Regional M&e Manager

**Job summary**: Reporting to Latam VP Finance and member of LT Finance Leadership team and dotted line to VP M&E Managing Director. Responsible for supporting a multicounty area with diverse issues and business drivers. Responsibilities include standardization and improvement of accounting practices, processes and controls as well as ad-hoc financial reporting and analysis. It will include coordinating local M&E finance and/or Ops teams to improve local event closing, billing and invoiging processes end to end. This position works closely with local finance leadership, supports the regional M&E SLT as well as M&E Global CFO and his team. **Skills and Qualifications** - A minimum of four years of General Accounting experience required - Advanced Microsoft Excel capabilities - Proficient in Microsoft Word - Strong organizational skills. - Customer service skills. - Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing. - Excellent English skills both spoken and written. - Effective time management skills, with a strong ability to manage multiple projects and strict deadlines. - Ability to work well under pressure and adapt to ever-changing scenarios; ability to respond to change. - Strong attention to detail. - Previous accounting experience in A/P, A/R, and client billing is strongly desired - Ability to initiate new ideas. - Inter-personal and customer skills with ability to build relationships with customers. - Capability of problem solving - Anticipating, initiating and resolving issues. Ability to manage and prioritize numerous projects simultaneously - Ability to work well under pressure in a high-volume environment - Strong change management skills - Capability of problem solving - anticipating, initiating and resolving issues - Strong written and verbal skills to interact with vendors, clients, and colleagues **Main responsibilities** **Accounting Process** - Define standard Regional M&E accounting policy. - Define M&E event's closing and billing process per country, identify accounting information flow from Ops to Finance systems and into the P&L (System, process and roles) (Revenue Recognition, Unbilled, BIlling discrepancies and Invoicing) - Define M&E credit card reconciliation process per country (System, process and roles) - Get involved and provide input to Ops, Finance and Technology areas on local and regional Technology enhancement and roadmap to support accounting process - Establish controls and improvement plans by market - Coordinate local M&E finance teams **Payment and Collection process** - Define standard Regional and by market M&E advance payment approval process in alignment with local finance policies - Define standard Regional and by market M&E customer deposit process in alignment with local finance policies - Define standard Regional and by market M&E credit card payment approval process in alignment with local finance policies" **Customer Profitability** - Define and maintain Regional Standard Customer Profitability Model - Coordinate Customer Profitability Updates by markets - Coordinate actions plans by customer / market with local Ops and Finance teams when required **Pricing** - Work with regional AM and Global Pricing. - Coordinate regional and local M&E pricing and costing exercises working with local and regional stakeholders. - Establish standard pricing and costing in each market for (Fee, DOE and Rate Card proposals)." **Business Case** - Working with internal stakeholders. - lead preparation of quantitative analysis and modelling to support decision making (Shared Resources Allocation). **Forecast and Budgeting process** - Support M&E forecast and Budget processes - A minimum of four years of General Accounting experience required - Advanced Microsoft Excel capabilities - Proficient in Microsoft Word - Strong organizational skills. - Customer service skills. - Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing. - Excellent English skills both spoken and written. - Effective time management skills, with a strong ability to manage multiple projects and strict deadlines. - Ability to work well under pressure and adapt to ever-changing scenarios; ability to respond to change. - Strong attention to detail. - Previous accounting experience in A/P, A/R, and client billing is strongly desired - Ability to initiate new ideas. - Inter-personal and customer skills with ability to build relationships with customers. - Capability of problem solving - Anticipating, initiating and resolving issues. - Ability to manage and prioritize numerous projects simultaneously - Ability to work well under pressure in a high-volume environment - Strong change management skills - Capability of problem solving - anticipating, initiating and resolving issues - Strong written and verbal skills to interact with vendors, clients, and colleagues