inter-company accounts and tracking of pan-European billing

**Accountability in managing the finance tasks and compliance matters**

- Manage and ensure the achievement of the annual audits

**Supervision/Working with the Finance/Admin team to ensure to**:

- Create accurate sales ledger, including liaison with Operations to obtain information and attention to the pan-European sales invoices
- Ensure accurate supplier ledger and input of the monthly pan-European supplier invoices
- Manage accruals and prepayments

**Supervise the office facility tasks**

**Supervise and manage the car fleet**

**Supervise/Work with the Finance/Admin team to ensure**:

- Efficient supplier contracts signature, maintenance, renewal and negotiation.

The role will include responsibilities at procurement level including:

- Ensure that procurement process and routines are in place as per Company policies. Give constant contribution on policies improvement
- Approve Purchases before the purchase process takes place
- Negotiating with suppliers, ensuring a sustainable procurement relationship
- Take initiative to lead efficiently changes (various projects)
- Discover profitable suppliers and initiate business and organization partnerships
- Management of annual quality and compliance audit
- Finalize purchase details of orders and deliveries
- Examine and test existing contracts in order to identify risk elements or opportunities of improvement
- Create or maintain Company General Terms and Conditions and ensure that all Suppliers stick to that

**Additional temporary tasks according to Company needs.**

**Working pattern**:

- Full-time role
- Rome - hybrid

**Qualifications**
**Must**: Bachelor’s degree in accounting or equivalent job experience.

**Desirable**: Fully qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA for international accounting rules e.g. US GAAP or equivalent local certifications.

**Desirable**:Master’s degree in accounting and/or business administration.

**Experience**

**Must**: Approximately 5 years relevant financial experience (likely at medium sized company).

**Must**: Approximately 2 years of team management.

**Must**:Local tax and accounting experience.

**Must**:Experience from financial analysis tools.

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