Finance Manager - Mexico

Seniority: Manager · Location: Mexico · Employment type: Full-time

About the company

Our client is a global provider of integrated solutions for printing and packaging businesses. Its products and services support printing and packaging companies worldwide through a combination of specialized expertise, process solutions, equipment, and customer support. With an established international presence and a strong position in its sector, the company offers the opportunity to contribute to a globally connected business serving diverse customers.

About the role

As Finance Manager, you will own the full finance and accounting function for the Mexican entity, ensuring accurate, timely, compliant, and decision-ready financial information. You will lead the local finance team and work closely with Group Accounting, Group Treasury, HR, Legal, Supply Chain, external auditors, tax advisors, and customs brokers. The role combines hands-on financial leadership with strategic partnership across reporting, tax, treasury, controls, operations, and import-related finance.

What you'll do

• Own complete and accurate bookkeeping for the Mexican entity in accordance with Mexican NIF, IFRS, tax accounting rules, and company accounting policies.
• Lead month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities and deliver the IFRS reporting package within Group deadlines.
• Review and approve journal entries, accounting batches, accruals, provisions, and account-level balance sheet reconciliations.
• Ensure appropriate accounting for leases, foreign exchange, inventory, fixed assets, provisions, intercompany transactions, and other complex items.
• Coordinate annual statutory audits, internal audit support, and Group audit requests with external auditors and internal stakeholders.
• Maintain the corporate compliance calendar and ensure timely, accurate monthly and annual filings for IVA, ISR, withholding taxes, informative returns, electronic accounting submissions, and other applicable obligations.
• Ensure compliance with CFDI electronic invoicing requirements and maintain digital certificates required for CFDI issuance and SAT interactions.
• Manage tax credits, recoverable balances, refunds, and compensation processes, and obtain required tax compliance certificates.
• Support transfer pricing compliance, documentation, and reporting in coordination with external advisors.
• Lead responses to tax audits, reviews, and information requests from SAT and other governmental authorities.
• Coordinate payroll-related compliance with HR and payroll providers, including ISR, IMSS, INFONAVIT, and ISN obligations.
• Lead, develop, and motivate the local accounting and finance team; establish clear roles, objectives, priorities, deadlines, and development plans.
• Build team capability in IFRS, Mexican NIF, tax, treasury, and compliance, with clear backup coverage for critical activities.
• Ensure sound segregation of duties, authorization matrices, ERP approval workflows, and compliance with corporate signature authority rules.
• Act as a counterpart for Sales and other functions, advising on the financial and legal implications of intended actions.
• Drive process improvement, standardization, documentation, and automation across local finance operations.
• Partner with Group Accounting on close calendars, reporting packages, intercompany reconciliations, accounting policy implementation, and finance projects.
• Partner with Group Treasury on cash flow forecasting, liquidity, foreign exchange exposure, intercompany funding, banking relationships, and treasury controls.
• Act as the primary Mexico contact for Group finance topics, audits, banking, insurance, and cross-functional finance initiatives.
• Approve banking transactions and bank account setups in accordance with company policies and delegated authority.
• Oversee manual payments for taxes, payroll, insurance, memberships, licenses, and other statutory obligations.
• Review employee expense reports, reimbursements, travel advances, and settlements through SAP Concur or a comparable platform.
• Ensure accurate period-end accruals and coordinate timely resolution of accounts payable exceptions.
• Oversee customer invoicing, collections, cash application, dunning, and resolution of overdue balances.
• Maintain appropriate customer master data, onboarding controls, credit limits, and credit risk assessments.
• Monitor DSO, overdue ratios, bad debt exposure, and customer financing arrangements, and agree corrective actions with Treasury and the business.
• Manage credit notes, debit notes, refunds, and related accounting adjustments.
• Oversee inventory accounting, cost accounting close, consignment inventory, intercompany movements, and provisions for slow-moving, obsolete, and excess inventory.
• Coordinate and monitor physical inventory and fixed asset counts from a finance and control perspective.
• Oversee landed cost calculations, freight, duties, customs charges, import-related foreign exchange transactions, and inventory valuation.
• Ensure financial documentation and controls support compliant customs clearance, import declarations, permits, deposits, duties, taxes, and recoveries.
• Partner with Supply Chain, customs brokers, and forwarders to reduce delays, cost leakage, and compliance risk.
• Manage local insurance policies in coordination with Corporate Treasury and global insurance coverage.
• Manage lease agreements for offices, warehouses, and other facilities.
• Coordinate finance-related legal and regulatory matters with internal and external legal counsel.
• Maintain audit-ready documentation and escalate significant compliance, control, liquidity, or reporting risks to the CFO and Group stakeholders.

Must-have

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• At least 10 years of progressive experience in Accounting, Tax, Treasury, and Financial Operations.
• At least 3–5 years of people leadership experience managing accounting and finance teams.
• Experience in multinational companies operating under corporate reporting requirements.
• Demonstrated responsibility for statutory and IFRS close, external audits, tax compliance, accounts payable, accounts receivable, treasury, cost, and inventory accounting.
• Experience with import, customs, logistics finance, and external tax advisors in Mexico.
• Strong knowledge of Mexican accounting regulations, including NIF, and IFRS.
• Solid understanding of Mexican tax regulations, including IVA, ISR, withholding taxes, CFDI requirements, and interactions with SAT.
• Experience with transfer pricing compliance and documentation requirements.
• Experience with month-end and year-end close processes.
• Strong balance sheet reconciliation and financial statement review skills.
• Knowledge of fixed asset accounting, inventory accounting, and cost accounting principles.
• Understanding of internal controls and corporate governance requirements.
• Advanced ERP experience in SAP, particularly FI and CO.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience with electronic banking platforms and treasury management processes.
• Advanced business English proficiency, approximately C1 level under the CEFR framework.
• Native Spanish proficiency.
• Strategic and hands-on finance leadership with strong analytical judgment and attention to detail.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including the confidence to explain financial risks and decisions to stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to prioritize competing demands, lead under tight deadlines, and maintain quality during close and compliance cycles.
• Collaborative, team-oriented leadership style with strong coaching and relationship-building skills.
• Practical, creative problem-solving and a continuous-improvement mindset.

Nice-to-have

• A Master’s degree.
• A professional accounting or finance certification, such as CPA, ACCA, CIMA, or an equivalent local professional qualification.
• Experience with SAP Concur or a comparable expense management platform.

What's offered

• The opportunity to own the finance and accounting function for a Mexican entity within a globally connected business.
• A high-impact leadership role spanning financial reporting, tax, treasury, compliance, operations, import, logistics, customs, and working capital.
• International exposure through close collaboration with Group Accounting, Group Treasury, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• The opportunity to lead and develop a local finance team.
• The chance to drive process improvement, standardization, documentation, and automation across finance operations.
• A role with direct visibility into business decisions, financial risks, and operational performance.

Hiring process

• Intro call with our recruitment team
• Interview(s) with the hiring team
• Offer