Financial Reporting Director

The Director of External Financial Reporting is a key role within the Corporate Controllership team. The role will involve overseeing the global statutory accounts process and ensuring that financial reports are complete and accurate, and issued within a timely manner to key leaders in the business including the Executive Committee and external stakeholders. The Director will also be responsible for leading the audit engagement with our external auditors and providing initiatives and process improvement ideas to continue to support the development needs of the finance function as it relates to audits.

Role and responsibilities

• Coordinate and deliver the process to ensure all local legal and regulatory deadlines are met.


• Review and comment on all statutory financial statements to ensure compliance with relevant GAAP and local legislation.


• Support timely resolution of investor and board of director requests in relation to the statutory financial statements.


• Continuous improvement of statutory financial statement process


• Proactively monitor and support local teams to ensure compliance with regulatory deadlines.


• Work in partnership with IT and Corporate Finance Systems to help support with the annual corporate system development plan for the reporting pack process including facilitation with relevant parties to request system changes resulting in testing, training, communications, and support


• Ensure adequate support and guidance is provided to all entities for the annual P13 processes, including relevant training sessions


• Ownership and management of the external combined financial statement audit engagement Ensure regular sessions take place between the controllership team and our external audit partners


• Partner with our external auditors to develop a continuous improvement mindset, driving cost efficiencies for future audit related work


• Support with educating the global finance function (inc. FSSC function) with key annual requirements and the importance of external audit


• Central point of contact for internal audit regarding queries related to the consolidation and reporting tools and process


• Provide insight and knowledge and educate the finance teams to ensure deadlines are met with high standard of performance to drive "right first time" ways of working


• Driving process initiatives within the team to ensure that areas for improvement are captured and deployed. This will help with driving efficiencies, either via process or cost


• Support creation and delivery of education and training material for key and/or end users.
  
  Professional Qualification (CIMA, ACCA, CPA, CMIIA, CIA) / or equivalent


• Proven years of experience in external financial Audit


• Experience with significant exposure to statutory accounts and consolidation


• Experience of leading a Team


• Deep knowledge of statutory accounts processes


• Sound knowledge of U.S. GAAP


• Process improvement experience


• Working in an agile change environment


• Proven ability to deliver to deadlines
  
  Mundipharma is a global healthcare company with a presence across Africa, Asia Pacific, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Mundipharma is dedicated to bringing innovative treatments to patients in the areas of Pain Management, Infectious Disease and Consumer Healthcare as well as other severe debilitating disease areas. Our guiding principles, centered around Integrity and Patients-Centricity, are at the heart of everything we do.