Accounting Transformation Manager

Choosing the right career path is crucial, and finding the perfect place to do so is equally vital. Are you an experienced professional ready to take the next significant step in your career?

We are looking for a passionate leader with background in Accounting, who takes initiative, is an analytical thinker and problem solver, and excellent communicator to enhance their knowledge and management skills in a dynamic, fast-paced clearance company.

Your Team

Our Accounting Department comprises approximately 100 team members, with you directly overseeing five (5) Managers located in Tunisia, Moldova and Romania. This role requires flexibility for one business trip per month between these locations to meet the team and oversee their activities. The team operates out of Iasi, Chisinau, and Sousse, making fluency in both French and English essential. We manage a portfolio of 960 companies, handling monthly balance sheets for businesses from France, Romania, Tunisia, Moldova, and other countries.

Your Impact
The Accounting Transformation Manager will lead and facilitate initiatives to optimize accounting processes, ensuring efficiency, accuracy, and alignment with the company's strategic goals. This role is critical for improving workflows, minimizing operational complexity, ensuring compliance, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Your Day-To-Day

1.Operational Responsibilities:

• Analyze current accounting processes to identify weaknesses and areas for improvement

• Propose and implement optimized solutions to simplify and enhance accounting workflows

• Plan and manage improvement projects, ensuring on-time and within-budget delivery

• Train staff on new processes to ensure successful adoption

• Collaborate cross-departmentally to ensure unified process implementation across the organization

• Develop and monitor KPIs to evaluate process effectiveness

• Measure the impact of changes (productivity, cost, and accuracy) and adjust strategies as needed

• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and innovation

• Ensure compliance with internal controls, financial regulations, and reporting standards

• Drive automation initiatives to reduce manual errors and increase efficiency

• Oversee data integration across financial systems, ensuring consistency and accuracy

• Monitor changes in financial regulations and adapt internal processes to maintain compliance

• Conduct periodic audits to identify risks, gaps, or process inefficiencies, and implement corrective actions

• Support and guide international and local teams to ensure global process consistency

• Report progress, challenges, and outcomes to senior management and stakeholders

2. Client Management:

• Mediate challenges or conflicts with internal/external clients

• Build and strengthen business partnerships with clients

3. Team Management:

• Support, mentor, and coach team members to maximize performance and potential

• Recruit and develop a high-performing team

• Organize and facilitate team activities, encouraging cooperation and proactive issue resolution

• Serve as a role model by promoting teamwork, accountability, and ongoing learning

• Address conflicts or ambiguous situations, ensuring win-win solutions

• Monitor team performance, provide feedback, and implement individual development plans

• Conduct performance evaluations and take managerial decisions to improve underperformance

4. Decision-Making:

• Make critical operational decisions promptly with limited information

• Implement innovative approaches to problem-solving and encourage creativity within the team

• Quickly and effectively address operational issues and obstacles

Your Experience and Expertise

1.Education & Technical Expertise:

• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Accounting, Finance, or a related field

• Language proficiency: French (B2-C1), English (B1-B2)

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook), PDF tools

• Experience with SAP, UCMS, and Javelo

• Solid expertise in accounting, taxation, and international financial legislation

2.Experience:

• At least 5 years in a team or project management role, with a focus on financial innovation

3.Key Competencies:

• Business acumen and strategic thinking

• Strong communication and leadership skills

• Coaching, mentoring, and team development abilities

• Conflict resolution and negotiation skills

• Creativity and problem-solving

• Excellent time management, planning, and prioritization skills

• Focus on continuous process improvement and results orientation

• Emotional intelligence, adaptability, and resilience

• Analytical thinking with attention to detail

• Diplomacy and the ability to manage organizational change

• Recruitment and talent development

• Team collaboration and client orientation