Finance Manager

Finance Manager will be involved in Operational, Strategic Planning cycle and Business analysis/support, in particular:   

• Participation in the quarterly and yearly closing processes including: top line control, non-accruables clean up and control, collaboration with the local accounting and  financial team, control of the true ups/ true downs (reconciliation between revenue accruals and actual Royalty postings) and the other revenue postings and accruals; support of the licensing contracts activation process for revenue accrual postings; the cost accruals control
• Leading account receivables weekly tracking and monitoring process, taking the relevant actions when appropriate
• Support to category managers and licensees in technical and financial aspects of the licensing contracts as well as participation in the contract and business negotiations with the licensees with special focus on the financial terms to execute  strategy
• Leading and execution of Revenue/COGS/OPEX forecasting, budgeting and strategic planning processes in close cooperation with category managers, licensees and relevant Finance teams
• Support to Contract Management Center and Revenue Team in communications with Russian speaking licensees to speed up the processes of contracts activation and Royalty reports postings
• Support to the licensee’s risk assessment procedure if needed
• Coordination of the licensee’s audit process in cooperation with category managers and the Regional Audit Team in London
• Support to the key business and retail initiatives and projects implementation: the internal and external data collecting; modeling; analysis; decision-making support and presentation processes
• The team management and development