International Accounting Manager

Summary:

Acoustic is seeking an Accounting Manager for the EMEA/LATAM regions to join our team to ensure local compliance in a number of international countries across EMEA and LATAM for statutory accounts and indirect / direct tax compliance as well as provides timely and accurate financial information, and efficiently responds to inquiries from management. Reports to the International Financial Controller in London. Our Accounting team supports our international company operating in 10 countries. Acoustic is a growing, global enterprise Marketing Automation SaaS company.

Key Responsibilities:

Day to Day
• Primary contact in all EMEA countries with outsourced accountants, tax advisors, payroll and being aware of any compliant changes and working with external advisors to ensure our countries remain compliant.
• Managing the production of the statutory accounts, payroll compliance, indirect and direct tax compliance and reporting with external auditors, tax advisors, local accountants in all EMEA countries
• Co-ordinating and liaising with the auditors and managing the Groups audit engagement; primary contact for external auditors for annual and periodic audits and all ongoing tax requirements. Agreeing the timetable and requirements upfront and ensuring Internal & external party work to the agreed deadlines.
• Manage statutory and provide monthly oversight for payroll compliance for all countries in the region. Be the focal with our external payroll providers in all EMEA ensuring adequate controls.
• Manage EMEA payroll providers in accordance with service agreements ensuring SLA’s & compliance
• Manage and ensure financial compliance, governance and oversight for the Acoustic subsidiaries in EMEA
• Assist payroll with dealing with payroll queries from EMEA employees.
• Take responsibility for the UK payroll collating all payroll changes and inputs and ensuring payroll is complete and accurate
• Preparation and submission of UK pension contributions
• Contribute to the development of EMEA accounting operations and internal business controls across all areas of the business, challenging assumptions and decision-making as appropriate, and providing financial analysis and guidance on all activities, plans, targets and business drivers
• Manage strong working relationships with external parties including customers, vendors, banking institutions and accountants
• Assist auditing T&E reports submitted by regional employees through expense system ensuring compliance to local laws and regulations.
• Ability to understand contract terms and other business matters and translate them into the appropriate application of U.S. GAAP
• Provide a high level of customer service within Accounting and to our non-Accounting business partners including sales teams
• Responds to inquiries from the CFO, Chief Accounting Officer, Controller, HR, Legal and company wide managers regarding financial results, special reporting requests etc.
• Form a close working relationship with the EMEA & EMEA senior leadership team
• A solid understanding of internal control design and operational efficiency. Leading ongoing country compliance and ensuring robust control environment is in place across the regions.
• Constantly working with budget holders ensuring costs are in line with plan & always looking for ways to reduce cost.
• Supporting the overall transition of ERP systems, finance/accounting systems, processes and procedures
• Identify opportunities to enhance the efficiency of existing processes and propose improvements to streamline the use of key business metrics.