Global Financial Controller

Tewes Financial Recruitment; Rotterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial recruitment agency is seeking a Global Financial Controller to join an HQ finance team in Rotterdam. In this role, you will impact group-level financial reporting and IFRS compliance. Your responsibilities will include acting as an IFRS expert, ensuring the accuracy of the consolidation workflow, and collaborating globally on reporting improvements. Ideal candidates have an RA/ACCA/CPA qualification and 7+ years of audit experience from a prominent firm or international organization.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in auditing, preferably within a big five accounting firm or international company.
• Ambitious and driven individual with strong multi-tasking skills.
• Pro-active mentality with an eye for detail.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted IFRS expert supporting local finance teams.
• Ensure accuracy of the end-to-end consolidation workflow.
• Collaborate with a global network to ensure correct adoption of reporting behaviors.
• Bridge business and technology to drive process improvements.
• Safeguard accuracy of integration flows inbound and outbound.
• Collaborate with a global network ensuring correct feature adoption.
• Perform data interventions to ensure data quality for reporting.
• Support governance of Chart of Accounts and Cost Center hierarchies.

Skills

IFRS expertise

Analytical ability

Multi-tasking skills

Stakeholder liaison

Education

RA/ACCA/CPA education

Job description

Recruitment Specialist for qualified professionals Finance | Audit | GRC

Our clients is looking for an experienced Global Financial Controller to strengthen its HQ finance team. This role offers a unique opportunity to accelerate your career in a dynamic, international environment where your expertise directly shapes group-level financial reporting and consolidation excellence.

As a key player in the consolidation and reporting process, you will be at the heart of the month-end close and continuous improvement initiatives. You will work closely with finance teams across the globe, driving accuracy, efficiency, and best practices in IFRS reporting and financial systems.

Your Impact:

• Act as a trusted IFRS expert, supporting local finance teams on complex accounting matters


• Ensure the integrity, completeness, and accuracy of the end-to-end consolidation workflow


• Run, analyze, and interpretcontrol and review/check reports, translating findings into concrete data, system, or process actions


• Bridge business and technology by translating system enhancements into process improvements (and vice versa)


• Safeguard the correctness and completeness of integration flows (both inbound and outbound)


• Collaborate with a global network of Senior Regional Users, ensuring correct adoption of new features and reporting behaviors


• Perform data interventions (e.g. restatements) to ensure data quality for both internal and external reporting


• Support Accounting and Performance Management teams in the governance and implementation of the Group Chart of Accounts and Cost Center hierarchies

What You Bring

• RA/ACCA/CPA education


• Minimum of 7years of relevant experience in auditing, preferably gained within a big fiveaccounting firm or international company


• Ambitious and driven


• Strong multi-tasking skills, analytical ability and initiative are a most welcome


• ”Hands-on” and pro-active mentality


• Eye for detail, but also helicopter view


• Able to communicate effectively at various levels across the organization