Financial Controller

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We are looking for a results-driven and self-assured Financial Controller to manage and improve our organization's financial performance and direct our accounting operations.

Duties for the Financial Controller will include managing accounting records, evaluating and managing risk, ensuring compliance with regulations, publishing financial statements, overseeing accounting operations, analyzing financial data, monitoring expenditure, forecasting revenue, coordinating auditing processes, and ensuring the accuracy of financial information.

Your planning and exceptional numerical proficiency as a Financial Controller will aid our organization in maintaining positive revenue and financial growth, providing input for financial strategies and financial plans that assist organizational strategy, ensuring adherence to internal controls, and achieving financial targets.

The ideal candidate should possess strong reasoning skills, problem-solving skills, be highly organized, and have management skills. The noteworthy Financial Controller should support streamlining our accounting functions and operations, providing financial analysis and reports, train staff on business finance issues, promote regulatory compliance and monitor income generation.

Key tasks:

• Preparing financial reports.

• Analysing financial data.

• Monitoring internal controls.

• Overseeing and preparing income statements.

• Participating in budgeting processes.

• Managing financial transactions.

• Streamlining financial control functions and operations.

• Providing input for plans for financial growth.

• Evaluating and managing risk.

• Coordinating audit processes.

• (Local) compliance

This is a hybrid position with office in Lisbon

The ideal candidate has:

• Master's Degree in Accounting or equivalent
• Proven Multi GAAP accounting and reporting experience
• A minimum of 5 years of experience within the Financial Control domain
• Manager qualities
• Sound knowledge of accounting fundamentals.
• Auditing experience.
• Compliance oriented.
• Proficiency in accounting software.
• Familiar with working in a shared service environment, preferably in an outsourcing context
• Analytical skills
• Good communication and interpersonal skills

Join Unit4 and be part of one of the most exciting journeys in the cloud ERP software space. We’re a fast-paced, high-growth, people-centric company, delivering enterprise software for a great people experience, and offering our own people a host of benefits and development opportunities. Grow with us

At Unit4, we offer:

• a culture built on trust - giving you the freedom and autonomy to be successful, • balance - with our uncapped time off policy, remote working opportunities and Global Wellbeing Days when the whole company can switch off and prioritize well-being,

• talented colleagues, role models and mentors - work, learn and be inspired by some of the best talent in the software industry,

• a commitment to sustainability - with initiatives such as our Act4Good program, a way for everyone at Unit4 to come together and engage in actions that benefit society and the planet,

• a safe and inclusive working environment – supported by our Employee Resource Groups, which are open to all and include Women at Unit4, Pride at Unit4, Mental Health and Access at Unit4, and People of Color at Unit4.