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About the Role

As Financial Controller, you will lead a global finance team and report to the Group Finance Director. You will be responsible for month-end and year-end financial and management reporting for UK and overseas subsidiaries, including global consolidated reporting. This role will evolve with the organization's growth.

Responsibilities

• Own global reporting, delivering accurate, consolidated, and timely monthly, quarterly, and annual management and statutory reporting.
• Own period-end accounting and consolidation accounts for management and statutory reporting.
• Lead the annual group audit, serving as the key contact for auditors and managing a team to ensure timely delivery.
• Oversee mandatory filing of financial statements and tax returns for global subsidiaries through collaboration with local accountants and BPOs.
• Lead subsidiaries’ local audits and manage all group compliance matters, navigating complex statutory accounting, tax laws, and transfer pricing with external firms.
• Oversee internal controls and banking approvals for all financial outgoings.
• Manage the finance transactions team, with support from the manager of accounts receivable and payable.
• Collaborate with in-house legal counsel on exceptional matters related to governance, group structure, and risk management.
• Lead a small, dispersed group of local financial professionals.
• Critically assess, adapt, and update existing systems, processes, and procedures to improve efficiency.
• Maintain a strong global financial control framework.

Requirements

• Hold an active ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent certification, with at least 2-3 years post-qualification experience.
• Must not be in your first role out of practice.
• Proven track record of working across both UK GAAP and IFRS and International compliance environments.
• Experience in running Group statutory audits in the UK and local statutory audits in overseas subsidiaries.
• Experience in Group consolidation processes with cross-border transactions.
• Proven technical accounting expertise across UK and international jurisdictions.
• Regulatory navigation across contrasting tax jurisdictions, filing requirements, and compliance regimes.
• Excellent attention to detail with the ability to communicate complex financial information clearly.
• Proven track record in small-team environments, balancing strategic leadership with direct execution of daily accounting tasks.
• Good problem-solving and analytical skills; ability to produce engaging, concise, and timely management information.
• Intellectual curiosity and a desire to quickly learn new topics.
• Collaborative team player with a can-do attitude.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a diverse and inclusive team.
• Entrepreneurial spirit with the ability to identify and implement new initiatives.
• Resilience under stress and resourcefulness to deliver.
• Alignment with SYSTEMIQ's values (creativity, challenge, collaborate, change, care).
• Professional services background - working within a global advisory, consultancy, or partnership structure (desirable).
• Experience with ERP systems migration, including rollout or upgrade of global platforms (desirable).
• Experience in transfer pricing policy development and documenting cross-border cost-sharing agreements (desirable).
• Emerging market expansion experience in setting up finance operations or new corporate entities (desirable).
• Must have the Right to Work in the UK; Systemiq usually cannot provide sponsorship.

Skills

• Financial reporting
• Management reporting
• Statutory reporting
• Audit management
• Compliance
• Taxation (CIT, VAT)
• Internal controls
• Banking
• Team leadership
• Process improvement
• Financial control
• UK GAAP
• IFRS
• International compliance
• Group consolidation
• Cross-border transactions
• Technical accounting
• Regulatory navigation
• Attention to detail
• Communication
• Problem-solving
• Analytical skills
• ERP systems migration
• Transfer pricing
• Emerging market finance operations

Location

• London

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 2-3 years PQE (Post-Qualification Experience)
• Senior

Education Level

• ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent certification

About the Company

• Systemiq is the system change company, working to accelerate the transition to a net-zero, nature-positive and more inclusive economy.
• As a certified B Corp, Systemiq partners with business, finance, policymakers, and civil society to transform five interconnected systems: energy, nature and food, materials and circularity, sustainable finance, and urban transformation.
• The company brings together strategy, policy, market design, and capital mobilization to deliver tangible results in the real economy.
• Founded in 2016, Systemiq has grown to a global team of over 300 people across Brazil, France, Germany, Indonesia, Kenya, the Netherlands, the UK, and the US, united by a singular focus on sustainability.

Equal Opportunity

• We are keen to receive applications from all parts of the community.
• At Systemiq, we absolutely believe diverse perspectives are essential to driving system change. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where people feel respected, supported and able to do their best work.