Regional Financial Controller

Global Advertising Business • Surrey, ENG, United Kingdom • 1d ago

Job Description

Ambitious, Global Advertising business based in Surrey are looking for a talented Regional Financial Controller to join their Group finance team. Having recently been acquired by an industry leading Marketing Group they are going through an exciting but challenging global finance transformation and this role will play an integral part in managing the financial functions of the region and organisation through this process.

Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, the primary responsibility for the Regional Financial Controller is to deliver for regional scope, the view of all legal entity’s accounting figures, in respect of compliance and accounting standards.

Regional Financial Controller - Responsibilities:

Review/validate Month End Closing sign-off and provide results/variance analysis for assigned legal entity/region (currently APAC)
Validate for your entities/regions all payroll costs, net revenue, P&L, balance sheet and working capital.
Proactively ensure that all month end deliverables are met in accordance with the reporting timetable.
Report on balance sheet, working capital variance and provide detailed review/analysis of accruals, deferred income, and other key balance sheet accounts.
Support Finance transformation initiatives to deliver process standardisation/systemisation of revenue recognition, billing, reporting, and month end close process.
Validate monthly/quarterly reconciliation of all balance sheet accounts and ensure proper documentation and follow up of all accounts based on risk-based procedure including using Sage and FloQast.
Support AP, AR, GL & FM colleagues with improving weekly/monthly cash forecasting processes and review/validate/sign off on the production of accurate forecasts for all entities/regions.
Help drive to align global trial balances to ensure all GL account/cost centre codes are used for the same nature of activities.
Lead overseas audits within regional scope.

Regional Financial Controller - Requirements:

Excellent knowledge of accounting, management principles and R2R procedures.
Qualified Accountant (ACA. ACCA, CIMA, CPA or equivalents).
Proficiency with computers, especially business solutions and ERP systems.
Strong planning and problem-solving skills.
Ability to multi-task and manage priorities effectively in a fast-paced environment, while exhibiting exceptional attention to detail and continuously driving process improvements.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to effectively communicate accounting results to both accounting and non-accounting customers at all levels of the organisation.