Group Finance Controller
£85-90K + Bonus
Fully Remote (once a month travel to head office in London)
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