Business Unit Controller

Job Posting Title
Business Unit Controller - TR

Being a business unit controller team member, you will be required to lead end-to-end statutory accounting and tax compliance for assigned Thomson Reuters legal entities, ensuring SOX controls and reporting accuracy. Oversee month-end close, balance sheet/P&L reviews, and coordinate with internal teams, auditors, and outsourced providers to meet all filing deadlines. Support audits, tax provisioning, transfer pricing, and entity restructurings/M&A, delivering compliant operations within budget.

About The Role
The jobholder will be responsible for:

• Managing the accounting and tax compliance activities of Thomson Reuters' entities as assigned.
• Acting as a key contact with outsourced professional accounting and compliance service providers, tax agents and auditors.
• Delivering excellent tax compliance and statutory compliance operations, and financial accounting and control oversight of all assigned Thomson Reuters legal entities.

The jobholder is expected to have the ability, eagerness and drive to work within a wide network of colleagues, departments and outsourced services in order to deliver a world-class accounting and compliance operation.

About You:

• Chartered Accounting Professional or a candidate with a minimum of 4 years of accounting experience
• Stewardship and review of accounts of assigned entities for both group and local financial reporting compliance requirements.
• Maintenance of key SOX controls and SOX evidentiary requirements.
• Ensure appropriateness of controls for internal and external compliance.
• Monthly balance sheet and P&L reviews.
• Monitor the month-end close process for assigned entities and ensure that critical financial processes and reconciliation obligations are met.
• Manage the relationship with departments of Global and Regional Tax, Business Finance, External Reporting, Internal Audit, Treasury, Finance Operations, Divisional Business Units, and external statutory auditors and outsourced professional service providers.
• Manage all operational compliance requirements for assigned entities, including:
• Oversight and review of the preparation and delivery of statutory accounts and tax returns by outsourced professional service providers;
• internal tax reporting;
• supporting tax audits, transfer pricing reviews, tax risk assessments, and implementation of tax strategies;
• Working with external statutory auditors to deliver the statutory audit of assigned entities on-time; and
• Ensure all filing and reporting deadlines are met.
• Support company secretarial compliance requirements and work with external corporate secretarial agencies or service providers as and where required.
• Plan for and support all monthly, quarterly and year-end accounting and internal reporting requirements, including tax provisioning and group reporting.
• Take an active role in legal entity (or divisional) restructuring projects and acquisition or divestiture projects for the sub-region and ensure that entities and businesses either conform with or are integrated into Thomson Reuters accounting and finance controls and processes.
• Plan for and deliver all operational requirements of assigned entities within cost budgets.

What's in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow's challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us
Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

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