Financial Controlling Junior Manager

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About the Role

As a Financial Controlling Junior Manager, you will play a key role in supporting the Financial Controller in understanding business operations, identifying financial implications, and ensuring these are accurately reflected in both financial and statutory reporting. You will help ensure the integrity, accuracy, and completeness of legal entity financial statements while acting as a trusted advisor on technical accounting matters across the team and region.

You will contribute to strategic decision-making through insightful accounting analysis, promote strong compliance with policies and procedures, and collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders across the organization. In addition, you will provide leadership and coaching to team members while supporting both internal and external audit activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Support month-end close activities, including preparation and review of journal entries, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and PCAOB requirements

• Ensure financial and statutory reporting processes are delivered accurately, efficiently, and within deadlines, while maintaining strong internal controls and compliance with CARM and external regulations

• Provide accounting analysis and insights to support business decision-making and the FAC process

• Act as a technical accounting expert for the Financial Controlling team, offering guidance and support on complex accounting matters

• Interpret and implement Group Accounting and Reporting requirements, ensuring clear communication and alignment across teams and markets

• Coordinate and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders including Tax, Group Accounting, and other finance functions on financial controlling and technical accounting topics

• Support, coach, and mentor team members on both technical and soft-skill development

• Delegate and coordinate team activities to ensure effective workload management and operational excellence

• Support internal and external audit processes by ensuring accurate documentation, controls, and timely responses to audit requests

About you

• Degree educated in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field

• Fully qualified accountant with strong professional expertise

• 6-7 years of progressive experience in accounting and financial operations

• Proven experience working in international and multicultural business environments

• Strong background in Risk Management, including Internal Controls, Compliance, Ethics, and Governance

• Solid Financial Controlling expertise, covering Balance Sheet management, Group & Local Financial Reporting, and accounting standards/principles

• Highly analytical with the ability to understand the bigger picture, identify key business drivers, and propose effective solutions

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to convey complex financial matters clearly

• Proficient in English, both written and spoken

Flexible Working Statement

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Rewards & Benefits Statement

We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

• Unique Family Leave opportunity

• We work without border - you will work with people from all over the world

• You will deal with world class brand portfolio

• Wide variety of thematic events, afterwork activities organized by employee communities

• Product Allowance to purchase company products from the staff shop

• We won the Fittest Workplace Award, of course we have a Gym

• Urban legend is true, we do have a Rooftop Bar

Diversity statement

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this. We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

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