Financial Controller

Role Summary

A large, listed multinational is looking for a Financial Controller to own its record to report process globally, across a lot of countries, currencies and time zones.
Finance runs through a mix of in-country teams and an offshore shared services centre, so the same process gets done quite differently depending on where you look. Your job is to assess, improve & standardise.
You will report to the GM Finance, with real backing from senior finance leadership.

What the Role Involves

Refreshing the global R2R standards first up. Month end close, journals, balance sheet reconciliations and intercompany transactions.
You'll help set the global standard and then make sure it actually sticks.
Oversight of the balance sheet rather than doing the recs yourself, including targeted reviews of high risk areas and getting aged items cleared.
Owning the R2R control framework, segregation of duties included.
Any internal audit findings that touch R2R come to you to resolve properly, root cause and all.
Driving more automation across journals and intercompany, and looking at where AI can take out manual work (alongside a transformation lead already in place).
One direct report, but a big network of finance teams relying on your standards who don't report to you.

Ideal Background / Experience

Established senior finance leader, not after a first step up.
Audit background, then controllership in a large listed business.
Genuine end to end R2R experience, from how a transaction is recorded right through to what gets reported.
You've worked with an offshore shared services or outsourced model and know how to get the best out of one.
International and multi-currency exposure is important here.
Oracle, BlackLine and EPM or similar, and happy to get into the detail in Excel when needed.
Comfortable with ambiguity. There's no set weekly list of deliverables, so you'll need to be someone who works out what matters and gets on with it.
A services or project-based background is a plus but not essential.

What's on Offer

circa $250k including super, plus STI.
Sydney based.
Flexibility, no mandated office days. It's a global role so some non-standard hours come with it.
Good timing to join, with year end done and half year still a way off.

If this sounds like you, apply here or reach out to Kunal Gupta at kunalg@axr.com.au for a confidential chat.

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