Gbs - Accounting Platform Team Leader Emea

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Syensqo Job Grade: S17

**_Job Overview and Responsibilities_**

Syensqo is creating its internal Global Business Services (GBS) to cover Finance, Procurement and Human Resources activities. We offer you to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment and to contribute to this group’s transformation.

Join us in one of our 3 service centers: Lisbon, Curitiba, and Bangkok, be part of this transformation journey from the start.

Our accounting team is integrated in the GBS area Service Line.

As a Team Leader you will lead and develop a team of between 7 to 12 people responsible for the financial closure for the legal entities under your scope:

- Act as facilitator and an interface with other contributors and stakeholders of the financial Closing process and other General Ledger country and local operations
- Contribute to reach high level quality of service and identify opportunities and deploy initiatives to streamline closing process and ensure data quality
- Interact with other Accounting platform team leaders and contribute to overall standardization, efficiency ambition and ensure compliance

**Key Responsibilities of a Team Leader**
- Manage the team & staff
- Set priorities and/or plan work for a weekly or daily schedule
- Ensure that team output is in line with applicable delivery indicators, quality, deadlines, cost and work in line with group standards (e.g. Health and Safety)
- Organize and assess work of the team
- Act as an expert of the domain and coach people toward accountability in terms of deliverables
- Ensure team member development and career progression
- Inform, train, motivate, coach all team members to facilitate their growth
- Promote spirit of accountability, speak up to act as problem solver
- Ensure business continuity and backups are in place
- Ensure or perform training activities (ex: onboarding of new employees in the team)
- Deliver operational services
- Monitor KPIs and OPIs to ensure delivery of service in line with customer expectations
- Analyze structural issues and collaborate with Service Owner to fix them
- Ensure compliance with Group Internal Control, policies and audits, and perform the relevant checks
- Ensure work instructions/operating procedures are periodically updated
- Prepare and publish all reporting on time and with the required quality
- Find and implement quick fix solutions for problems or escalate issues
- Ensure appropriate follow-up by the team of all pending issues, identifying trends, recurrent issues and taking appropriate actions/contacts internally or externally to address root causes
- Ensure continuous improvement & innovation
- Proactively monitor Process KPIs and OPIs, analyze gaps to target performance and propose and lead performance improvement initiatives
- Promote innovation in the team, and import new ideas and solutions from internal & external contacts
- Collaboration across the organization and with Service Owner to maintain standardization cross fertilization, and improve automation
- Acquire and update knowledge about rules, and adapt process to business needs
- Maintain knowledge about process & tools, and about the Group policies and procedures
- Collect all input from Service Line Management to develop knowledge of the team
- Learn and share best practices in the team
- Stay updated about customer requirements/specificities and future needs of company and customer
- Create trusting partnership with stakeholders (internal or external)
- Be known and recognized by BSA stakeholders (e.g. Company Accounting Managers, Country Accounting Directors, SU Management Accounting team leaders, etc.)
- Take ownership and resolve escalation requests from stakeholders
- Create, maintain and be active in networking
- Initiate and maintain improved collaboration, across GBS/BSA organization, to accelerate improvement

**_Education and Experience_**
- Degree in Finance Accounting, with strong knowledge on IFRS
- Minimum of 8 years’ experience in finance domain

**_Skills and behavioral competencies_**
- Proven people management experience
- Effective organizational skills and ability to navigate through different levels of the organization
- High level of communication skills, in a global context
- SAP experience in the domain
- Proactive with a high level of initiative
- Strong collaboration skills

**_Language skills_**

Excellent communication skills in English

Ability to speak additional languages is a plus

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