Hybrid | 7 months | Multinational Tech Company
Our client is looking for a highly motivated, dynamix finance professional to join their Controllership team. The team is focused on statutory and tax governance for a group of their companies legal entities, effective termination of entities, as well as leading key strategic projects and initiatives from a statutory, tax, and legal entity perspective.
Responsibilities:
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 models 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 International Tax Team.
Legal Entity Governance:
- Effectively manage closure of statutory entities and ensure finance readiness of legal entities in the 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 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 Payroll 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.
- 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
