Description
Job Summary:
A finance professional to manage the entire financial cycle, design controls, ensure tax and documentary compliance, and provide managerial information.
Key Highlights:
1. Manage the entire financial cycle and ensure tax compliance.
2. Design and implement auditable financial controls.
3. Provide managerial information and pursue continuous process improvement.
**RESPONSIBILITIES**
* **Manage the entire financial cycle** — ensuring accurate entries, adherence to deadlines, and timely bank reconciliations.
* **Serve as the liaison with outsourced accounting**, ensuring documents, information, and obligations are delivered complete and on time, and verifying deliverables—not merely archiving them.
* **Design and implement financial controls**, replacing ad-hoc controls with documented processes, defined routines, and audit-ready procedures.
* **Ensure tax and documentary compliance**, reviewing incoming and outgoing invoices, tax forms, and payments, and flagging inconsistencies before they become liabilities.
* **Maintain administrative relationships with suppliers and installation service providers**, aligning on purchase orders, delivery timelines, commercial terms, and payments.
* **Provide managerial information to partners**, delivering cash flow statements, account positions, and cost analysis on a fixed periodic basis.
**Pursue continuous process improvement**, proposing automations and enhancements that reduce rework and month-end closing time—without disrupting existing effective processes.
**ACTIVITIES**
* Record and classify incoming and outgoing financial transactions.
* Execute accounts payable routine, monitoring due dates, payment terms, and supporting documentation.
* Execute accounts receivable routine, tracking collections and conducting administrative follow-ups.
* Perform daily bank reconciliation and investigate discrepancies.
* Review incoming and outgoing invoices, verifying amounts, taxes, and registration data.
* Organize and archive fiscal and financial documentation in a standardized digital structure.
* Submit monthly closing information and documents to the outsourced accounting firm within the agreed deadline.
* Review tax forms, obligations, and accounting deliverables received prior to payment.
* Maintain and update spreadsheets and management systems with current information.
* Prepare the monthly cash flow and financial position report for partners.
* Request quotations, verify purchase orders, and align timelines with suppliers and service providers.
* Support store administrative routines that impact the financial cycle.
**Education**
* Completed high school — mandatory.
* Technical course or ongoing/completed undergraduate degree in Administration, Accounting, Financial Management, or related fields — preferred.
**Experience**
* Minimum of 2 years in financial operations — accounts payable and receivable, bank reconciliation, and fiscal document review.
* Experience in small or medium-sized enterprises where the role is performed autonomously without dedicated support staff — highly preferred.
* Prior experience liaising with outsourced accounting firms — a significant advantage.
* Experience participating in the organization or implementation of a financial control or system previously absent — a decisive advantage.
**Hard Skills**
* Intermediate to advanced Excel: VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, PivotTables, filters, and conditional formatting.
* ERP systems for small retail businesses — Bling, Tiny, Omie, Conta Azul, or equivalent.
* Issuance, reading, and verification of electronic fiscal documents.
* Corporate internet banking and statement reconciliation.
* Basic knowledge of Simples Nacional taxation applicable to retail trade — DAS, tax forms, and withholdings.
* Cloud-based document management tools — Google Drive or OneDrive.
**Digital and AI Competencies**
* Use of automation or AI for transaction categorization and classification.
* Automated reading of invoices and bank statements (OCR applied to reconciliation).
* Development of simple integration routines among spreadsheets, ERP, and banks.
* Critical use of AI assistants for drafting and verification — with mandatory human validation.