Legal Entity Controller

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What it asks for · 9

• Professional accountancy qualification (CA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) with 9+ years of progressive accounting experience, including significant controllership exposure
• Deep hands-on experience with monthly and year-end close, statutory financial statement preparation, external audits, regulatory filings, and variance analysis
• Strong working knowledge of US GAAP and IFRS, and experience applying local GAAP and converging treatments across frameworks
• Demonstrated experience owning internal control programs (SOX or similar) and executing control design and remediation
• Track record of delivering automation or process simplification at the entity level (ERP, reconciliation tooling, reporting pipeline improvements)
• Strong technical and problem-solving skills, advanced Excel ability, and experience with financial systems (e.g., Oracle, Workiva, Blackline, or similar). Familiarity with SQL and BI tools or scripting is a plus.
• Excellent stakeholder management — ability to partner with Tax, Treasury, Legal, FP&A, and regional teams to drive timely, risk-mitigated outcomes
• High integrity, sound professional judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to operate under tight deadlines
• Experience leading or mentoring junior finance professionals and managing external advisors or service providers

Also a plus

• Knowledge of (or experience in) the technology or payments industry
• Oracle suite
• Hubble and SQL

What the job covers

• End-to-end controllership for assigned legal entity(ies), including financial close, statutory reporting, audit readiness, regulatory filings, and adoption with the board or local management
• Preparation and sign-off of statutory financial statements and coordination of statutory adoption processes with local boards and directors and external advisors
• Manage external auditors and local service providers, setting scope, driving timelines, resolving findings, and maintaining high-quality documentation for audits, reviews, and regulatory inspections
• Oversee monthly, quarterly, and year-end close, leading complex journal entries, reconciliations, technical accounting assessments, variance analysis, and executive reporting packages
• Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of entity-level accounting policies and internal control frameworks, and own SOX and internal control compliance and remediation where applicable
• Serve as the primary business partner to Tax, Treasury, Legal, FP&A, and regional finance teams on transactions and policy changes that affect the entity's accounting, tax, and regulatory outcomes
• Identify, prioritize, and deliver process improvements and automation initiatives that materially increase accuracy, speed, or scalability of entity accounting (RPA, ERP configuration, reporting pipelines, templates, or tooling)
• Resolve technical accounting questions and apply US GAAP, IFRS, and local GAAP judgment — escalate to central technical accounting teams when needed with well-formed recommendations
• Provide coaching and mentorship to more junior accounting teammates, and lead cross-functional projects and working groups to improve operating models
• Act as a subject-matter expert for entity-level reporting requests, internal and external audits, regulatory inquiries, and management escalations

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• accounting8×
• experience7×
• external5×
• local5×
• regulatory5×
• reporting5×
• audits4×
• entity4×
• financial4×
• gaap4×
• statutory4×
• internal control3×
• management3×
• professional3×
• technical accounting3×
• adoption2×

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