Senior Finance Controller

Role purpose: The Senior Central Controller plays a key role in maintaining financial control by ensuring the integrity of financial reporting and compliance with accounting standards. This involves overseeing balance sheet controls, managing reconciliations process and ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting through Month end close. The role also focuses on driving process improvements by identifying opportunities for efficiency and effectiveness, implementing best practices, and leveraging key systems to enhance financial operations. Additionally, the Senior Central Controller leverages automation and digitization to streamline financial processes, reduce manual efforts, and improve data accuracy. This includes implementing and managing automation tools, utilizing digital technologies, and staying updated with industry trends to continuously enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of financial operations.

Experience & Qualification:

Professional Qualification: ACCA/ACA qualified (15+ years) or any other appropriate professional qualification in financial accounting and reporting of a global organization is preferred

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

• Balance Sheet Controls: Maintain appropriate financial control including overall responsibility of balance sheet control, ensuring every account is reconciled and reviewed and developing governance and controls across the balance sheet.
• Analysis and Insights: Understanding and interpretation of the financial accounting and reporting inputs and outputs of Group Enterprise.
• Identifying Early Warnings and Risks: Consideration of accounting for legal, contractual and constructive obligations and relationships.
• Complete MIS of all Balance Sheet Reconciliations: Produce and present high quality consolidated balance sheet information for presentation into key stakeholders.
• MIS of Controls: Participate in the operation and documentation of key controls over the balance sheet and profit and loss account.
• Managing, Verifying, Testing, and Coordinating with the Controls Team: Support in driving improvement in processes and controls with a focus on efficiency and effectiveness, leveraging key systems; ensure strong SOX-compliant control environment.
• Quarterly Financial Certification Work: Support the quarterly financial and non-financial certification process.
• Month End Close: Monitoring the Month End Close process and highlight any deviations and drive relevant improvements.
• Coordination with Senior Stakeholders, Group, Market Finance Teams, and HoFOs: You will play a key role in liaising with many stakeholders in the business including the Group Reporting teams, LCS, Finance business support teams, HoFOs and all CSO teams.
• Automation and Digitization: Implement and manage automation tools and digital solutions to streamline financial processes, enhance data accuracy, and improve efficiency. This includes leveraging robotic process automation (RPA) and other digital technologies to automate routine tasks and reporting.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for process improvements and implement changes to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of financial operations. This includes staying updated with the latest industry trends and best practices in finance automation and digitization.
• Data Management and Reporting: Ensure accurate and timely data management and reporting, utilizing advanced data analytics tools to generate insights and support decision-making processes.
• Compliance and Governance: Ensure compliance with all relevant financial regulations and standards and maintain strong governance practices across all financial activities.
• Data Controller: Aggregates and provides relevant, accurate and timely financial and management information to relevant stakeholders
• Leadership skills and experience in managing non reporting teams in a complex and changing/dynamic operating environment
• Act as a business consultant in terms of the financial accounting process
• KPI's / Process Performance management: Collection of KPI metrics and investigating the problem areas and presenting these reports to the Finance community (i. Hub level reports, ii. CFO Reports for the LM's)