GSCF | http://www.gscf.com/

About the Role:

The Controller is responsible for leading the organization's GSCF global accounting operations, financial reporting, compliance, and internal controls. This role ensures the timely and accurate preparation of financial statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), while supporting business growth, operational excellence, and strategic decision-making.

The Controller oversees a complex global accounting environment consisting of more than 30 legal entities across 26 countries, multiple currencies, local statutory reporting requirements, transfer pricing compliance, and external audit coordination. The position requires a strong technical accounting background, exceptional organizational leadership, and the ability to operate effectively in a dynamic international business environment.

The Controller partners closely with finance leadership, business unit leaders, auditors, and external stakeholders to maintain a robust financial control environment and ensure compliance with all applicable accounting standards and regulatory requirements.

How You Will Make an Impact:

Financial Reporting & Accounting

• Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes.
• Prepare and review consolidated financial statements in accordance with IFRS.
• Ensure accurate accounting treatment for complex transactions and accounting matters, including revenue recognition, leases, business combinations, post-employment benefits, impairment assessments, foreign currency transactions, and financial instruments.
• Evaluate, document, and implement technical accounting positions under IFRS.
• Monitor emerging IFRS standards and assess organizational impacts.
• Oversee accounting and reporting activities for more than 30 legal entities operating across 26 countries.

Global Accounting Operations

• Oversee general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, leases, payroll accounting, and intercompany accounting activities.
• Manage a complex multi-entity, multi-currency global accounting environment.
• Ensure consistency and accuracy of accounting policies across global operations.
• Coordinate accounting processes across international subsidiaries and shared service centers.
• Manage annual statutory reporting requirements, including the preparation and filing of more than 25 local statutory financial statements.
• Partner with local finance teams and external service providers to ensure compliance with country-specific accounting and reporting requirements.
• Ensure alignment between management reporting and local statutory reporting across jurisdictions, including reconciliation of local ledgers and consolidated reporting.

Audit, Tax & Compliance

• Maintain a strong internal control environment and support risk management initiatives.
• Develop, implement, and monitor accounting policies and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with applicable regulatory, tax, and statutory reporting requirements.
• Coordinate and manage more than 10 annual external audits across multiple jurisdictions.
• Partner with tax advisors to support global transfer pricing policies and documentation requirements in more than 25 countries.
• Support tax audits, statutory examinations, and regulatory inquiries as needed.
• Support internal and external audit activities, serving as primary liaison with external auditors and addressing audit findings, technical accounting matters, and deliverables.

Financial Planning Support

• Partner with FP&A to provide accurate and timely financial information and analysis.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow management activities, ensuring financial data is recorded with appropriate granularity and consistent classification.
• Ensure alignment across IFRS reporting, local statutory reporting, and management reporting, with consistent definitions and reconciliations.
• Provide financial insights to support operational and strategic decision-making.

Leadership & Team Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop a global accounting organization.
• Ensure execution excellence by leading technical accounting judgement and driving consistent financial reporting across global entities.
• Establish performance expectations and promote continuous improvement.
• Drive process optimization, automation, and scalability initiatives across the finance function, including enhancements to financial systems, close processes, and reporting tools to improve efficiency, accuracy, and control.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with global finance, tax, legal, and operational stakeholders.

What You Bring to the Team:

Required
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
• CPA, CA, ACCA, or equivalent professional certification.
• 10+ years of progressive accounting and finance experience.
• 5+ years in a leadership role managing accounting teams.
• Deep knowledge of IFRS accounting standards and financial reporting requirements.
• Experience leading global consolidations involving multiple legal entities and foreign currencies.
• Experience managing statutory reporting requirements across multiple countries.
• Experience coordinating external audits in multiple jurisdictions.
• Working knowledge of international tax and transfer pricing concepts.
• Strong understanding of internal controls and audit requirements.
• Advanced proficiency with ERP systems and financial reporting tools.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills.

Preferred
• Experience in a private equity-backed, high-growth, or multinational organization.
• Experience managing accounting operations across EMEA, APAC, and the Americas.
• Experience with NetSuite or similar ERP platforms.
• Experience designing and maintaining effective internal control and governance frameworks within a multinational organization.