Financial Coordinator | Business Tax Delivery Center

Voted the Most Desired Employer in Romania, in the Financial Services Industry, five consecutive times, in the Catalyst surveys, Deloitte Romania provides services in audit, tax, legal, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, business processes as well as technology services, through 2,000 professionals. The Regional Audit Delivery Center (RADC) provides Audit services to various Country Member Firms from Deloitte Central Europe and to their clients. The Tax & Legal Delivery Center (TLDC) offers services focused on 5 service lines: GES (Global Employer Services), Business Tax, Global Tax Center Europe, Global Trade Advisory (GTA) and Legal Center of Excellence (CoE).
Worldwide, Deloitte serves four out of five Fortune Global 500 companies through a globally connected network of member firms in more than 150 countries and territories, with over 330,000 professionals. The organization is recognized among “World’s Best Workplaces™” by Great Place to Work® and Fortune and among “World’s Most Attractive Employers”, by Universum, according to 2020 surveys.

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To qualify for the role you must have:
• Previous experience of working within a finance function
• A high level of experience dealing with time recording and reporting software (e.g. SAP)
• Strong communication skills and an ability to liaise effectively with teams within the wider firm;
• Excellent customer service skills showing attention to detail and customer focus, with a good understanding of the team’s needs and priorities,
• Excellent communication skills and a proven ability to manage, influence and drive actions within a team to achieve desired outcomes;
• Excellent organisational and planning skills;
• Ability to deal with a number of tasks, prioritising and responding as appropriate;
• Able to work autonomously as well as part of a team
• Good attention to detail
• A drive to continually improve processes
• Excellent numerical/analytical skills with advanced Excel skills , including knowledge of macros.

The proposed position will be responsible for driving the financial performance of the Deloitte Transactions Tax business. The successful candidate will
• Work closely with the team (currently c.200 individuals) within Transactions Tax, assisting them with Deloitte’s new time recording and reporting systems in order to ensure the team can properly manage the financial aspects of their client relationships;
• Take responsibility for coordinating with the wider finance team to produce monthly financial reports packs; and
• Work closely with the Business Unit Financial Co-ordinator whose job it is to assist the partners within the team in managing the financial aspects of their client relationships.

This will be a customer focused role, providing support to the team. The role will require a strong understanding of time recording and financial reporting software. The candidate will report to the Transactions Tax COO.
Successful candidates will have a proven ability to drive best practice financial behaviors within the business and, ultimately, improve financial results

Responsibilities
Working closely with the team, tasks will include:
• Relationship management
o Working closely with the team to help them solve their queries in regards to the time recording and reporting software.
o Assisting senior members of the team (below partner level) with managing their job codes.
o Ownership of complex financial issues and follow through to solutions.
o Coaching the team on complex SWIFT and financial principles, as required.
o Assisting the COO to monitor team compliance with key metrics and chasing individuals in the team where appropriate where metrics are not being met.

• Monthly financial reporting
o Responsible for preparing financial reports and analysis for inclusion within monthly team financial reporting packs
o Co-ordinating with the Finance team to obtain information for inclusion within monthly team financial reports
o Regular discussions with the COO to understand KPI’s to be covered in monthly financial reports.
o Discuss the financial reporting packs with the COO prior to distribution to partners and where appropriate the wider team.

• Adhoc responsibilities
o Invoicing – To help with the team with invoicing for urgent and complicated invoices
o Engagement Management Set up - Advise the engagement team on the structure for new client work based on billing arrangements, services to be delivered and firm-wide reporting requirements.
o Debtor management - Develop billing plan and collection schedule based on client agreements and consideration of client/Inter-firm payment process. Assist in resolving both client and supplier invoice queries.