Reporting & Location The Team Lead SSC GL reports to the EMEA Record to Report Manager. The role is located in Beirut, Lebanon. Mission As the SSC GL Team Lead, you will be responsible for overseeing the EMEA Shared Service Center General Ledger team located in Lebanon. You will play a pivotal role in transforming our financial operations, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring compliance with established policies and procedures while maintaining the deadlines. You will assist the EMEA Record to Report Manager with ad hoc tasks with focus on digitalization, optimization and process improvements You will work closely together with the SSC GL Team Lead based in Belgium.

Main Accountabilities

Team leadership and development:

• Recruit, onboard and train qualified team members
• Establish clear performance expectations & provide ongoing coaching
• Foster a positive and collaborative work environment, encouraging teamwork and professional growth among team members, and sharing best practices and knowledge
• Key expert in D365 in order to provide support to the team members in any system issues and to organize correct testing in Microsoft D365 F&O.

Process Optimization

• Identify areas for automation that enhance process efficiency
• Identify opportunities for process optimization, cost reduction and increased service quality
• Lead and support continuous improvement initiatives, encouraging a culture of innovation and efficiency
• Participate in different kind of projects (RPA, Onestream implementations, PowerApps/Power Automate, Set up PowerBI Dashboards), M&A integration and ERP migrations;

Compliance And Risk Management

• Ensure compliance with relevant accounting principles, policies, and regulatory requirements in all RTR activities.
• Collaborate with internal and external audit and finance teams to address any compliance or risk-related issues
• Develop and implement controls to safeguard financial data and mitigate risks

General Ledger

• Monitoring and report on the team s KPI s
• Ensure accurate, consistent, standard and timely GL process execution, including but not limited to , follow-up & review of reconciliation activities for balance sheet accounts, follow-up & review of journals and calculations according to the AFEM, and execution of checks on the correctness of the postings and reconciliations.
• Assist in the monthly analysis and review of the balance sheet and aged items.
• Assist in the monthly closing checks to ensure proper presentation of the balance sheet
• Perform all monthly activities within agreed deadlines.
• Review financial data from newly acquired entities in preparation of the ERP migration.
• Other occurring or necessary activities to improve the SSC process (including, for example, system changes).

Desired Candidate Profile

Skills and qualifications:

• Bachelor s or Master s degree in Finance/Accounting (strong knowledge of IFRS).
• Minimum 2 3 years of experience in R2R or Shared Services.
• Ownership, leadership and cross-functional collaboration
• Leadership without authority
• Conflict resolution and diplomacy
• Coaching and mentoring
• Strategic thinking and process awareness
• Strong stakeholder management
• Delivery of qualitative and reliable output;
• Hands on mentality with flexibility regarding job duties and scope of work
• Enthusiasm