PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A 6 MONTH FTC
Who Are We
Hansen Technologies (ASX: HSN) is a global software and services provider, serving energy, water/utilities, and telecommunications industries. With customers in 80+ countries, we foster collaboration across 26 global offices. From 5G advancements to renewable energy transitions, we empower customers to overcome challenges, innovate, and drive new business models.
At Hansen, we are also embedding AI enablement across our operations. From automating workflows and enhancing service delivery, to driving innovation in customer solutions, AI is shaping the next chapter of how we support our clients. With a focus on operational excellence and innovation, Hansen is using AI not just as a tool, but as a strategic enabler to deliver smarter, faster, and more resilient solutions for the future.
This is a 6 month FTC, hybrid role based in Hammersmith.
Why This Role Matters
The Financial Controller has primary responsibility for the financial reporting activities across designated legal entities. This includes month end, half year and year end internal reporting, monthly and annual statutory filing obligations ensuring compliance with IFRS and relevant local regulatory frameworks. This is a hands-on role and ensures robust operational accounting standards, ensures compliance with internal control frameworks, supports effective cashflow management,
drives stakeholder engagement and efficient external audit processes. As a partner to global finance teams, the Financial Controller enhances the accuracy, transparency, and integrity of financial reporting while proactively identifying risks, implementing.
What You’ll Do
Financial Reporting & Control
Drive the preparation and first-level review of month-end, half year and year end close reporting across multiple entities, providing insightful variance
commentary and ensuring timely, accurate delivery of internal and external submissions, including annual financial statements and other statutory filing obligations.
Demonstrate day-to-day operational knowledge of IFRS, applying technical standards in routine accounting transactions to ensure compliance and high-quality financial reporting.
Hands on responsibility for day‑to‑day general ledger operations, including preparing and posting journals, performing account reconciliations and investigating variances.
Hands on entity level budgeting and forecasting process with robust, insightful commentary that clearly articulates key drivers, trends, and risks.
Maintain strong internal controls, ensure adherence to control requirements and proactively address deficiencies.
Support accounts payable queries and drive general ledger accuracy including journal processing, reconciliations and month-end close activities.
Drive process standardisation and strengthen accounting policies.
Audit & Compliance
Act as primary lead for external audits, efficiently managing timelines, requests and stakeholder communication.
Multi-Entity & Multi-Currency Reporting
Hands-on ownership of timely and efficient reporting across multiple entities and currencies, including the intercompany recharge process, FX movements, and key reconciliations
Business Partnering
Collaborate with regional and local leaders to provide financial insights that drive cost discipline, working capital improvements and resource allocation. Treasury, Cash & Dividends
Forecast and manage liquidity across multiple entities and currencies.
Support group-level cash repatriation strategies, ensuring compliance with regulatory and tax requirements.
Problem-Solving & Continuous Improvement
Anticipate issues and risks across reporting processes.
Recommend and implement process improvements and automation.
Tax Compliance
Prepare accurate VAT returns, monthly filing, and supporting reconciliations.
Prepare monthly corporate income tax provision and quarterly advance
payments computation.
Support the global tax team with the annual tax filing process with exposure to transfer pricing requirements and supporting data.
Duties & responsibilities of your role may change from time to time to meet the needs & requirements of the business.
What You Bring
Professional Qualification: ACA / ACCA / CA (or equivalent).
Experience: 6–8 years post-qualification, solid hands-on experience in financial reporting or controllership roles.
Technical Skills: Working knowledge of IFRS, ability to proactively research and interpret technical guidance to ensure accurate and compliant day to day reporting.
Operational Accounting: Hands-on experience with month-end, half year and year end reporting, with strict adherence to reporting deadlines.
Controls & Compliance: Solid understanding of internal controls, with the ability to uphold and enforce compliance.
Problem-Solving: High-level issue resolution, risk anticipation and mitigation.
Organisation & Delivery: Multi-country experience with demonstrable ability to manage multiple deliverables across several entities.
Systems Expertise: Advanced Excel skills; experience with ERPs (e.g.Microsoft Dynamics 365) and reporting tools.
You’re someone who is:
Detail-oriented, with a strong commitment to accuracy and high standards.
Proactive and self-motivated, Able to hit the ground running from day one.
Analytical, with a practical solution driven approach.
Clear and confident in your communication, adapting your style to different audiences.
Collaborative, building effective relationships across teams.
Resilient and adaptable, comfortable managing competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-moving environment.
High integrity and professional judgement, maintaining confidentiality and upholding policies and controls.
Continuous improvement minded, always looking to streamline processes and strengthen controls.
Commercially aware, linking financial outcomes to business drivers for insightful, value-adding commentary.
Why Join Us?
At Hansen, you’ll be part of a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative global team. Our culture is built around values such as People and Family, Treat It Like It’s Your Own, Focused and Committed, and One United Team. We look for people who are curious, respectful, engaged, and keen to work across geographies with talented teams.
If you are passionate about talent sourcing, candidate engagement, and supporting a high-quality recruitment process, we’d love to hear from you.
Contact Us
If you possess the desired skills and enthusiasm, please “Apply Now” via the link or visit our career page.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Visit our website at hansencx.com for more information.
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By applying to this role, you consent to Hansen collecting, processing, and storing the information you provide for recruitment purposes. You also agree that your details may be securely retained in our talent database for future opportunities and reference in accordance with applicable data protection regulations.
Skills Required
- ACA, ACCA, CA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification
- 6–8 years of post-qualification experience
- Hands-on experience in financial reporting or controllership roles
- Working knowledge of IFRS and ability to interpret technical accounting guidance
- Hands-on experience with month-end, half-year, and year-end reporting
- Understanding of internal controls and compliance requirements
- Experience resolving issues and anticipating and mitigating risks
- Multi-country experience managing multiple deliverables across several entities
- Advanced Excel skills
- Experience with ERP systems such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 and reporting tools
- Strong communication, collaboration, organization, analytical, and problem-solving skills
What We Do
Hansen Technologies (ASX:HSN) is a global software and services provider to the energy, water/utilities and telecommunications industries. The company currently serves more than 600 customers in over 80 countries, supported by a collaborative and diverse team that embraces the hybrid way of working. For connection and collaboration, we have more than 36 offices and development centres located around the world. Within the communications industry, 5G represents the next new frontier for our customers – that unchartered territory to create opportunities and capitalise on new business models and resulting revenue streams. In the energy sector, we are in the midst of a transition. The move to renewables and self-generated energy changes the traditional commercial model. Today, our customers are no longer in the era of supplying basic commodity services - they are in era of providing new energy services and related experiences. We help our customers traverse these challenges and opportunities and realise the next new monetisable experiences. And that is why our mission is to provide industry-specific software products and expertise that enables our customers to easily capitalise on the commercial opportunities of the evolving energy, utilities and communications markets. We make this possible by providing highly reliable, mission-critical software and specific industry expertise to help our customers more easily innovate and sell new services and market offerings, comply with changing market regulation, and power new business models in areas such as emerging sustainable energy supply, IoT, and new next-generation connected services. We aim to achieve this through long term collaboration with our customers and partners and through a global workforce of skilled professionals that embrace challenges and are committed to positive outcomes for our company, employees, customers, and the planet
