Manager - BPO

at  Grant Thornton

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A Career at GT
Looking for a more fulfilling role in professional services? One where fresh thinking, collaboration and diversity are valued? At Grant Thornton we do things differently.
What does this mean for you?
A career in a more inclusive working environment, a more collaborative work culture, a more supported, flexible working role, more possibilities to grow and more opportunities to help shape the future for your clients. We respect and value your experience. And we want you to bring your authentic self to work and be at your best. It is how it should be.
Grow with us
At Grant Thornton, we care about our people and work hard to make you feel valued. If you are looking to deepen and develop your skills, knowledge, and experience throughout your career, then that is what you will get, and more.
The Opportunity
This is a high profile position. It involves working closely with Partners and other senior personnel within Grant Thornton, but also with key finance people in both publicly listed companies and multinational environments.
The FAAS team are a group of proactive accounting specialists who are focused on providing practical solutions to our clients’ complex financial reporting issues. We pride ourselves on our ability to respond quickly to fast moving business processes and timelines – whether assisting with advice related to transactions or working to tight financial close deadlines.

Main responsibilities:

• Project managing outsourced accounting and finance assignments for multi nationals including centralised statutory accounting projects, centralised statutory audit projects and global taxation compliance project;
• Ability to be able to work across a portfolio of clients
• Ability to identify process improvement in client working patterns and provide suggested remediations
• identifying new business opportunities and working with internal contacts to convert leads and opportunities into projects;
• building and maintaining strong relationships with senior finance personnel;
• managing and coaching junior team members; and
• promoting FAAS both internally and externally, articulating all FAAS services and the value that we bring to our clients.

Skills and attributes:

• experience of relationship management, negotiating with and influencing senior individuals, both internally and externally;
• experience in Multi National / Shared Services desirable;
• experience of managing audit relationships with knowledge of multi-jurisdictional audit assignments;
• committed to relationship development and able to identify opportunities to deliver the best value;
• a genuine interest in financial reporting issues;
• good communicator, highly articulate with excellent report writing skills;
• a passion for client service;
• ability to learn quickly and keep abreast of the latest developments in financial reporting;
• strong project management skills;
• recognised accounting qualification;
• minimum of 3 years of practical experience in dealing with accounting issues in a plc or equivalent organisation, either in Practice or Industry;

• Project managing outsourced accounting and finance assignments for multi nationals including centralised statutory accounting projects, centralised statutory audit projects and global taxation compliance project;
• Ability to be able to work across a portfolio of clients
• Ability to identify process improvement in client working patterns and provide suggested remediations
• identifying new business opportunities and working with internal contacts to convert leads and opportunities into projects;
• building and maintaining strong relationships with senior finance personnel;
• managing and coaching junior team members; and
• promoting FAAS both internally and externally, articulating all FAAS services and the value that we bring to our clients