Italy Finance Manager

Company Description

MSX International Group is the leading global provider of outsourced business solutions for the automotive industry, operating in more than 80 countries. MSXI’s deep industry expertise combined with advanced data analytics and custom software solutions improves the performance of automotive dealership networks by increasing revenue, reducing cost, and enhancing customer satisfaction.

Job Description

The Finance Manager oversees the day‑to‑day activities of the finance team, ensures the company’s finance function is organized and efficient, produces accurate financial and management accounts, and supports the VS Finance Director to achieve company objectives. The Finance Manager reports to the Group Financial Controller.

Accountability for managing the finance department and compliance matters

• Compliance with corporation tax, payroll taxes, and preparation of VAT returns
• Ensure timely preparation and submission of statutory reports for the markets
• Support the Finance Team on timely budget pack preparation and submission, ensuring local finance budgeting and forecasting processes align with company financial scheduling
• Cost analysis as a basis for decisions and investments
• Analysis of project results

Responsibility in compiling business results, cash flow reports and supporting business forecasts

• Support the team in reviewing monthly revenue, unbilled debtor calculation, and deferred income
• Support forecast submission and deviation analysis
• Lead the month‑end activities
• Prepare cash flow forecast and follow up
• Manage a complete set of reconciled balance sheet accounts
• Timely submission of key deliverables to management
• Lead price controlling and support the Finance Director for review and approval of all commercial proposals before submission to customers based on the delegation of authority
• Lead the approval of all purchases based on the delegation of authority

Management of daily finance tasks and ensuring completion of duties regarding general and analytics accounting, supplier ledger, sales ledger, cashbooks, payroll and taxes

• Ensure precise and timely bank reconciliation
• Ensure precise and timely balance sheet reconciliation
• Support the Finance team to perform precise and timely general ledger reconciliation
• Bank account management and online banking
• Supervise monthly payroll review and reconciliation
• Supervise invoice handling and payments
• Reconciliation of inter‑company accounts and tracking of pan‑European billing

Accountability in managing the finance tasks and compliance matters

• Manage and ensure the achievement of the annual audits

Supervision/Working With The Finance/Admin Team To Ensure

• Create accurate sales ledger, including liaison with Operations to obtain information and attention to the pan‑European sales invoices
• Ensure accurate supplier ledger and input of the monthly pan‑European supplier invoices
• Manage accruals and prepayments

Supervise the office facility tasks

Supervise and manage the car fleet.

Supervise/Work With The Finance/Admin Team To Ensure

• Efficient supplier contracts signature, maintenance, renewal and negotiation.

The Role Will Include Responsibilities At Procurement Level Including

• Ensure that procurement process and routines are in place as per company policies, and give constant contribution on policy improvement
• Approve purchases before the purchase process takes place
• Negotiate with suppliers, ensuring a sustainable procurement relationship
• Take initiative to lead efficiently changes (various projects)
• Discover profitable suppliers and initiate business and organization partnerships
• Management of annual quality and compliance audit
• Finalize purchase details of orders and deliveries
• Examine and test existing contracts to identify risk elements or opportunities for improvement
• Create or maintain company general terms and conditions and ensure that all suppliers stick to them

Working Pattern

• Full‑time role
• Rome – hybrid

Qualifications

Must: Bachelor’s degree in accounting or equivalent job experience.
Desirable: Fully qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA for international accounting rules such as US GAAP or equivalent local certifications.
Desirable: Master’s degree in accounting and/or business administration.

Experience

Must: Approximately 5 years relevant financial experience (likely at a medium‑sized company).
Must: Approximately 2 years of team management experience.
Must: Local tax and accounting experience.
Must: Experience with financial analysis tools.
Desirable: Experience finance work in project form.
Desirable: Knowledge in accounting tools (e.g., payroll tools), JD Edwards, forecasting (Smartview) and reporting (Insight & Oracle PBCS) software.
Desirable: Experience with change management.
Desirable: Experience in an international accounting environment.

Knowledge And Skills Required

Must: Computer literate with good Excel skills and a solid understanding of accounting software principles.

• Good leadership capacity with the ability to coach, motivate and lead others.
• Capable of taking initiative to drive the change of structural finance and operation management processes for the current situation and for the future.
• Enjoy working in a fast‑changing environment.
• Analytic, solution‑ and business‑oriented.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Result‑oriented and strongly self‑motivated.
• Ability to work under pressure and handle stress well.

Languages

Must: Fluent in Italian (written and spoken).
Must: Fluent in English (written and spoken).
Desirable: Other languages.

Others

• Full‑time and prepared to work overtime when needed.
• Must be prepared to travel.
• Driving licence.
• Broadband at home.

Eligible for corporate incentive plan if decided by management.

Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Full‑time

Job function

• Finance and Sales
• Automotive

MSX is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, neurodiversity or other personal characteristics and backgrounds, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, or marital and parental status. As users of the Disability Confident scheme, we interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.