Group Financial Controller

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

Halliday Marx have exclusively partnered with 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 optimization 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 a 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 the wider business with relevant process changes such as billing and collection practices.