Finance Manager

**Finance Manager, Brazil Country Finance**
You will join our Brazil Country Finance team as a manager in our Sao Paulo office.
The Country Finance function is part of Macquarie Finance Management Group and focused on the financial control, financial reporting, financial compliance, and legal entity control of Macquarie Group subsidiaries in Brazil.
You will play a very key role which is a mix of delivery responsibilities, process ownership and talent management.
Functionally, you will act as financial controller for the legal entities and would require a solid awareness of the businesses you will be supporting.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Holding legal entity controller titles for entities, ensuring integrity and completeness of financial records, including monthly transaction processing, reconciliations and the establishment of accounting processes and policies, and presenting and discussing with senior stakeholders
- Reviewing accounting records including preparation of financial statements including balance sheets, income statements, cash flows, supporting schedules, footnotes, and detailed analysis as required
- Developing a strong business understanding over time and use it to provide context to accounting and financial matters.
- Regular compliance activities which form part of ongoing monitoring and control - monthly financial review of entity balances, attestation of all Legal Entity owned balances, impairment reviews, preparation of financial reports for Board Meetings
- Work collaboratively with various counter parties and manage responses to queries from external service providers and Macquarie central management reporting requests
- Preparing and reviewing balance sheet commentaries (quarterly), legal entity recaps and funding for transaction investments, cash settlements of inter company balances as well as managing foreign exchange exposure and reviewing journals for hedging
- Outsource service providers management;
- Reconciliation & attestation of balances - process, outcomes, breaks and resolution of issues
- Completeness and Accuracy of ledger data for Reporting / Tax / Legal Entity Control & Analytical requirements
- Identify and proactively resolve issues that could result in financial misstatements and classification errors
- Managing group regulatory reporting submissions and tax submissions
- Supporting in the set-up of the accounts payable system
- Feeding into group-wide initiatives and projects
To be successful you will have a postgraduate accounting qualification, preferably CA or CPA possessing 7-10 years' experience in Financial Accounting (essential) in the Financial industry.
You will also need to be confident and competent in oral and written communication skills.
You would need to be willing to work in different time zones to support requirements across geographies.
Being a self-starter with strong control mind set and the ability to demonstrate capability and willingness to be "hands-on" is required.
Having the ability to demonstrate strong planning and organizing skills that helps balance between often competing priorities is also a requirement.
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You will be required to continually question and attempt to improve the control environment that the business operates in and take responsibility and ownership of own work, ensuring adherence to timetable and work plan and maintaining high quality of the deliverable.
**About the Financial Management Group**
The Financial Management Group provides financial, tax and treasury services to all areas of Macquarie.
The group is focused on providing strategic analysis and advice to Macquarie's businesses and senior management, managing Macquarie's funding, liquidity and capital position, ensuring Macquarie continues to meet regulatory and compliance obligations and managing Macquarie's corporate communications and investor relations.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or protected veteran status.
Macquarie takes affirmative action in support of its policy to and advance in employment individuals who are minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.
**Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**
The diversity of our people is one of our greatest strengths, and an inclusive workplace enables us to embrace that diversity to deliver more innovative and sustainable solutions for our people, clients, shareholders and communities.
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If you're inspired to deliver on our purpose of 'empowering people to innovate and invest for a better future', we want you on our team.
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