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JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY You will be responsible for driving technical accounting compliance, financial and operational internal controls, process simplification, and operational excellence to deliver accurate actual financial reporting and analysis. You'll interpret internal and external business challenges and recommend best practices to improve products, processes or services, and utilize understanding of industry trends to inform decision making process. - Le/La contrôleur(euse) financier(ère) régional(e) FBFA (France Belux Afrique Francophone) collaborera avec les diverses équipes commerciales et opérationnelles afin de prendre de solides décisions financières pour la branche. En outre, il/elle sera à la tête d'une équipe implantée sur divers sites et garantira un reporting précis et dans les délais, et ce, conformément aux exigences des normes comptables américaines GAAP, des réglementations locales et des exigences fiscales. JOB DESCRIPTION RESPONSIBILITIES LEADERSHIP * Manage a team of people that cover a range of key controllership activities for the region * Build strong relationships with Business Process Outsourcing teams (BPOs), the EMEA Finance team and the wider GE Healthcare business for a successful working partnership * Lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity. Presents business solutions to leaders in functional area. Communicates complex messages and negotiates mainly internally with others to adopt a different point of view. Influences peers to take action and may negotiate with external partners, vendors, or customers. * Have major influence on small business unit, a segment within a larger business unit, a family within a Function or a P&L business segment and has ownership/influence over budgets. The role is guided by functional policy. The role influences policy/operating guidelines about important subjects. * Lead others to find creative solutions to address complex problems that may impact the organization. Has the ability to evaluate quality of information received and questions conflicting data for analysis. Uses multiple internal and external resources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision. REPORTING & MONITORING * Drive consistent and effective policies and procedures during monthly/quarterly close process including account reconciliations, GEHC Data Request (DR) submissions, representation letters and adjusting entries * Perform financial analysis of HCS EMEA FBFA Balance Sheet accounts to ensure US GAAP compliance, integrity of account balances/financial reporting and effectiveness of business processes * Coordinate the Balance Sheet activities performed throughout the region including the preparation and review performed in BPOs. Identify and highlight any potential accounting adjustments found and drive timely closure of open items and proactively work to prevent future issues. Lead corrective actions and follow up throughout the organization * Work closely with financial and operational leadership to pro-actively assess and manage financial risk and manage the quarterly CFO risk reviews, monthly controllership/BPO reviews with key operations and financial management personnel * Research and advise on non-commercial Significant Accounting Matters (SAM) items by understanding topics in the BPO or sub-regions and manage the communication and review process for timely resolution of these matters * Partner with external auditors to lead efficient and cost-effective statutory audit process in the region * Partner with internal auditors and Finance leadership teams to support internal GE Healthcare compliance reviews (including SOX 404 compliance) SIMPLIFICATION * Monitor and provide leadership for GE Healthcare controllership initiatives, simplification projects and integration activities. QUALIFICATIONS: * Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration and minimum of 12 years of relevant financial work experience * Demonstrated proficiency in US GAAP, local GAAP and authoritative accounting literature * Experience building up teams and processes in a multi-cultural, international environment, ideally in one of GE’s industrial businesses. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: * CPA/ ACCA qualification or Big 4 experience, Masters' degree in Business Administration * Strong analytic skills: able to clearly link financial results to operational performance drivers, generate alternatives and drive positive change * Clear thinking / problem solving: successfully led cross-functional projects/process improvement within operations/finance function involving process improvement; able to quickly grasp new ideas. * Excellent communication skills: experience working across multiple levels (including executive level), functions and regions; able to clearly communicate complex financial information in an easy to understand manner; able to deliver message effectively verbally and in writing * Solid PC skills: experience with financial systems/applications (i.e.: Oracle, SAP, Business Objects, etc.), strong Excel skills, PowerPoint * Fluency in English * Confidence / Assertiveness: strong influencing skills across business functions; confidence to approach business leaders with difficult messages and defend position * Experience working in global business environment with sound understanding of global process and transactional flows * Experience in a matrixed environment * Adaptable/flexible: open to change (positive or negative) in response to new information, different or unexpected circumstances, and/or to work in ambiguous situations * Integrity: Accepting and adhering to high moral, ethical, and personal values in decisions, communications, actions, and when dealing with others * Good understanding of financial compliance: SOX, GAAP * Trained and/or certified in process improvement methodology such as LEAN or Six Sigma. * Graduate of GE's Financial Management Program (FMP); or Corporate Audit Staff (CAS); Experienced Financial Leadership Program (EFLP) or graduate of other financial leadership programs / CAP / ACCA * Previous GE experience strongly preferred * External reporting experience in public company. 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