Assistant Financial Controller

**OPENTEXT**
OpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.

**The Opportunity**:
The position is responsible for the strategic and tactical leadership of delivering on the Controllership team's core competencies, which is to insure organisation's financial statements reflect the highest level of integrity based on world-class accounting services provided by a global organization of accounting and finance professionals. It requires the management of a team.

**You are great at**:

- Responsible for management of WW Controllership deliverables within the specific entity cluster, focusing on local legal reporting activities.
- Support Controllership strategy and goals, and take active part in implementing it
- Maintain ownership for all work of the Controllership team and deliver consistent results.
- Ensure compliance with various statutes and control parameters. Ability to identify risks and address the same with mitigating controls.
- Proactively partner with the tax team and outsource tax partner.
- Drive engagement with key partners to maintain regular communication and continuously improve processes and controls
- Increase efficiencies by standardizing and continually improving related processes, controls, and reports.
- Maintain oversight on tax compliance including finalization of tax provision, current and deferred, transfer pricing finalization and filing of tax returns in consultation with our tax outsourced partner and tax team.
- Coordination of audit work in the team and direct cooperation with auditors on specific activities
- Maintain oversignt on annual statutory balance sheet and profit and loss analytical review, including reconciliation of management vs. statutory accounting and enable executive summary to directors on the annual results.
- Hire and retain talent; build high-performing and knowledgeable workforce
- Improve and maintain high-performance team environment and skill level through engagement, training/documentation, and providing leadership and development opportunities.
- Consult with controllers to drive and influence strategic decision-making within a broad scope (e.g., short and long-term business planning, balancing risk, etc.)
- Proactively drive process improvement and policy development initiatives that impact the team and work
- Actively review, analyze, and manage the key controls within the domain of responsibility to ensure compliance with legal and accounting requirements (e.g., Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Standards of Business Conduct (SBC), and Accounting Financial Manual (AFM), Local Country legislation)
- Provide leadership during implementation of controllership wide programs and processes

**What it takes**:

- Qualified Chartered Accountant with 5+ years post qualification experience in good MNC/large reputed Indian business houses. Ability to work in the ever changing world of technology led companies.
- Proven experience in team management.
- Strong Understanding of accounting and finance concepts. Hands on experience on finance systems (Netsuite),
- Experience in SoX Controls and reporting.
- Demonstrated track record in successful financial management
- Ability to manage a fast moving, market-orientated and dynamic work environment
- International experience is an advantage
- Excellent people management skills, including managing across several countries
- Strong process improvement and change-management skills required
- Strong business and finance acumen,
- Self-motivated, independent, with excellent planning, multi-tasking and prioritization skills
- Strong ethics and transparency in dealings with team and all stakeholders
- Exposure to IFRS & M&A is a must.