European Financial Controller

at  Azets

As a European Financial Controller with Azets you will work to achieve key financial goals and strategies. You will be involved in various tasks associated with financial management, budgeting and forecasting.
You will manage and motivate a small European Head Office team of accountants, reporting directly into the Azets Group Financial Director.

Day to day duties

• Manage the consolidation of European monthly results, quarterly forecasts and annual budgets in HFM
• Ensure that HFM and TM1 reconcile on a monthly basis
• Preparation of monthly Flash report
• Analyse monthly Azets AS head office costs by function, comparing against both Budget and Forecast
• Preparation of annual Azets AS cost budget and quarterly forecasts and apportionment of same to European countries, liaising with European countries for approval on proposed allocations
• Management and co-ordination of Year End Audit, preparing schedules for year-end consolidated audit from HFM. Ensuring that Nordic countries prepare their schedules on time, including PPA (Purchase Price Allocation) calculations and impairment reviews
• Management of IFRS16 European Assets valuation in Group MRI package
• Management of the European cash position, balancing four currencies, taking into account timing differences on receipts and payments within each country
• Weekly cash reporting of previous weeks actual spend against weekly forecast and budget to Corporate Treasury. Investigating changes from previous forecast forecast and review countries with variances
• Update of 13 week cashflow forecast on a weekly basis

Review and monitor any proposed or actual deferred consideration payments

• Drive continual process improvement across the European Finance team
• Refining the process of adding new acquisitions to the cash pool and develop the facility to a multi-currency based facility

What are we looking for?

• Qualified accountant with 5 years relevant working experience
• IFRS Experienced
• Experience in Auditor Management
• Positive attitude, comfortable motivating others
• Fluent in English
• Willingness to travel overseas on and ad hoc basis

What’s in it for you?
Our benefits include hybrid & flexible working, competitive benefits, support from colleagues and much much more.
Our Group Finance team is a wellworking nice small team with excellent colleagues and you have their support in your work. Delivering financial services to our customers is our core business so at Azets you are defenitely not alone as a professional in this area.
Who we are
Azets is an international outsourcing and advisory group. Our 8200 smart talented people in the UK, Ireland, Finland, Romania, Norway, Denmark and Sweden help over 100,000 clients to focus on their business and achieve their goals. We exist to improve the lives of our colleagues, clients, and communities, in a sustainable way. And everything we do is underpinned by our investments in people and technology.
This role is open in Finland and UK.
Yhteystiedot: Join our team
Would you like to join our team? Please submit your application in English as soon as possible but no later than 25.4.2024. We will fill the position as soon as a suitable candidate is found.
For further information, please contact Dave Wormald, dave.wormald@azets.co.uk, tel + 44 7973 334660.
Please apply via link on our webpage www.azets.fi, if you wish to have your working location in Finland

• Manage the consolidation of European monthly results, quarterly forecasts and annual budgets in HFM
• Ensure that HFM and TM1 reconcile on a monthly basis
• Preparation of monthly Flash report
• Analyse monthly Azets AS head office costs by function, comparing against both Budget and Forecast
• Preparation of annual Azets AS cost budget and quarterly forecasts and apportionment of same to European countries, liaising with European countries for approval on proposed allocations
• Management and co-ordination of Year End Audit, preparing schedules for year-end consolidated audit from HFM. Ensuring that Nordic countries prepare their schedules on time, including PPA (Purchase Price Allocation) calculations and impairment reviews
• Management of IFRS16 European Assets valuation in Group MRI package
• Management of the European cash position, balancing four currencies, taking into account timing differences on receipts and payments within each country
• Weekly cash reporting of previous weeks actual spend against weekly forecast and budget to Corporate Treasury. Investigating changes from previous forecast forecast and review countries with variances
• Update of 13 week cashflow forecast on a weekly basi