Financial Controller (Process & Control)

Join our team as a Financial Controller (Process & Control) and play a key role in modernizing and scaling our global finance function. You will lead initiatives to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and scalability of finance through process redesign, technology enablement, data governance, and operational excellence. This role requires a strong background in finance operations, systems, data, and business performance. You will be responsible for transforming core finance processes, improving controls, implementing enabling technologies, and ensuring that transformation initiatives deliver measurable and sustainable business value.

Responsibilities

• Assister à la conception et à la mise en œuvre du modèle opérationnel cible des finances, en fournissant des recommandations pour soutenir la conception globale.
• Diriger les projets de systèmes financiers et d'automatisation, de la définition des exigences à la mise en œuvre et à la stabilisation post-mise en œuvre.
• Appliquer des pratiques disciplinées de gestion de projet et de programme, y compris la planification, la gestion des risques, le suivi des avantages et la communication avec les parties prenantes.
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement future-state close operating models covering process, automation, controls, data, and people
• Experience leading teams through significant change, with a genuine ability to bring people along on the journey
• Deep understanding of controllership processes: financial close cycles, account reconciliation, consolidation, intercompany accounting, journal entry management, and statutory reporting

Requirements

• Proven experience operating at Head of Finance / Financial Controller level, with broad oversight of the full accounting cycle (AP through to management accounts)
• Strong project management skills and experience, ideally with formal methodology exposure (e.g. Agile, Prince2, or similar)
• Comfortable being hands-on and detail-oriented while also operating strategically
• Demonstrated experience with multi-GAAP statutory accounting across multiple entities/jurisdictions
• Track record of successfully leading financial systems/process implementation projects (e.g. ERP implementation, close process redesign, close automation tooling)

Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, ICAS, or equivalent)

• Familiarity with the intersection between close quality, internal controls, and external audit
• PMP / PRINCE2 / Agile certification, or a Lean Six Sigma qualification

Preferred

• Hands-on implementation or advisory experience with one or more close automation or EPM platforms (e.g. FloQast, BlackLine, OneStream, Prophix, or comparable)
• Experience with modern finance/ERP systems (e.g. NetSuite, Workday, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics) and reporting/automation tools
• Experience in a fast-growing, multi-entity, international business (SaaS/technology sector a plus)
• Prior experience partnering with Legal, HR, and commercial teams on cross-functional finance matters