* Banking Institution
* A good oportunity for your professional growth
About Our Client
The Head of Finance is responsible for overseeing Accounting, Controlling, and Treasury, ensuring financial integrity, liquidity management, and risk mitigation. This role includes managing the consolidated accounting system, ensuring regulatory compliance, overseeing financial reporting, and leading tax administration and financial statement preparation.
In Accounting, the Head oversees the accounting system and tax administration of the bank, ensuring the correctness and timely deliver of reports to the banking supervisory authority and tax authorities, and administrates all tax issues and ensure timely payments and preparation of the tax declaration, monitoring legal and regulatory developments from an accounting point of view and ensures timely updates of policy and procedures accordingly.
In Controlling, the Head oversees financial planning and analysis, budget management, resource allocation, and performance tracking through KPIs and variance analysis, providing strategic insights to optimize costs and profitability, as well as ensuring daily/monthly/quarterly reporting of costs and performance figures and analytics (including actual/planned comparison and forecasts)..
In Treasury, the Head proactively develops and executes the Treasury strategy, ensuring efficient cash and liquidity management, risk mitigation, and oversight of liquidity, currency positions, interest rates, and loan pricing, with execution support from an external provider.
As a strategic leader, the Head of Finance ensures cross-departmental alignment, drives continuous improvement, and maintains compliance with financial regulations.
Job Description
Manages the accounting system, ensuring regulatory compliance and reporting to local regulators, shareholders, and internal departments;
Translates business strategies into objectives and guidelines for the department;
Leads and supervises staff and external providers, setting goals, monitoring performance, and providing feedback;
Oversees resource allocation, budget planning, and departmental activities;
Oversees cash flow, liquidity, foreign exchange, interest rates, loan pricing, and bond & collateral management strategy;
Monitors legal and regulatory developments from a controlling point of view;
Translates business strategies into clear objectives and guidelines for the department;
Manages relationships with financial institutions and investors.
The Successful Applicant
Bachelor's degree in business administration, Accounting, Economy or equivalent;
MBA or master in Finance or related areas;
Experience with bank accounting, controlling and treasury;
Advanced knowledge about regulatory and legal environment (in particular Portuguese banking legislation, CRR, CRD VI, Portuguese Commercial Code, Tax, VAT);
Comprehensive knowledge of asset-side banking products, especially as credit operations and liabilities side (funding products);
Comprehensive knowledge of risk management and asset-liabilities management;
Accounting Principles;
Treasury products and market principles.
What's On Offer
A good oportunity for your professional growth
Contact: Francisco Emauz Ribeiro
Quote job ref: JN-032025-6695942
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