Chief Accountant

Job Description

POSITION SNAPSHOT

Location: Tehran - Islamic Republic of Iran;
Company: Nestlé Iran - Tehran Office; Full-Time;

POSITION SUMMARY

To co-pilot the country controller by providing Finance insights to support business decision-making as well as sound accounting and reporting, best in class tax compliance, and smooth treasury process for the country, while ensuring the highest standards for stewardship and governance throughout the company.

A DAY IN THE LIFE …

• Ensure accurate, transparent, consistent, and timely financial accounting records and reporting submissions, in full compliance with NAS and other corporate and legal standards.
• Ensure that effective internal controls are established, maintained, and monitored throughout the company, and understood by all stakeholders.
• Leading and supervising all the accounting functions (accounts receivable, accounts payable, accounting operations, overall profit and loss statement, balance sheet review).
• Supervise IG Treasury activities for fund allocation from the Ministry of Health and Central Bank of Iran to ensure the payments for foreign suppliers.
• Compliance with all company and local legal, tax, and audit requirements while optimizing structural set-up /risk profile.
• Provide tax advice to Senior Managers on all taxation matters including areas such as research and development tax breaks etc., ensuring the company’s executive team is aware of tax exposure.
• Lead the tax team to limit tax exposure through solid completion of tax assessment, leveraging local tax advisors and challenging authorities.
• Effective relationship management with external auditors, tax authorities, and banks.
• Solving technical accounting issues.
• Dynamic planning and risk management - leading the financial goal setting; pragmatic risk-taking and mitigation; ensuring realistic rolling forecasts and gap analyses, identify areas to improve business efficiency.
• Develop finance and non-finance capabilities within the country.
• Manage daily cash collection activities in coordination with NTC.
• Process improvement together with IS IT/business improvement; keeping all work processes and systems up-to-date in the market, driving simplicity and efficiency in all we do to support value creation.
• Establish system controls for the new financial system and develop procedures to improve the existing system.
• Support the country controller in the understanding and application of financial concepts and techniques, leading the company's development of business measurements, and driving outstanding performance over time.
• Direct a large team of accounting experts for an intense training program and expanded the team's efficiency through rigorous training of accounting staff.
• Team management including mentoring and staff career development, succession plans, development, and coaching of the team.

What Will Make You Successful?

• CPA/a university degree in Business Administration, Finance, or Accounting.
• Prior management experience (e.g.: financial controlling, functional controlling, and audit).
• Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry experience.
• International experience and mobility are an advantage.
• Proficiency in English and the language of the market (where appl.).