Finance Manager - ANZ

Accounting & Financial Operations:

• Financial reporting: Ownership and responsibility for all financial accounting and reporting for the AU and NZ entities.   Ensure timely & accurate month, interim and year end close activities for each entity in the South Asia region including Division/Group reporting and related disclosures. Responsible to clear aged balance sheet items on a timely basis, including but not limited to consistent reviews of program-related accounts. Ad hoc reporting such as Treasury (Bonds & Guarantees, Hedging, FX, and Cash Pooling), IFRS disclosures & analyses, Tax and Compliance.  Ensure compliance with all internal accounting policies and all relevant external accounting standards. 
• Business partnering: Understanding and reporting of financial information, including working capital, cashflows, order intake, revenues and margins; communication and presentation of the financial information to Smiths Detection management and stakeholders.  \ that internal policies are followed.  Oversee monthly balance sheet reconciliation process.  Ensure the business is compliant with all Smiths Group & Smiths Detection policies and procedures, such as delegation of authority, expense procedures, capex applications, foreign exchange, etc. Comply with and promote all relevant legal requirements & Smiths policies and procedures, including business ethics, data protection and health & safety.  Recommend improvements when appropriate.  Monitor business control effectiveness and develop/execute improvement plans
• Audit: Primary responsibility for managing the Australia and New Zealand entities' relationship with external and internal auditors, and ensuring that the audits are completed on time. 
• Risk management: Ensure that there is an effective risk management process in place to mitigate key problems and issues.  Responsible for new customer and vendor credit controls.  Responsible for ensuring strong control on credit and vendor management through annual credit limit review and vendor master date clean up etc.
• Statutory obligations including responsibility for indirect tax: Fulfil all statutory reporting & filing requirements for the two legal entities in the region including responsibility for annual statutory accounts and ensuring local tax compliance (GST, income tax, payroll tax, FBT etc).

Finance Team Management:

• Finance leadership: Role model with excellent people management, facilitation, and communication skills. Manage the annual performance review cycle and associated activities for direct reports according to internal policies and procedures.
• Talent development: Proactive talent coaching and succession planning, to ensure that the finance team develops the skills, experience and expertise to drive business forward and at the same time develop their career options within Smiths Group.

Banking and Treasury; Payroll and Other:

• Responsible for defining funding and hedging requests and ensure divisional treasury policies are followed.
• Ensure accurate monthly and weekly cash forecast.
• Responsibility for intra group loan and dividend working with division treasury team.
• Payroll approval for AU (fortnightly) and NZ (monthly).
• Support the organization in ad hoc projects (regulatory compliance, System improvement (SAP) & implementation of new tools, etc.
• Technical Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Experienced CPA or CA Qualified with at least 12 years of finance-related experience including exposure in a managerial role
• Demonstrates the required functional and/or technical knowledge and skills to achieve both compliance and quality, confident in IFRS
• Strategic & analytical expertise to generate & recommend options/decision in complex market environment and solve problems
• Proactive, highly motivated, results driven to persistently pursue and achieve business and financial objectives
• Effective and collaborative communicator, experienced with global and multicultural teams and with ability to build strong working relationships
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, as well as presentation skills
• Experience of working on ERP, SAP preferred
• Willing and able to identify and support change and continuous improvement in own and wider business environment.