International School Partnership Careers22 Oct | International School Partnership Careers | MadridHead of Finance – St George, BarcelonaLocation: On site school location, BarcelonaThe Role: The Head of Finance – Barcelona position will be responsible for the ISP school in the city of Barcelona. This position will have a direct reporting line into the Head of the school and a dotted reporting line into the Regional Finance Director for the Iberia region. The person in this role will be a key finance representative of the Iberia Finance team. The individual will be responsible for ensuring all financial and tax information is controlled and accurately reported, in accordance with strict deadlines, to satisfy all internal and external reporting requirements for each school and to support the Heads of the school in the day-to-day financial operations and commercial activities of the schools.Main Responsibilities:Statutory and Management Reporting and Financial Planning: Review and control to ensure financial transactions are recorded accurately in the ISP Group transactional and consolidation system NetSuite, in accordance with the ISP Group reporting requirements. Work closely with the centralised Regional Billing team to implement internal financial processes and procedures to ensure the accurate recording of all revenue transactions for the schools. Manage the accurate and timely recording of all supplier invoices for the schools. Produce and review timely financial statements, P&L, Balance sheet and Cash flows, including regular reconciliation to internal management reporting. Conduct quarterly reviews of balance sheet movements and perform reconciliation on all key and material balances. Responsible for the annual budget and the P&L forecasting process for the schools. Produce monthly management reporting and review monthly actual variances to the schools' budgets, providing useful explanations, to drive corrective action, if needed. Establish processes to ensure accurate data collection and review of monthly KPI data for the schools' enrolments and the schools' headcount.Control and Compliance: Establish and maintain a robust internal control and compliance environment, with regular balance sheet review and reconciliations, to ensure external and internal reporting is free of material misstatement. Work with the centralised collections team to understand aged debtors for the schools and support as necessary to collect all outstanding amounts. Support the annual Group audit, by being the point of contact for the auditors, for the schools in Madrid. Monitor and follow up on external audit issues and implement recommended improvements. Ensure accounting treatment is consistent and aligned with Group accounting policies. Where there are local differences, maintain a reconciliation of locally reported figures to Group reported. Ensure all external statutory financial filings are made in accordance with required deadlines.Cash Flow and Capex: Responsible for ensuring that local cash management is optimised.
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