Description
Group Financial Controller
£90k-100k + Bonus
2 days in the office (Central London)
Halliday Marx have exclusively partnered with an international Education business who are looking for a Group Financial Controller to join the team.
Duties
- Oversee Group consolidation and preparation of monthly and annual financial statements across multiple legal entities globally, including commentary on key variances.
- Manage group audit and coordinate all local audits.
- Manage a global team of finance professionals focused on local statutory accounting and compliance.
- Work with relevant external parties such as tax consultants, tax authorities and auditors.
- Lead process simplification and optimisation through greater reliance on systems.
- This role will require creation of global accounting practices and procedures to bring all legal entities to one accounting standard.
- This role will also drive continuous improvement of relevant accounting and operational finance processes to shorten the monthly closing cycle and streamline reporting.
- Monthly consolidation and preparation of financial statements, including full P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow.
- Coordinate monthly closing activities across all legal entities to achieve 3 day close.
- Prepare monthly analysis of results, commenting on key variances against prior periods and Budgets.
- Annual statutory audit, including coordination of all local audits.
- Management of IFRS16 (leases) accounting for all legal entities.
- Oversee calculation of Transfer Pricing revenue and cost for all legal entities.
- Oversee monthly payroll posting and reconciliation for all legal entities.
- Support wider business with relevant process changes such as billing and collection practices.
Requirements:
- 3 years + post qualified in either the ACA/ACCA
- Experienced managing staff within industry
- Prior experience managing multiple legal entities
- Transfer pricing experience
