Website:
robertwalters.co.uk
Job details:
Job Title: Financial Controller - Service Limited
Location: Bengaluru/Chennai, India
Perm/Contract/ Full-time/Part-time: Permanent
On-site/Hybrid/Remote: On-site
Who We Are
Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, outsourcing, and talent advisory services for businesses of all sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds.
Our Outsourcing service delivers recruitment for some of the world’s top employers, and we are currently recruiting on behalf of one of our clients, which is a leading international banking group, with a presence in 54 of the world’s most dynamic markets. Our purpose is to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, and our heritage and values are expressed in our brand promise, here for good.
The Role
Our client is seeking a Financial Controller - Service Limited in the Information Technology division.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to join a global team, providing top-tier service to existing and prospective clients while expanding the business on a product and global level.
Job Description:
Job Summary:
Financial Controller – Finance SL will be responsible to lead and deliver all controllership activities including but not limited to accounting, reconciliation, substantiation, reporting and disclosure for the service company financials whose main business is to design, develop and maintain software intangibles for their end users. The governance responsibility of this role extends to upstream process and controls in COO and CIO organisation and collaboration with Tax and Treasury teams. This role would partner with business to achieving the organization goals and the commercial objectives of the business. The role will be accountable for integrity and accuracy of financial reporting in accordance with IFRS and various other local statutory requirements. The role will manage book close process, financial reporting for Group and legal entity working closely with Cost Management, Business Finance, Group Finance, Technology & Operations, Country based finance teams.
Designing FRCF controls for SL based on its business and operational objectives leading to impeccable control and integrity of financial information is an integral part of the responsibilities. Role will be responsible to have strong engagement model with Tech CFOs, Business Finance, COO, CIO and GPO Cost Management to provide best in class financial reporting and risk management with provision of strong control governance framework. In addition to oversight across the breadth of day-to-day delivery, the broad areas covered within this role include:
- Managing, delivering, and governing financial controller related reporting and analytics requirements.
- Strategic direction and oversight of designing processes that will enhance Controls and outcomes.
- Support designing and execution of Finance change journey. This role will also lead activities and functions required for SL Board for its effective governance over the financials.
Key Responsibilities:
- Operating Model Strategy
- Partner with Cost management, Tech CFO and Global Process Owner to formulate and execute day 1 strategy for servco implementation.
- Collaborate with Finance leadership team to embed new servco strategy, control framework and process design to deliver requirements under intangibles and IGAR.
- Design and implement team structure optimising core controllership & Governance outcomes.
- Partner with the Global Process Owner and Group Controller Office to design and execute the controllers’ mandate for the Legal entities and Business segments with End-to-End responsibility and accountability by leveraging on best practices across GCCs in India.
- Work closely with COOs and CIOs to achieve investment capitalization outcomes.
Business and Processes
Financial Controller
- Work closely with COO, CIO, Group Tax, Cost Management and SL Finance Heads to ensure seamless period-close in accordance with accounting standards and practices in timely manner.
- Perform Analytical review of IFRS Financials and disclosures to explain business drivers and ensure there are no material issues / errors.
- Develop strong understanding of firm’s accounting and governance policies and ensure compliance of same.
- Establish clear guidelines that will drive decisions around close acceleration.
- Ensure Primary and Secondary financial statements are prepared in accordance with statutory and regulatory requirements for accountable captions in timely manner. Support Group Financial and Local Statutory reporting for LE & Group.
- Work with Tech CFO and project teams for effective controls around software intangibles.
- Oversee SL balance sheet substantiation process and remediate any risk and control issues.
- Secretarial function for the SL Board.
- Banking and funding management for SL and its branches.
- Manage key control forums at LE & Tech segment level with appropriate KRI & KPI reporting with aim to monitor open items and its implications covering risks and audit issues.
- Collaborate with the change & technology teams for upstream issue fixes to help resolve gaps.
Qualifications:
- Qualified Accountant with 20+ years’ work experience in leading & managing Finance controller function.
- Strong financial control experience of Cost, Investment Capitalization, Finance Risk & Governance.
- Have a sound knowledge on the right-shoring model (preferably with a financial services background).
- Ability to work well under pressure, strong problem-solving skills and some hands-on operational experience.
- Strategic mindset with strong experience in implementation of strategic changes as well as Knowledge of IFRS and standard accounting practices etc.
- Excellent business judgment, operational control management and risk assessment.
- Strong connect with business performance metrics and how it is enabled through good process discipline.
- Should have strong knowledge and understanding of data management, data quality and its linkage in driving business performance management.
- Good eye for detail and with a strong focus on controls and compliance to policies and procedures.
- Results orientation, exceptional energy, and ambition to drive systems, technology and process changes across geographies.
- Demonstrated experience of influencing decisions at senior leadership level. Strong stakeholder engagement skills and ability to work with cross cultural teams.
- Possesses skill to leverage interpersonal abilities to influence others and skilfully build credibility with stakeholders.
- Experience of working in a global organisation in a matrix environment.
This position is being recruited on behalf of our client through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, acts as an employment business and agency, partnering with top organisations to help them find the best talent. We welcome applications from all candidates and are committed to providing equal opportunities.
Client promotes collaboration and aims to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential.
As we are continuously hiring for all our clients in the region, we will retain your CV in our database for any other positions that may fit your profile. Therefore, please let us know if you are not agreeable to that.
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