Finance
There’s more to this team than number crunching! They power daily operations across the business, using their understanding of our performance parameters and trends to ensure appropriate measures are in place to facilitate success. Finance team also cares about controlling and banking processes to ensure that our customers can get seamless finance services.
Our strategy is to create a world-class, technology-enabled global financial organisation. Our investments in digital are allowing us to improve the experience of our customers when they interact with us.
There are a few major areas within our Finance function (serving every country within the IPF Digital):
Commercial Finance & Cost Optimisation
Commercial Finance provides decision support for finance management related to the plan, results reporting, costs, and forecasting; provides support to our country teams and interacts with different business areas to review actual results and variances to budgets and forecast teams in areas of reporting, financial tools, and systems, managing input templates and consolidating region inputs for review with management.
Typical roles: Senior Cost & Finance Manager, Financial Modelling Manager, FP&A Manager, Finance Business Partner.
Control Finance
The Control Finance team is responsible for preparing and working on financial plans for IPF Digital that incorporate key business drivers and ad hoc issues impacting the business. The team is accountable for monitoring the integrity of the financial processes across IPF Digital and putting in place any remedial action required. Daily team prepares IPF Digital’s consolidated financial information for internal and external stakeholders and ensures that all output is high quality, robust, and in compliance with applicable accounting standards, company law, and other regulatory requirements.
Typical roles: Financial Reporting Coordinator, Senior Controlling & Reporting Manager, Bank & Cash Manager, Banking Specialist, Chief Accountant, Accounting Lead, Independent Accountant, Junior FP&A Analyst
Data Analytics
Are those data guys playing with “big data”, complex math, cool code, and fancy visualizations for fun?
Hmm probably… :) The chance is that we do have fun while working but more importantly we are obsessed with improving things, solving hard problems that are worth solving and making a real impact. What we usually do in our team:
-Collecting strategic data and designing, engineering, and documenting complex data infrastructures.
-Using data modeling techniques to bring cohesion to unstructured and semi-structured data.
-Conducting quantitative analysis to obtain insights, developing these into workable solutions, and then following these through to successful delivery (while measuring outcomes).
-Devising and coding novel algorithms from scratch, to help manage the data analytics and machine learning processes.
Working closely with various teams (from -DevOps to Senior Management) to identify problems and devise data-driven solutions to these problems.
Typical roles: BI & Modelling Manager, Data Modelling Expert, Data Analyst
Tax
TAX team cares about the tax affairs of the IPF Digital across a number of markets in Europe, Australia, and Latin America (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Australia and Mexico). The main role of this team is to monitor tax developments across our markets to identify potential risks and opportunities, put forward proposals as appropriate to address risks or take advantage of opportunities, and implement these proposals as required. Tax team also manages specific tax projects, including projects to mitigate specific tax risks or optimise tax efficiency, working with finance colleagues and external advisors, and reviewing selected tax calculations and/or returns prepared by the Financial Controllers.
Typical roles: Tax Expert, Tax Manager
Procurement
This team works with the business to streamline the business processes and challenge contractual arrangements to ensure continuous relative cost improvements, including promoting cost awareness, inspiring, and educating employees on cost optimisation.
As a part of the above the team provides development and execution of the procurement at the global level in IPF Digital, develops and enhances processes and controls over procurement, as well as leads the delivery of innovative procurement ideas and best practice solutions.
Typical roles: Procurement Lead
Audit
The primary role of this team is to help decision makers protect organizational assets and reputations, as well as to support operational sustainability. Audit Team contributes to the facilitation of the on-going development of risk management and governance processes at IPF Digital. It helps us accomplish our objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, internal control and governance processes.
Typical roles: Internal Auditor, Internal Audit Manager.