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

FI - Financial Controller (Month End)

FI - Financial Controller (Month End)