Accounting Leader

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Position Summary: Accounting professional with experience in supervising operations under IFRS, tax compliance, and audit management, ensuring the accuracy and traceability of financial information. Key Highlights: 1. Lead accounting, taxation, and comprehensive financial management of the entity. 2. Ensure regulatory compliance and engagement with oversight authorities. 3. Provide key information for strategic decision-making. • Accounting Assurance: Supervise the continuous recording of transactions under IFRS and local regulations, ensuring that financial statements faithfully reflect the entity’s economic reality. • Regulatory Updates: Monitor changes in accounting, tax, and foreign exchange frameworks, assess their impact, and adjust the company’s internal policies accordingly. • Oversight Authority Engagement: Respond to requests from DIAN (Colombian Tax Authority), Superintendencies, Statutory Auditor, and External Auditors, ensuring timely delivery of information. • Tax Compliance: Calculate and timely file national taxes (Income Tax, VAT, ICUI, Withholding Tax) and municipal taxes (ICA), ensuring fulfillment of all tax obligations. • Manage international obligations such as the Foreign Assets Declaration, Transfer Pricing Report, and submission of domestic exogenous information. • Foreign Exchange Operations: Manage obligations before the Central Bank of Colombia arising from Compensation Accounts, ensuring accurate reporting of currency denominations and movements. • Prepare separate and consolidated financial statements in compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), ensuring they accurately and faithfully represent the entity’s economic and financial position. • Production Cost Control: Supervise the recording and analysis of production costs (raw materials, labor, transportation, promotion fees, and manufacturing overhead). • Inventory Management: Ensure proper valuation and accounting of inventories, including physical reconciliations, transfers, and sample control. • Supervise payroll settlement, social security contributions, and supplier payments, verifying strict adherence to documentary evidence and labor regulations. • Lead the organization, preservation, and custody of accounting, tax, and foreign exchange supporting documents, ensuring information traceability during audits and compliance with legal document retention periods. • Generate periodic financial statements and management reports integrating budget variance analysis, providing key information for financial planning and strategic decision-making by Senior Management. • Ensure timely updating and delivery of financial information required by banks, suppliers, customers, and other third parties. • Ensure execution of periodic bank reconciliations and control of balances in local and foreign currencies to maintain necessary operational liquidity. • Monthly valuation and reconciliation of foreign currency balances (assets and liabilities), ensuring correct recognition of realized and unrealized foreign exchange differences under IFRS and their tax implications. • Execute payments to suppliers, employees, and other legal obligations, ensuring authenticity of supporting documentation and compliance with the company’s internal control policies. • Lead ongoing portfolio management, ensuring adherence to agreed payment terms with domestic and international clients. Implement corrective and control actions to minimize portfolio aging. • Lead responses to Statutory Auditor requirements, ensuring compliance with audit schedules and facilitating access to necessary information for the performance of their duties. • Sign financial statements and issue monthly certifications of social security and parafiscal contributions, as well as certifications required by governmental and financial entities. • Stay updated on changes in accounting, tax, and foreign exchange regulatory frameworks, assess their impact on the company, and adjust internal policies when necessary . -Requirements- Minimum Education: Postgraduate Degree / Specialization 4 years of experience Knowledge Areas: Regulatory compliance, Bank reconciliations, Accounting, Financial reporting, Financial statements, Labor laws, IFRS Keywords: head, manager, manager, director, chief, lead, leadership, regent, accountant, paymaster, controller, accountant, billing clerk, treasurer, accountant