FI - Financial Controller (Month End)

Mission

The Month-End Controller is responsible for overseeing the end-to-end month-end close process globally, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with group accounting policies. This role acts as a key liaison between the Shared Service Centre (SSC), regional controllership teams, and group to deliver high-quality financial results and to continuously improve the efficiency of the closing process.

Responsibilities

• Manage the month-end calendar, ensuring transparency, adherence to deadlines, and proactive resolution of bottlenecks.
• Lead and oversee the month-end closing process, ensuring all activities are completed accurately and on time.
• Ensure consistency in ways of working and roust control of trial balance, P&L, and balance sheet positions.
• Collaborate with BPO partners and regional accounting teams to ensure effective execution of closing activities.
• Identify, report, and support remediation of control or process issues identified during the close cycle.
• Drive standardization, automation, and continuous improvement in the month-end close process to reduce cycle time and increase accuracy.
• Support group audit and compliance requirements, ensuring documentation and evidence are complete and readily available.
• Prepare and present closing KPIs and performance metrics to management, highlighting improvement opportunities.

Requirements

Qualification (CA/MBA or equivalent) or advanced level in career.

Month End Process Experience

• Experience in similar role for at least 7 years.
• SAP or major ERP experience including
• Experience managing BPO organisation in delivering month end process

Soft skills required

• Good organizational skills, ability to manage workload to ensure all key deadlines are met.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Problem solving and a growth and enterprise mindset.
• Continuous Improvement Experience. Challenging status quo,
• Stakeholder Management.
• Analytical Thinking.
• Thrive on working in a highly collaborative and diverse culture.
• However, if you have the following, it would be a plus:
• Excel skills at advanced level, some experience of predictive analysis
• Experience working in Finance/Controllership or accounting areas.
• Global Process Owner experience
• Implementation of systems and processes