Finance Manager - Italian Gaap

Finance Manager - Italy

Job Purpose

We are looking for Finance Manager responsible for Statutory and Tax Compliance to manage our local obligations for Italy plus any additional compliance related tasks.

This is great opportunity to manage one of our biggest countries' filings and be part of a global organisation and play a key role in a large Finance team. You are a team player, with a hands-on approach.

This is a hybrid working position; the in office working pattern is built around the local internal requirements, but also statutory and tax timetable. You will support all legal entities of the country and assist with local audits. We need someone who is used to adopting a hands-on approach with good technology skills.

The position is for a full-time employee role.

Key Responsibilities

• Work as part of a global set up which includes shared service centres and group functions focusing on the country specific requirements
• Manage all teams relevant to local filings to ensure deadlines and local requirements are met
• Build proactive working relationships with the business partners within the organisation
• Local tax and statutory filings

• Responsibility to prepare, and manage and execute tasks
• Review and control data received from business partners
• Meet deadlines and requirements in a proactive fashion: including e-filings of monthly and annual requirements, and other local informative returns.
• Ensure payroll compliance and reporting in collaboration with HR/payroll teams
• Coordinate payment and filing of relevant local documentation
• Contact point for authorities and manage inspections/audits
• Provide relevant support for group tax reporting when required

• Local and group audits

• Responsibility to prepare, and manage and ensure completeness
• Review and control data received from business partners
• Meet deadlines and requirements
• Contact point for auditors

• Assist with company secretarial activities, specific to the country
• Undertake a range of other commercial activities as the local country finance representative (i.e. banking, external partner and supplier tasks required onsite or with local language dependencies).

Skills, Experience & Qualifications

• Accounting or Tax Qualification
• 10 years+ experience, including recent experience in a similar level role (ideally within a multinational business environment)
• Technically strong, with a working knowledge of Italian GAAP
• Proven ability to meet statutory compliance obligations
• Extensive experience of producing Statutory Accounts and Annual Reports and documents relating to other statutory and company secretarial requirements
• Flexible approach, adaptable to change
• Excellent communication skills - previous experience of working remotely an advantage
• Self-motivated
• Native Italian language and fluent in English

About the company

IWG has been at the forefront of flexible working for more than 30 years. With over 3,500 locations around the globe, spanning brands including Regus, Spaces, Signature and HQ, we have made it possible for businesses of all sizes to make the transition to hybrid working, empowering employees to work wherever and whenever is most convenient.

We help more than 8 million people and their businesses to work more productively, supported by a choice of professional, inspiring and collaborative workspaces, communities and services.

As the world's leading provider of hybrid work solutions, with four times the number of locations compared to its nearest competitor, IWG is already working with over 80% of the Fortune 500 and counts businesses including Amazon, Netflix, EY and Uber amongst its customers.

Companies of all sizes are shifting to flexible working to lower costs, improve employee retention and lower their carbon emissions. The flexible workspace is expected to grow by 600% by 2023, when 30% of all office space will be hybrid. We are growing our network faster than ever to keep up with demand from customers as we work towards our goal of reaching 30,000 centres.

Carbon Neutral Workplaces

IWG's purpose of helping everyone have a great day at work, while protecting people and the planet is at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to supply all of our customers worldwide with carbon neutral workplaces, and we have a strong climate action plan in place to help us achieve our objective of Net Zero emissions by 2040.

Leading Employer AwardIWG is proud to be the recipient of a Leading Employer Award in both 2022 and 2023. Awarded exclusively to the top 1% of employers, the accolade is testament to our diverse global workforce and the role everyone plays in bringing our purpose, culture and values to life, every single day.

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