Head of Finance- Philippines

SYSTRA is one of the world's leading engineering and consultancy groups specialising in public transport and sustainable mobility. With over 10,300 employees, SYSTRA's mission is to design safe and sustainable transport solutions to bring people together, develop social inclusion and facilitate access to employment, education and leisure throughout the world.

For 65 years, the Group has been working alongside cities and regions to contribute to their development by creating, improving and modernising their infrastructure and transport systems, throughout the life cycle of their projects. SYSTRA is involved from the earliest stages of design through to the testing, deployment and maintenance phases. The company provides all its services in over 80 countries worldwide and generates 74% of its turnover internationally. With its new services, SYSTRA supports its clients and partners in their digital, ecological and energy transition, in order to invent the mobility of tomorrow.

Context

SYSTRA Philippines Incorporated (SPI) is actively looking for a Head Of Finance who will report to the Vice-Chairman of SPI and functionally to Asia CFO.

Based in Manila, he / she will be responsible for the finance (accounting, treasury, tax activities), payroll and admin activities for SPI. He / she generally monitors the security, compliance, accuracy of financial and payroll reporting to the region and headquarters.

Missions/Main Duties

Finance & Accounting

• Manage the local finance team
• Establish the statutory accounts
• Manage the relationship with external and internal auditors
• Manage the monthly closing process
• Follow-up of the client billing and cashing of the country projects
• Manage all supplier payments
• Management of the budget cycle: development of the annual budget, forecasting and budget exercises, gap analysis
• Management of the monthly closing process: reporting production, analysis of the results of Business, indicator monitoring, analysis and understanding of gap.
• Monitoring and controlling of dashboards and financial indicators in the Area (WC, DSO, ... )
  
  

Follow-up Of Projects

• Financial component validation for major tenders issued
• Set up new the financials KPI of new contracts
• Monitoring of the monthly contract’s reviews
• Validation of initial budgets of contracts managed
• Monthly review of contracts in collaboration with the operational team
• Challenge the financial KPIs of projects
  
  

Treasury

• Manage all bank POAs as per company rules and local regulation
• Handle all the banking matters (opening or closing bank account…)
• Management of the Treasury forecast through our tool “Cash Solve”
• Management of the Treasury reporting’s
  
  

Tax

• Manage tax assessments and payments in accordance with the Bureau of Internal Revenue requirements
• Manage tax records in conjunction with the Region and Group Tax Department
• Participation in the resolution of international tax issues, in conjunction with the Region and Group Tax Department
  
  

Process, Standards, And Internal Control

• Identify and implement improvement projects of financial process
• Ensure the correct application of procedures, standards, and Group management rules
• Ensure the existence of a good level of local internal control and participate in its improvement
• Monitor and review of internal control locally, monitor action plans decided by the Risk Management and Audit department
  
  

Others

• Identify the best practices that could be generalized at Group level
• Participate to ad hoc financial studies for the Finance Department
• Ensure the dissemination of financial literacy and Group management rules
  
  

Profile/Skills

Education

• Degree in Accounting and /or Financial Management (preferably a Certified Public Accountant)
  
  

Background

• 15 years of experience in accounting and financial management within operations / project management environment
• Experience in a multicultural environment
  
  

Technical Skills

• Strong financial skills
• Financial planning and reporting
• Solid background of operations management
  
  

Personal Skills

• Ability to react quickly to issues and problems that may arise
• Good organization skills, rigor, intellectual curiosity
• Very good communication skills, clarity of explanations
• Strong interpersonal skills
  
  

Systra is an equal opportunities company; this position is open to all applicants.