Finance Cluster Controller

Job Title

Finance Cluster Controller

Job Description Summary

The role is responsible for:
- Leading all aspects of Finance Controllership for legal entities and branches registered in Northern Europe.
- Ensuring local finance compliance requirements and Global and Regional policies and processes including revenue recognition are met
- Providing support to Northern Europe Controllership on intercompany and branch issues.

Job Description

Required skills for filling the position:

• Experience in managing month end close process within a BPO / Shared service model for multiple EMEA Countries
• Experience leading local statutory audits and statutory accounts process across multiple EMEA countries – audit background and SOX control experience preferred
• Financial management experience with a proven ability to translate financial data into commercial language
• knowledge of major ERP systems and HFM, Workday strongly preferred and Essbase also useful
• Effective communication skills across a range of seniority levels and countries to Finance & non-Finance staff professional services business
• Post accounting qualification experience >10y.
• >10y post qualification Controllership leadership experience across multiple countries and within a US listed SOX control environment
• Experience of project & contract accounting
• Experience leading financial compliance and change in US GAAP & local GAAP environments and IFRS strongly preferred
• Demonstrable flexibility to meet competing and evolving business needs and drive for results
• Demonstrate Personal and Team leadership of remotely located Teams
• Demonstrate building and maintaining trusting relationships
• Critical thinker & problem solver
• Resilient change driver and adopter
• Ability to develop strong stakeholder relationships in a complex environment
• Fluent in both written and spoken English and preferably one other relevant language

Main responsibilities:

• Responsible for accurate, timely, monthly closing of the books (in US GAAP) all in accordance with Global & EMEA deadlines, policies and compliance requirements,
• Responsible for ensuring audited accounts are filed on time and that external audits are planned, efficient and co-ordinated with stakeholders minimising audit costs and over-runs
• Responsible for ensuring local statutory accounts are prepared, reviewed and filed by the relevant filing deadline and meet relevant reporting requirements.
• Responsible for ensuring adequate governance is in place to identify, prioritise and remediate risk in the countries and input to the quarterly NE Controllership risk review
• Support the timely and accurate completion and submission by others of the SOX 302 sub-certifications
• Responsible for ensuring revenue recognition and CECL policies are understood and correctly applied within Responsible for reviewing bad debt provisions ensuring they are adequate and in line with policy
• Support working capital optimisation across countries through meaningful metrics and finance operational support for aged debt reduction, achievement of DSO targets, prompt invoicing, cash collection & allocation and resolution of credit balances
• Responsible for ensuring regulatory returns (including CIT, VAT, ECSL, other returns and business surveys) are adequately reviewed and submitted on time whether prepared internally or by service providers
• Support transfer pricing studies and external audits by tax authorities
• Support all stages of M&A activity including due diligence and post-acquisition integration
• Collaborate with stakeholders to optimize legal entity structures and minimize compliance cost
• Lead the investigation and remediation of negative equity situations.

INCO: “Cushman & Wakefield”