LATAM Regional Controller

Confidential Careers; Ciudad de México; On-site; MXN 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Careers in Mexico City seeks a LATAM Regional Controller to own controllership across seven Latin American countries. You will manage monthly close, statutory reporting, tax compliance and regional cash forecasting, while coordinating with corporate finance and SAP implementations.

The role requires extensive multi-country experience, fluency in Spanish and English, and a strong command of local GAAP/IFRS conversions. This is a senior, fully on-site position based in Mexico City.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field.
• 8+ years of progressive accounting and controllership experience, including multi-country responsibility in Latin America.
• Expert command of Mexican accounting and tax: NIF, ISR and IVA compliance, CFDI, contabilidad electrónica and DIOT, plus direct experience handling SAT requirements and statutory audits in Mexico.
• Experience owning accounting decisions under UK GAAP or IFRS (revenue recognition, WIP, receivables, provisions) and local GAAP conversion, in a multinational reporting to a UK or global parent.
• Track record of running local statutory audits and supporting group audits on time.
• Experience building cash forecasts and funding requests in a multinational or growth-stage environment.
• Fluent Spanish and English.

Responsibilities

• Own the monthly close across seven countries.
• Review and approve reconciliations, journal entries and trial balances prepared by in-country accountants.
• Resolve differences between local books and corporate reporting, including local GAAP to UK GAAP/IFRS adjustments.
• Own the region's accounting decisions and technical positions: consistent with corporate policy, well documented, escalated when needed.
• Own the integrity of revenue recognition, WIP, receivables and provisions at every close.
• Standardize close procedures and templates across the region, using Mexico and Chile as the model.
• Ensure timely statutory financial statements in all seven countries, including Mexican statutory reporting under NIF.
• Run local statutory audits end to end as the auditors' main contact, directly in Mexico and Chile.
• Oversee tax and VAT compliance across the region, hands-on in Mexico (ISR, IVA, DIOT, SAT electronic reporting) and Chile, with local tax advisors.
• Own the regional cash forecast and prepare funding requests to the parent company, with regional FP&A and Treasury.
• Represent LATAM controllership requirements in the SAP implementation, so close, statutory and tax processes for all seven countries are built into design and testing.

Skills

Fluent Spanish and English

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or related field

Tools

SAP

Job description

Seven countries. One standard of accounting quality. Yours.

A global professional services group is hiring a LATAM Regional Controller based in Mexico City to own controllership across its Latin American operations. This is a confidential search.

You will own the monthly close, the accounting decisions, statutory reporting and audits, local tax and VAT compliance, and the regional cash forecast — in seven countries:

How you will run the region

• Mexico and Chile — hands-on. The region's largest and most complex operations. You own the close, statutory reporting and tax yourself.
• Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Panama — review level. You review, approve and challenge the work of in-country accountants and local advisors, and set one close standard for all.
• Corporate — single point of contact. You are the link between Latin America and corporate finance on every controllership matter.

Please note: this is a pure controllership role. It does not include FP&A, budgeting, operating forecasts or business partnering with operations. If owning accounting quality across a region is what you want, read on.

Reporting line: Corporate Controllership (functional) and Regional Managing Director, Latin America (matrix). You will work closely with regional FP&A and with global Tax, Treasury, Internal Audit and IT.

What you will own

Monthly close across seven countries

• Own the regional close calendar: hands-on in Mexico and Chile, review-level in the other five markets.
• Review and approve reconciliations, journal entries and trial balances prepared by in-country accountants.
• Resolve differences between local books and corporate reporting, including local GAAP to UK GAAP/IFRS adjustments (Mexican NIF to UK GAAP/IFRS).
• Own the region's accounting decisions and technical positions: consistent with corporate policy, well documented, escalated when needed.
• Own the integrity of revenue recognition, WIP, receivables and provisions at every close.
• Standardize close procedures and templates across the region, using Mexico and Chile as the model.

Statutory reporting and audits

• Ensure timely statutory financial statements in all seven countries, including Mexican statutory reporting under NIF.
• Run local statutory audits end to end as the auditors' main contact, directly in Mexico and Chile.
• Keep a regional compliance calendar of filing deadlines and audit milestones by country.
• Support group audits with accurate, timely schedules and responses.

Local tax and VAT

• Oversee tax and VAT compliance across the region, hands-on in Mexico (ISR, IVA, DIOT, SAT electronic reporting) and Chile, with local tax advisors.
• Monitor regulatory changes in each country and assess their impact on reporting obligations.

Cash forecasting and funding

• Own the regional cash forecast and prepare funding requests to the parent company, with regional FP&A and Treasury.
• Track actual cash against forecast and flag funding needs, timing and variances to corporate early.

SAP implementation — regional finance workstream

• Represent LATAM controllership requirements in the upcoming SAP implementation, so close, statutory and tax processes for all seven countries are built into design and testing.
• Validate local statutory, tax and VAT configurations (including CFDI e-invoicing in Mexico and fiscal localization in each country) before go-live.
• Coordinate UAT with in-country accountants and support hypercare after go-live.

Corporate interface and team oversight

• Translate corporate reporting requirements into processes each country can execute.
• Report close status, compliance, risks and open items to corporate, and escalated country risks on time.
• Give technical guidance and quality review to accountants in all seven markets, including onboarding and training on corporate policy and new SAP processes.

What you bring

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field.
• 8+ years of progressive accounting and controllership experience, including multi-country responsibility in Latin America.
• Expert command of Mexican accounting and tax: NIF, ISR and IVA compliance, CFDI, contabilidad electrónica and DIOT, plus direct experience handling SAT requirements and statutory audits in Mexico.
• Experience owning accounting decisions under UK GAAP or IFRS (revenue recognition, WIP, receivables, provisions) and local GAAP conversion, in a multinational reporting to a UK or global parent.
• A track record of running local statutory audits and supporting group audits on time.
• Experience building cash forecasts and funding requests in a multinational or growth-stage environment.
• Strong working knowledge of Chilean statutory, tax and VAT requirements, and enough knowledge of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Panama to review and challenge local advisors.
• Fluent Spanish and English.
• Proven ability to guide in-country teams across several jurisdictions and explain local compliance and risk clearly to corporate stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience in an ERP implementation or migration, ideally SAP, representing finance or controllership from design through go-live.
• Portuguese, given Brazil is in scope.

Why this role

• Real regional scope: seven countries and one close standard that you define.
• A system to shape: you are the controllership voice in SAP design before go-live, not after.
• A direct line to corporate finance in a global group.
• Room to build process and discipline where they are still maturing.