Director of Finance, Accounting and Reporting

The Director of Finance, Accounting and Reporting provides strategic, technical, and operational leadership for global accounting and reporting services, with a span of responsibility covering roughly 70+ Finance professionals operating within a Global Finance Shared Services organization. The role is accountable for the integrity, accuracy, timeliness, and control of financial results across the assigned businesses, legal entities, or regions, while ensuring effective delivery through a Global Finance shared services operating model.

This position combines deep accounting and financial control expertise with Director-level service delivery leadership. The Director leads complex Record-to-Report activities, period-end close, financial reporting, accounting advisory, controls, audit readiness, transition execution, process modernization, and stakeholder governance. The role serves as a trusted partner to Finance leaders, in-market teams, Controllership, FP&A, Internal and External Audit, Technology, and other Global Functions.
The Director also plays a key leadership role in Finance Transformation by driving process standardization, scalable service delivery, automation, responsible AI adoption, talent development, and sustainable transformation across Accounting and Reporting.

Position Responsibilities:

1. Accounting and Reporting Leadership

• Provide overall leadership and accountability for Accounting and Reporting services across the assigned business units, legal entities, regions, or global processes.
• Ensure complete, accurate, timely, and compliant financial records and reporting in accordance with applicable accounting standards, regulatory requirements, corporate policies, and internal controls.
• Deliver statutory, regulatory, and management reporting that is accurate, complete, and audit-ready.
• Oversee specialized accounting for insurance, reinsurance, and investments — premiums, claims and benefits, policy and actuarial reserves, treaty and ceded balances, investment income, and asset valuation.
• Act as senior escalation point for complex accounting judgments, unusual or non-standard transactions, and new or updated standards — including IFRS 17 and IFRS 9.
• Provide accounting advisory for new insurance and investment products, transactions, and regulatory change — turning technical complexity into clear decisions.

2. Period-End Close and Financial Control

• Direct month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities across integrated and non-integrated systems, ensuring disciplined execution against the close calendar.
• Govern general ledger accounts, accounting structures, chart of accounts integrity, and related master data within scope.
• Oversee the review, challenge, approval, and release of journal entries and account reconciliations in accordance with established controls and approval authorities.
• Ensure balances, movements, trends, and variances are understood, substantiated, and appropriately challenged before financial results are finalized.
• Monitor close performance through relevant service, quality, control, and timeliness measures, including right-first-time delivery and aged-item remediation.
• Identify recurring close issues and drive sustainable corrective actions in partnership with process owners, business units, and technology teams.
• Maintain clear accountability for the accuracy and completeness of Accounting and Reporting deliverables.

3. Financial Reporting and Accounting Advisory

• Oversee the preparation and review of statutory, regulatory, management, and internal financial reports within scope.
• Ensure reporting outputs are accurate, complete, relevant, and supported by clearly documented data lineage and control evidence.
• Lead the implementation of new or updated accounting and reporting standards within the assigned organization.
• Provide accounting advisory support for new products, business models, transactions, programs, regulatory changes, and other business initiatives.
• Assess financial and reporting impacts, develop technically supported positions, and escalate enterprise accounting policy interpretations through the appropriate governance channels.
• Translate complex accounting matters into clear, decision-useful information for senior stakeholders.
• Build technical accounting capability through targeted coaching, training, guidance, and risk-based quality reviews.

4. Controls, Compliance, Risk, and Audit Readiness

• Maintain a strong financial control environment across Accounting and Reporting operations.
• Ensure compliance with SOX requirements, accounting policies, regulatory obligations, governance standards, and established operating procedures.
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