Practice Lead Finance - Chartered Accountant
We are an emerging business consulting company providing services to industry-leading clientele in North America, Europe, and the Middle East.
We have a multidisciplinary service portfolio catering to 19 clients across 3 continents including market leaders in the Telecom, Healthcare, Insurance, Energy, Food, and Real Estate industries.
Job Description
About the Role:
We’re seeking a hands-on Project Manager – Finance to support a US-based clientoperating fuel stations and convenience stores. This is a working-manager role, not a purelysupervisory one: the successful candidate leads by doing — reviewing actual numbers,checking actual work, and staying close enough to the detail to catch problems before theclient does. The ideal candidate combines strong accounting expertise with a genuine senseof ownership: they don’t wait to be asked, they don’t stop at delegating, and they follow everytask through to completion rather than handing it off and assuming it’s done. This roleoversees the finance and reconciliation teams, reviews monthly and period-end closings andP&Ls, and serves as the primary liaison with the client.
Financial Oversight & Review:
- Oversee the day-to-day work of the finance team and reconciliation team, ensuringaccuracy, quality, and timeliness of deliverables — and personally review the underlyingwork, not just the status reports.
- Review monthly closing and period-end closing activities, ensuring all deadlines andreporting standards are met.
- Review P&ls, financial statements, and management reports before submission to theclient; nothing goes to the client without the PM’s own review.
- Ensure end-to-end accounting cycle activities (from transaction recording throughreconciliation, closing, and reporting) are executed correctly.
- Conduct regular, unannounced spot checks on team members’ work — transactions,reconciliations, and reports — rather than relying only on scheduled reviews, to catch errorsearly and keep quality consistent
Team Leadership & Facilitation:
- Lead as a hands-on, helping manager: work alongside the team on complex or urgent itemsrather than only assigning and monitoring from a distance.
- Facilitate and support the finance & reconciliation teams, removing roadblocks andproviding direct, working guidance on complex accounting matters.
- Plan and prioritize the team’s workload around closing calendars and client deadlines, andstep in personally when deadlines are at risk.
- Establish and monitor internal review controls to maintain consistent quality across alldeliverables, and be personally accountable for gaps when they occur.
Client Liaison & Communication:
- Act as the primary point of contact between the finance & reconciliation teams and the US based client, and take full personal ownership of every client request from the moment it’sreceived.
- When the client provides requirements, scope, or direction, take ownership of translatingthat into clear,actionable tasks for the team — rather than simply forwarding the request andwaiting for the team to interpret it.
- Lead client discussions and meetings, presenting financial results, closing status, andresolution plansclearly and confidently.
- Proactively communicate issues, risks, and updates to the client — before being asked and follow through on every commitment end-to-end, personally confirming completion ratherthan assuming ithappened.
Ownership & Accountability:
- Own outcomes, not just tasks: if a deliverable is late, wrong, or incomplete, the PM isaccountable for it regardless of who on the team produced it.
- Treat every client requirement as the PM’s own responsibility to see through to completion— closing the loop with the client only once the work has actually been verified as done.
- Maintain visibility into team output through regular, sometimes random, checks rather thantrusting status updates alone.
- Escalate proactively when something is at risk, rather than waiting for the client or seniormanagement to notice first.
Education & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field; ACCA, CA, CMA,or an equivalent qualification is strongly preferred.
- 5+ years of relevant experience in finance and accounting, with demonstrated experiencemanaging or leading senior teams.
- Proven experience as a team lead or project manager within a finance function, ideallyserving US-based clients
Preferred Skills
- Strong knowledge of the end-to-end accounting cycle, monthly and period-end closing,reconciliations, and P&ls review.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to deal directly andprofessionally with USbased clients — including delivering difficult updates without waiting tobe pushed.
- Strong leadership, stakeholder management, project management, and problem-solvingskills.
- A demonstrated ownership mentality: comfortable being hands-on, comfortable being heldaccountable for team output, and proactive about checking work rather than assuming it’scorrect
Shift Time:
- Monday to Friday
- Onsite role
- 7:00 PM to 4:00 AM Pakistan Standard Time (PKT)
- 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM Central Standard Time (CST
Requirements
Education & Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field; ACCA, CA, CMA,or an equivalent qualification is strongly preferred.
- 5+ years of relevant experience in finance and accounting, with demonstrated experiencemanaging or leading senior teams.
- Proven experience as a team lead or project manager within a finance function, ideallyserving US-based clients.
Preferred Skills:
- Strong knowledge of the end-to-end accounting cycle, monthly and period-end closing,reconciliations, and P&ls review.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to deal directly andprofessionally with USbased clients — including delivering difficult updates without waiting tobe pushed.
- Strong leadership, stakeholder management, project management, and problem-solvingskills.
- A demonstrated ownership mentality: comfortable being hands-on, comfortable being heldaccoun
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