Howett Thorpe
Financial Controller
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Financial Controller - EMEA - Benefits
- Hybrid working pattern
- Private Healthcare
- Pension scheme
Financial Controller - EMEA - About The Role
You will need resilience, tenacity and a hands-on approach. This is not a role for someone who simply wants to oversee an established reporting process. We are looking for someone who enjoys unpicking complex accounting issues, reconciling historic balances and getting to the root cause of reporting discrepancies.
Working as part of the wider EMEA finance function, the successful candidate will take ownership of a significant revenue recognition reconciliation project. You will review revenue-related accounts and supporting data across multiple entities, identify inconsistencies between accounting records and underlying commercial information and determine the appropriate corrective action.
A key element of the assignment will be understanding how revenue has historically been recognised, particularly within a project-based environment, and ensuring that balances are supported, reconciled and accounted for correctly under the appropriate accounting standards.
You will work closely with stakeholders across Finance and the wider business to obtain supporting information, challenge existing treatments and resolve outstanding issues. Alongside correcting historic discrepancies, you will also help identify weaknesses within existing processes and recommend improvements that create greater accuracy and control around revenue reporting in the future.
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Key Responsibilities
- Take ownership of a detailed revenue recognition reconciliation project across multiple EMEA entities.
- Review and reconcile revenue-related balance sheet and P&L accounts, identifying historic discrepancies and unsupported balances.
- Investigate differences between revenue recognised within the financial accounts and underlying contracts, projects, billing information and supporting documentation.
- Review the application of Percentage of Completion (POC) accounting and other revenue recognition methodologies across relevant contracts and projects.
- Analyse historic accounting entries and transactions to understand how balances have arisen and determine the appropriate corrective treatment.
- Investigate complex revenue recognition queries and identify the root cause of accounting and reporting discrepancies.
- Prepare and post, or recommend, appropriate correcting journals and adjustments.
- Ensure revenue is recognised appropriately in accordance with IFRS and US GAAP requirements.
- Work closely with Finance and operational stakeholders to obtain and validate supporting information.
- Improve the quality and integrity of revenue reconciliations and supporting documentation.
- Identify weaknesses within existing revenue recognition processes and controls and recommend practical improvements.
- Establish clearer and more robust reconciliation processes to support accurate revenue reporting going forward.
- Support the wider finance team with revenue-related accounting queries arising during month-end and reporting cycles.
- Provide clear visibility to senior finance stakeholders regarding outstanding issues, findings, corrective actions and project progress.
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The Successful Financial Controller - EMEA Will Have
- Strong technical accounting knowledge, particularly in relation to revenue recognition.
- Strong knowledge of IFRS and US GAAP.
- Previous experience of Percentage of Completion (POC) accounting and accounting for project or contract-based revenue.
- Demonstrable experience of undertaking complex financial reconciliations and investigating historic accounting discrepancies.
- Experience working within a complex, multi-entity and international environment.
- The ability to work through significant volumes of financial data and supporting documentation to identify inconsistencies and root causes.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical and investigative skills.
- Excellent critical thinking skills with the confidence to challenge existing accounting treatments and processes.
- ACA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA or equivalent qualification.
- Significant accounting experience within complex finance environments.
- A track record of improving accounting processes, reconciliations and financial controls.
- The ability to work autonomously, manage competing priorities and deliver against a defined project timetable.
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