Financial Controller

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WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US

The Financial Controlling function is a part of the Global Finance Management organization. Together, we are responsible for accounting, financial controlling, consolidation, tax and transfer-pricing.

As a Financial Controller, you will manage the financial reporting and controlling activities for multiple European subsidiaries, ensuring compliance with IFRS and local accounting standards. This role offers the opportunity to gain international experience by participating in month-end closings, year-end reporting, and supporting audits across various European countries.

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

You will be allocated a number of SimCorp European subsidiaries as your area of responsibility. The tasks and responsibilities include:

• Ensuring financial reporting in accordance with Group principles and in compliance with IFRS, Group accounting requirements and local accounting principles, if applicable
• Participating in financial month-end closing, preparation of year-end reporting to parent company and being responsible for key areas of accounting
• Performing analytical reviews of reported results, following up on conclusions and managing controlling activities
• Ensuring good internal controls in global financial processes and optimizations using analyses and systems
• Performing controlling reviews of accounting journal entries
• Reviewing balance sheet reconciliations
• Reviewing entries regarding setup of new contracts or new business assets
• Control over local tax and VAT reporting
• Supporting the Group audit including preparing documentation for the audit
• Taking part in maintaining the group's accounting policies and guidelines as well as supporting the implementation of new IFRS standards
• Communicating and collaborating with colleagues throughout SimCorp’s Global Finance Management organization
• Participating in various finance projects and ad hoc tasks

WHAT WE VALUE

Most importantly, you can see yourself contributing and thriving in the position described above. How you gained the skills needed for doing that is less important. We expect you to be good at several of the following and be able to - and interested in - learning the rest.

You have a solid financial background, a master's degree (finance, economics, or equivalent), and you have worked as an auditor in an international audit firm. It is beneficial if you have experience from a financial controller position in an international company reporting under IFRS. Moreover, we expect you to:

• Be eager to work with monthly, quarterly and annual closings and financial reporting in an international company
• Have a minimum 5 years of experience with financial controlling
• Have solid IFRS knowledge and be familiar with annual reporting under IFRS
• Thrive in a busy environment with focus on meeting deadlines
• Be able to work with ERP a system and to be an experienced user of Excel
• Experience with Workday, Adaptive Planning is beneficial, but not a requirement
• Be fluent in English

On a personal level, you can keep a sense of perspective, have a positive mindset and are familiar with solving both complex issues and daily practical tasks with high quality. You like to work in a structured and self-managed manner with attention to detail, accuracy, and thoroughness. In addition, you are service-minded and team-oriented and both engaged and persistent.

Quarterly and yearly financial reporting are peak times for us, and some overtime should be expected. Work-life balance is important, and we offer flexibility in reconciling work and private life.

BENEFITS

Attractive salary and bonus scheme are essential for any work agreement. However, in SimCorp, we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide an work & private life balance. We also practice a tailored approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.

NEXT STEPS

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.

For any questions you are welcome to contact Oleksandra Nelipa, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, at Oleksandra.Nelipa@simcorp.com. If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.

We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.

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