The Global Statutory Controllership Team is looking for a highly motivated, dynamic finance professional to join our Controllership function. This team is focused on statutory and tax governance for a group of our Legal Entities, effective termination of entities, as well as leading key strategic projects and initiatives from a statutory, tax and legal entity perspective.
Primary Job Responsibilities:
The Statutory and Tax Controller is accountable for the financial oversight and management of Financial Close, External Audit and Statutory Financial Statements for several legal entities and geographies across the globe.
This role is responsible for:
- Statutory Accounting Integrity and Accuracy:
- Driving reporting excellence supporting annual financial statements, audit coordination, and US GAAP legal entity review for various countries.
- Support onboarding of new entities into standard model and processes.
Tax Compliance & Advisory:
- Ensure timely, accurate tax filings and payments in conjunction with local providers.
- Support of local tax audit audits in conjunction with local providers and the International Tax Team.
- Legal Entity Governance:
- Effectively manage closure of statutory entities and ensure finance readiness of legal entities in country.
Stakeholder Management
- Manage relationships with external auditors and advisors for statutory accounting and tax compliance.
- Engagement with Corporate Accounting, Treasury and Legal Teams on termination process for applicable entities.
- Maintain ongoing relationships with local tax authorities and government agencies (managed through local providers).
- Partnership across global team
Process Excellence & Automation:
- Engage with our outsourced finance team (Accenture, EY, and others) to enhance global processes, stop doing, identify automation opportunities and implement new accounting standards.
- Annually review scope of work and desk top procedures for shared service providers. Identify opportunities to standardize and automate processes.
Other Statutory Reporting and Advisory
- Cash Management and forecasting.
- Review and approval of balance sheet reconciliations.
- Support of people related queries for entities with headcount (volume expected to be low) engaging with Accenture, HR and OnePayroll Teams.
- Land global and local projects, with proper statutory accounting infrastructure and registration, and in compliance with local tax regulations & global processes. Provide support for the local business operations on the implementation of these projects.
- Responsible for other government reporting obligations (e.g. statistical surveys, data queries, bank reporting, inspections, etc).
Job Qualifications:
- Qualified ACA / ACCA / CIMA
- Minimum 4-5 years' finance and accounting experience in a large organization. Strong technical working knowledge of IFRS and US GAAP
- Experience preparing and reviewing Annual Financial Statements and managing external audits.
- Experience reviewing tax computations and filings
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience exercising mature judgment and best practices
- Excellent oral and written communication and analytical skills; ability to communicate complex analysis in a clear, simple way
- Strong partnering capabilities with proven ability to influence and collaborate across groups
- Proven success managing and prioritizing multiple projects across a fast-paced and continually changing environment
- Highly organized, self-motivated and autonomous with ability to quickly identify what needs to be accomplished and resourcefulness to accomplish
- Experience working with outsource providers
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
- Multinational experience would be good, otherwise they can come from any industry background
- Auditor background would be preferable; tax experience/certification would be a bonus
- Spanish speaker
