Financial Controller
Full Time
Job Description
- Responsible for monthly and quarterly closes to ensure accurate financial bookings and timely reporting of financials and balance sheet reviews to senior management, for numerous legal entities.
- Ownership of EMEA legal entities incl. statutory accounts process, corporate reporting requirements, account reconciliations and balance sheet reviews.
- Day to day oversight of Controllership team of 7 as well as additional offshore resources.
- Responsible for financial accounting across multiple feeds, channels & departments, with focus on accurate revenue and cost accruals. Involves journal entry review, Interco management, channel reviews and decision making in judgmental areas.
- Supporting multiple P&L owners to validate & understand financial performance of each channel on a monthly and quarterly basis, providing analysis and back up as needed.
- Identification and communication of risks & opportunities impacting on the monthly & quarterly results and supporting FP&A counterparts in the forecasting and budgeting processes to validate key accounting assumptions to ensure these are accurately reflected.
- Providing finance support to commercial and legal teams including new business initiatives such as channel launches ensuring robust, efficient and compliant process in place to support the business.
- Tax Compliance for Corporation Tax, VAT and WHT.
- Local statutory compliance & key point of contact for local French, Spanish & UK authorities and audits
- Build relationships with key stakeholders – including opco functional leads, International Networks Group Controller, Corporate Finance, Tax, Treasury, and outsource partners
- Support the implementation of forecasting and reporting systems and tools.
- Any other duties commensurate with the level of responsibility of this post, for which the post holder has the necessary experience and/or training
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA or equivalent)
- Excellent knowledge of UK, French, Spanish and US GAAP
- Understanding of foreign tax compliance requirements
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office tools (especially Excel & PowerPoint)
- Demonstrated leadership skills with experience developing finance professionals
- Ability to deliver on multiple assignments, meet tight deadlines, be effective and decisive under pressure.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to analyze/present financial & non-financial information to large group and senior audience
- Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders across the business
- Positive can-do attitude and solution focused mindset
- In addition to English, being able to speak French and Spanish would be advantageous
- Experience of working with outsourced service provider.
- Experience of working with General Ledger and Consolidation systems, SAP/BPC/AOE.
- Experience working in a large multinational corporation
- Strong interest in the media industry and television business.
- Previous experience of financial planning and analysis in a Media company.
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