Head of Accounting EMEA

Sinch is a Customer Communication Cloud company, directly powering meaningful conversations at scale across messaging, voice and email to help businesses deliver unified, personalized experiences that truly revolve around their customers – no matter the channels they use. More than 150,000 businesses – including many of the world’s largest tech companies, rely on us for their customer communication needs.

We dream big – for our company, our customers and our employees – and we hire the best talent worldwide to help us bring our vision to life. We have near 4,500 Sinchers in more than 60 countries – probably somewhere near you!

About the role

As Head of Accounting EMEA, you will have the primary responsibility for delivering EMEA’s final accounting statements for around 40 legal entities, together with your team. To help you deliver you will have two direct reports and a finance team of 25 people in EMEA.  

Sinch Finance department is currently going through a big transformation, which provides a great opportunity for you to have a significant impact, and make a mark, on Finance Operations and Sinch as a whole, including its work going forward. Two of the projects that are ongoing are the implementation of a new global ERP system and create a new process governance where you will be heavily involved and have the role as a stream lead.

The role reports to Malin Guss, Head of Finance Operations EMEA, and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Key responsibilities:

Leadership:

• Manage a team of two Chief Accountants with responsibility for the work split within the full team and build a positive and inclusive team culture
• Be accountable for delivering financial statements for the legal entities within the EMEA region
• Define and follow up on KPIs
• Be responsible for identifying competency needs and planning competency development for the team

Project management:

• Be responsible for and take part of projects within the accounting scope related to finance ERP transformation

Process Management:

• Lead and be responsible for defining and setting a global process governance structure within the accounting scope and be the global process owner for R2R

About you:

To be successful in the role you are a commercially and business focused accountant that have a visionary and strategic mindset yet with strong hands-on ability and understanding, willingness to deep dive into details when required. You are a strong communicator that is clear, concise, engaging and persuasive across stakeholder groups, adapting the content & language to the audience.

• Extensive work experience in accounting and financial statements, preferably with experience in developing final account processes, as well as creating new routines and processes with shown good results
• Proven experience of setting up a governance process structure relating to R2R
• Experience of leading ERP transformation, and projects
• Leadership experience
• Experience in a global complex company, preferably listed company
• Fluent in English, both verbal and written skills

Our Values 

At Sinch we “Dream Big”, “Win Together”, “Keep it simple” and “Make it Happen”. These values are our foundation for fostering an environment where diversity of thinking, skills and experiences are embraced, delivering innovation and better business results. 

Bring your authentic self to Sinch 

Here at Sinch we embrace diversity and work to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. No matter who you are, you'll be able to explore new career and growth options - sharing your voice, building your path and making it happen with us. 

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will be considered to join our team regardless of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. 

Our Hiring Process  

At Sinch, we are committed to following a recruitment process that is fair, objective, consistent, and non-discriminatory. We use pre-employment assessment to create an inclusive application experience to help foster diverse and high performing teams.  

Even if you do not meet all job requirements, don't let that stop you from considering Sinch for the next step in your career. We are always looking for people that could help us pioneer the way the world communicates.  

If this role isn't what you're looking for, please consider other open roles on our career page: https://www.sinch.com/careers/