Director, Corporate Accounting

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

Please submit your CV in English.

Employee Contract Type:

Open-ended contract (Full time)

HAY Grade: 19

JOB PURPOSE

The Director, Corporate Accounting leads those functions which are responsible for the efficient and accurate processing of transactions, executing a strong internal control framework and ensuring external reporting obligations are met to stakeholders. The purpose of this role is to:

• Lead the Global Centre (GC) Corporate Accounting team in all accounting, financial reporting and compliance-related matters for GC offices;
• Ensure appropriate policies and procedures exist for the financial management of all Global Centre (GC) offices, Regional Offices (RO), Field Offices (FO) and Support Offices (SO) where appropriate, through the monitoring of internal audit findings, the establishment of processes to identify internal control risk and resulting in the continuous improvement of the global finance policies and procedures and appropriate reporting to management.
• Lead the operational management of the global year-end audit process and oversee the production of the consolidated financial statements in compliance with US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).Ensure global financial accounting processes are efficient, timely and accurate, reconciling items are cleared regularly, and that customers’ queries are resolved promptly and to their satisfaction.
• Have a continuous improvement and customer-focused mindset, looking for opportunities to drive improved levels of service, speed, automation and reduce duplication to improve the customer experience.

MAJOR RESPONSABILITES

25% - Lead the Corporate Accounting services and compliance for the Global Centre

• Lead a team of financial accountants to accurately process accounting transactions, prepare and close the general ledger each month on a timely basis for the Global Centre offices (including Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Costa Rica, Ghana, Geneva, Dubai, London, New York, Brussels) and Regional Offices.
• Balance sheet and funding account reconciliations are performed each month by agreed deadlines, with reconciling items cleared on a monthly basis.
• Staff are managed to clear KPIs to ensure accuracy, timeliness and completeness of the general ledger.
• Drive continuous improvement in all global financial accounting processes to improve speed, automation, accuracy, timeliness, completeness and customer experience, working closely with FPRA Directors to ensure processes are fit for purpose for the Global Centre, Support Offices and Field Office as appropriate.
• Work closely with the Director, FPRA – Global Centre, to ensure all chargebacks issued are processed on a timely basis, can be easily traced and reconciled.
• Work closely with the Senior Finance Director, Global Engagement to monitor Field Offices financial reporting, particularly balance sheets, to identify risks to year-end close.
• Monitor GC liquidity by participating in the monthly global liquidity meetings and managing the process to approve cash transfers to Field Offices towards the end of the fiscal year.

25% - Lead the financial year end close, financial reporting and annual external audit processes

Year End close

• Lead the year-end close process for the WVI Partnership through effective project management, ensuring activities all offices are coordinated to ensure a timely year-end close, supported by clear guidance, training and communication.Work closely with Global Field Finance, Financial Planning, Reporting & Analysis and Financial Data & Capability to coordinate year-end close activities across various stakeholder groups.

Financial Statements

• Lead the Corporate Accounting team in delivering the US GAAP compliant annual financial statements for World Vision International by consolidating the individual financial reports of Vision Fund International (VFI), microfinance organisations (MFOs), Field Offices (FOs), Regional Offices (ROs) Global Centre offices (GC) and some Support Offices (SOs), adjusting non-US GAAP records to be compliant, appropriately identifying and calculating eliminating entries upon consolidation and overseeing the preparation of appropriate disclosure notes.
• Maintain technical knowledge of changes to accounting standards under US GAAP.
• Prepare technical positi