Financial Controller - Europe GAAP - IT

Education:

- UG - B. Com., or BBM

- PG - MBA/PGDM - Finance

- CPA/CA/ICWA Required

Experience:

Experience: 10+ years of experience in a senior accounting role preferably in a software products industry; Prior Controllership experience an added advantage.

Non Technical Skills :

- Excellent communication skills

- An analytical mind

- Attention to detail

- Must have good interpersonal skills

- Self motivated to learn new concepts and participate in new project

Competencies :

- Expert Knowledge of Indian GAAP, Europe GAAP and IFRS

- MIS

- Working knowledge of SAP

- Proficiency in MS Office applications

- Creates and maintains good working and professional environment

Team management : size- 5 to 10nos

Personality traits :

- Assertiveness

- Dependability & Accountability

- Proactive

- Motivator/Mentor

Roles & Responsibility :

Responsibility :

- Sales or commissioning reports

- Ensure adherence to established policies and processes;

- Suggest process improvements and changes to ensure better process and internal financial controls;

- Ensure timely monthly closure of accounts for all the above entities as per local GAAP and Europe GAAP;

- Lead the on audit for the group including providing necessary information/schedules for financial statements as per Europe GAAP to the statutory/external auditor;

- Lead the revenue recognition function; Should have working knowledge of revenue recognition in a software company per Europe GAAP;

- Review of monthly global financial consolidation process, variance analysis, account analyses, suggest and make changes if required;

- Periodically review statutory compliance like vat filing / Europe payroll tax Sales and use tax filings, Europe payroll taxes, advance tax calculations, tax expense projections, etc;

- Oversee the inter-company reconciliations and settlements on a monthly basis;

- Compliance with tax applicability and filing requirements in all the states of europe for services business;

- Lead all the tax filings with Europe with respect to the company and investors;

- Ensure third party time sheet software and third party expense report management software are properly - tuned- with SAP;

- Manage expense reports disbursements, adherence with policy and alignment with payroll timelines;

- Create and Update the compliance calendar;

- Review the internal audit process and the internal audit reports at those locations;

- Review of yearly financial statements as per local GAAP, review the balance sheet items, tax calculations and provisions and reconcile them to Europe GAAP;

- Assist in the annual budgeting process for Europe entities;

- Assist in the management of all transfer pricing issues;

- Continue to streamline operations and enhance reporting package;

- Assist in the management of corporate liability insurance.