Description

My client is an international management consultancy and are looking for a Group Finance 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:

• ACCA qualified or equivalent
• Familiar with IFRS
• Prior experience with Microsoft Dynamics
• Prior experience managing multiple legal entities, including understanding of FX revaluations and translations
• Prior experience with transfer pricing practices
• Ability to work in a diverse international team
• Lead a team of finance professionals across 7 jurisdictions (UK, Thailand, India, Japan, Jersey, Canada and Australia)
• Detailed oriented
• Self motivated and curious
• Ambitious