Finance Manager (Spanish or Portuguese Speaker)

AXA UK; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company in Glasgow is seeking a Finance Manager for the LatAm team. This role demands fluency in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, and involves managing a team, ensuring reconciliation processes, and communicating with external stakeholders. The ideal candidate should possess strong analytical and communication skills, alongside relevant finance experience. This position offers a competitive salary and benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Pension scheme

25 days annual leave plus ability to purchase 5 additional days

Private Medical cover

Employee Share Purchase Plan

Life Assurance

Subsidised gym membership

Employee Assistance program

Qualifications

• Qualified experience in finance management.
• Strong understanding of accounting fundamentals.
• Financial services or insurance experience is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of Onshore & Offshore members.
• Ensure completion of the reconciliation process.
• Communicate with local offices in Spanish.

Skills

Fluent in Spanish

Fluent in Portuguese

Strong communication skills

Analytical skills

Understanding of Excel

Education

Qualified by relevant experience

Accountancy Qualification

Job description

Job Description

• Finance Manager

Global Financial Operations, Glasgow

We are seeking a Finance Manager for our LatAm team in the Glasgow office. This role requires fluency in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. As part of the Shared Service Centre for Reconciliations, you will manage a team of Onshore & Offshore members and report to the Head of Finance Shared Service Delivery. You will be responsible for ensuring the completion of the reconciliation process on the Blackline system in line with the Global Policy.A key part of this role is working with a variety of LatAm regions’ local finance areas to complete finance reconciliation processes.You will be a key point of contact for both the local finance areas within LatAm and the Offshore team.

The successful candidate will be required to be a self-starter, with strong communication and analytical skills.Ideally you will have a sound understanding of excel and have relevant finance experience.You will be expected to be assertive in following up and seeking resolution of queries and issues.Strong communication skills are a must.

Key responsibilities include:

Balance Sheet Control

• Understand Global Accounting Policy and ensure it is being adhered to.Assist COG local contacts in their understanding of the Policy.
• Manage the Quality Assurance process ensuring the reconciliations are in line with Global Policy requirements.
• Understand the purpose and content of the reconciliations and data flows and be able to articulate to senior managers.
• Understand regional protocols and ensure they are being adhered to.
• Work with the local finance management team and FCU to resolve queries and clear aged open items.
• Understand data issues on the reconciliations and ensure these are logged on the Data Issue Register.
• Assist and escalate to all local contacts/stakeholders as and when required.

BPO Oversight Control

• Ensure tasks are carried out by the offshore team within agreed SLA’s.
• Active involvement in determining the SLA’s and ensuring methods for measuring are in line with the core purpose of the SLA.
• Support the Offshore team to enhance both reconciliation and underlying processes.
• Oversight and control of transitioned processes with the potential for visits to other sites to ensure cohesive working relationship.
• Regular quality assurance checks performed on outsourced processes.
• Review of BPO team standard operating procedures.

Communication with external groups

• Communicate in Spanish with local offices on any discussions both during project process and BAU.
• Work with third party outsource to ensure delivery of accounting processes.
• Take account cultural differences which effect processes and overall approach.

Continuous Improvement

• Lead continuous improvement in the LatAm entities within finance and promote this in the wider business.
• Work with the local & offshore teams to ensure they are operating efficiently and identify any opportunities to create capacity.

Projects

• Be involved in projects that flow through the team; completing test scripts, perform UAT, provide sign off.

Management

• Responsible for people management including resourcing, training and development, performance management, employee engagement and absence management.
• Ensure team tasks are adequately prioritised and aligned with the wider Glasgow team goals.

Communication

• Confident communication with external stakeholders within IT, Finance and Executive Management.
• Be able to adapt communication style to liaise with people at all levels within the organisation.
• Excellent written and oral English / Spanish/ Portuguese communication.

This is not an exhaustive list of tasks and responsibilities may change depending on business needs.

Qualifications

• Qualified by relevant experience.
• Accountancy Qualification is desirable
• Fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and English
• Successful applicant should have a strong understanding of accounting fundamentals and principals
• Financial services or insurance experience is desirable

We offer in return!

Competitive salary & pension scheme, 25 days annual leave plus ability to purchase 5 additional days, Private Medical cover, Employee Share Purchase Plan, Life Assurance, Subsidised gym membership, Employee resource groups, 1 day annual Charitable leave, Employee Assistance program.

Integrity. Client focus. Respect. Excellence. Teamwork

Our core values dictate how we live and work. We’re an ethical and honest company that’s wholly committed to its clients. A business that’s engaged in mutual trust and respect for its employees and partners. A place where colleagues perform at the highest levels. And a working environment that’s collaborative and supportive.

Diversity & Inclusion. At Chubb, we consider our people our chief competitive advantage and as such we treat colleagues, candidates, clients, and business partners with equality, fairness and respect, regardless of their age, disability, race, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, marital status or family circumstances.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.