Description
Job Summary:
We are seeking a professional to manage and verify the company's finances, control budgets and CAPEX, and ensure the integrity of financial information.
Key Highlights:
1. World leader in quality and integrity with a global presence.
2. Opportunity for development and continuous training.
3. Key role in the company's financial control and analysis.
**Company Description**
* SGS is the world leader in inspection, verification, testing, training, and certification. It is recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity, with over 95,000 employees and a network of more than 2,400 offices and laboratories worldwide
**Job Description**
* Ensure that information related to the company's finances is integrated.
* Verify accounting entries against submitted financial reports.
* Organize and consolidate the budgets required for proper financial planning of the department.
* Monitor departmental CAPEX projects and evaluate progress on a monthly basis.
* Ensure correct application of the financial manual, corporate policies, and applicable official laws or statutes governing the finance function and/or the company's financial figures.
* Conduct cost and expense analysis for the department or designated divisions and provide relevant recommendations.
* Guarantee compliance with established timelines for analysis and delivery of information at both local and corporate levels.
* Analyze and report all financial information for the department or designated areas.
* Generate timely information regarding processes or situations that deviate from company guidelines, standards, or regulations, and that may jeopardize the integrity of financial data, company assets, or financial results.
* Ensure reliability of reports transmitted to management.
* Monitor and track risks that may arise within the organization and that could impact financial results, cash flow, or company assets, reporting them to the immediate supervisor when necessary.
* OPEX validation: generate a monthly report comparing expenses against the prior year, forecast, and actual month, explaining any deviations. If expenses fall below forecast.
* Ensure correct use of distribution tables, validating that appropriate percentage allocations are applied to each cost center.
* Develop distribution tables based on square meters (M2) and Full-Time Equivalents (FTE). If a specific expense cannot be allocated using the general tables, a dedicated table must be created following instructions from the immediate supervisor.
* Track contracts related to rental expenses, vehicles, insurance policies, security, general services, utilities, leasing, surveillance cameras, and transportation—applicable both to Colombia and the CAM region. Hold monthly meetings with personnel managing ADM department contracts to update this database.
* Validate national information for preparing RCs with the national stationery and cleaning supplier.
* Distribute insurance policy charges across respective sectors.
* Review inventory of cleaning supplies and materials. Prepare RCs and incoming goods receipts.
Any other duties assigned by the immediate supervisor.
**Requirements** **Academic Qualifications:** Business Administration, Accounting, International Business Administration, or related fields
**Experience:** Minimum 2 years of experience in accounting, treasury, billing, administrative, or financial functions involving cost control and financial planning.
**Technical Knowledge:** Basic finance, costs, budgeting, accounting, Excel.
**Note 1:** Regarding technical knowledge, if not fully met, the company will ensure compliance and follow-up through inclusion in its training/capacitation program.
**Additional Information**
Contract for a specific project or service, with potential for direct employment with SGS Colombia based on performance