Caspian Finance Lead
vakansiya — 2024

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What you’ll do:

Position is responsible for local accounting, financial reporting, tax, legal, treasury, and financial systems. Also responsible for ensuring the Caspian Region is compliant with local regulations and BCG global polices, risk management oversight and process reengineering and policy development.

Specific responsibilities include:

Taxation

• To ensure compliance regarding all taxation matters such as local corporate taxes, withholding taxes and VAT requirements
• Preparation of:
  • annual tax returns in accordance with local statutory requirements
  • tax forecasts for planning purpose
  • corporate tax provisions
• Team with Head of Finance & Acct Ops to manage tax audits and respond to tax authorities requests with input from Global Tax Team and external advisors
• Continuously work on identification of tax opportunities and avoidance of tax risks in personal tax, corporate tax and VAT
• Work with Global Tax Team and external advisors to develop and maintain transfer pricing documentation in accordance with relevant local legislation

Treasury

• Prepare cash forecasting (short term and longer term)
• Manage payments process

Financial Accounting & Reporting

• Ensure compliance with statutory and US GAAP accounting requirements
• Managing general ledger and accounts payable
• Ensuring that local practices comply with BCG policies and local requirements
• Responsible for preparation of local and UK statutory and US GAAP financial statements
• Running the AP process, supporting with a stronger vendor management, support the transformation to a procurement system
• Proactively identify and address areas for improvement to the local accounting processes to gain efficiencies, which is inclusive of, but not limited to assisting with local development and implementation of financial applications
• Managing the local audit and external auditor relationship

Payroll

• Provide direction to Payroll Supervisor in managing
  • payroll
  • mobility/secondee tax and mobility compliance

Risk Management

• Work closely with Heads of Finance & Accounting to ensure risk exposure is proactively managed within the function
• Ensure appropriate local policies are in place and monitored and the adherence to global policies
• Work closely with HR to manage Mobility: provide guidance of financial and tax impact for hiring or transferring foreigners and ensure compliance with immigration laws
• Develop and implement appropriate documentation and internal controls to support and monitor compliance with local tax and other regulatory requirements
• Ensure timely response and implementation of recommendations from Risk Mgmt. Team

You’re good at:

• Strong attention to detail and accuracy – particularly when under pressure
• Good business judgment, able to see potential second order effects
• Able to respond to sudden shifts in priorities and direction and deal with ambiguity
• Able to excel in a large international company culture while functioning in a small local team
• Being organized – has clear systems and composure to deal with multiple tasks at once and ensure everything gets done in a timely manner

You bring (Experience & Qualifications):

1. Background and Qualifications

• Significant experience within the Finance Function of a Multinational firm in the Caspian Region, including complex tax and compliance activities
• Deep familiarity with statutory and tax reporting, financial and tax practices in the Caspian Region
• Deep familiarity with US Financial reporting and GAAP requirements
• University degree plus Accounting Qualifications or equivalent with 10 years of experience

2. Skills and Attributes

• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent people manager able to motivate and develop members of the Finance team and build strong working relationships with the BST Leadership team
• Able to bring creative solutions to issues, often without direct guidance from senior management
• Fluency in written and spoken Azerbaijani, Russian and English

You’ll work with:

Members of our finance team are responsible for preserving the intellectual capital, assets, and integrity of BCG. We make a decisive impact on the firm’s direction, performance, and risk-management models. Finance jobs include accounting and reporting, planning and analysis, tax and treasury, financial systems, payroll, and executive compensation.