Finance & Accounting Team Leader in Porto
⚡Lead a high-performing finance team in a global health tech company! 🌍 Drive excellence, empower people, and shape smarter processes as our Finance & Accounting Team Leader. 💼✨
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Finance & Accounting Team Leader – Global Shared Services
Join a world leader in diabetes technology — a company that’s redefining what’s possible in automated insulin delivery and improving millions of lives worldwide. 💙
We design and manufacture cutting-edge medical devices that empower patients, support healthcare providers, and create a healthier, brighter future.
🚀 Your Role
Lead, Inspire, and Drive Financial Excellence
We’re looking for a Finance & Accounting Team Leader who’s ready to make an impact!
You’ll lead a team of finance professionals managing Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR/O2C), and Record-to-Report (R2R) activities — ensuring top-notch accuracy, efficiency, and compliance. 💪
This is more than a numbers role — it’s about developing people, optimizing processes, and delivering excellence every day.
🎯 Your Key Responsibilities
- ✔️ Lead, mentor, and motivate a talented F&A team — fostering collaboration and growth.
- ✔️ Oversee end-to-end finance operations across AP, AR/O2C, R2R, and GL activities.
- ✔️ Ensure timely and accurate invoice processing, collections, reconciliations, and reporting.
- ✔️ Handle escalations, complex queries, and stakeholder communications with professionalism.
- ✔️ Track team performance against KPIs and SLAs, ensuring continuous improvement.
- ✔️ Guarantee compliance with IFRS / local GAAP / SOX / audit requirements.
- ✔️ Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closings with precision and insight.
- ✔️ Drive automation, innovation, and best practices to streamline operations. ⚙️
- ✔️ Partner with HR and Training teams to boost capability and promote career growth.
- ✔️ Step up as deputy to the Finance Operations Manager when required.
🎓 Your Profile
- Excellent written and spoken English (C2)
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or Business.
- Master’s (MBA, CA, CMA) is a plus! 🎓
- 5–7 years of experience in Finance & Accounting, ideally within SSC/GBS or corporate finance.
- 2+ years in a team leadership or supervisory role.
- Knowledge of multi-country, multi-currency environments is an advantage.
- Deep expertise across AP, AR, R2R, GL processes.
- Strong command of ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Workday).
- Advanced Excel and BI/reporting tool proficiency.
- Excellent communicator and natural leader who inspires others. 💬
- Analytical, proactive, and solutions-oriented — even under pressure.
🌟What We Offer
- ✨ A leadership role in a global organization making real impact.
- 📈 Opportunities to grow, innovate, and shape processes in a high-performing team.
- 🤝 A supportive and inclusive culture where your voice matters.
- 💡 Ongoing learning, development, and career advancement opportunities.
- 💙 A mission-driven environment where your work truly makes a difference.nce.
- 🚀 New and modern office.
- 🏡 Relocation support (if applicable).
- 🌍 We promote inter-company mobility to work at any of our sites around the world.
- 🏥 Private health insurance, free after six months
- 💶 Competitive wages (14 monthly payments per year)
- 🎉 Be part of a project with real impact
Location
Porto, Portugal
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- Job categories
- Finance
- Locations
- Porto
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Employment level
- First /Mid-Level Officials
- Accommodation available
- Yes
- Language
- English
- Make an appointment with our recruiter
- https://calendly.com/candidatecoordinators/meeting-candidate-coordinator?month=2024-09
Colleagues
Porto
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Honestidad y claridad
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Proactividad
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Relaciones a largo plazo
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