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About the Role
As the International Financial Controller, you will be the senior-most member of the Sitetracker International Finance team, responsible for end-to-end ownership of accounting operations, statutory compliance, payroll coordination, and financial reporting across seven international entities. This role offers the opportunity to redefine current processes, modernize manual workflows into automated ones, and provide strategic insights to drive tangible value for the business.
Responsibilities
- Lead the International Finance team responsible for end-to-end close and consolidation cycle across all seven international legal entities, driving a clean, sub-10-day accounting close.
- Serve as a credible, trusted voice to local board members, external audit committees, and executive stakeholders while bridging international accounting standards with US GAAP consolidation.
- Take complete ownership of regional compliance, steering statutory audits, local tax filings (VAT/GST, Corporate Income Tax), payroll and transfer pricing arrangements across multiple jurisdictions.
- Evaluate and modernize global accounting processes, with a key initial initiative focused on overhauling and re-tooling monthly close and Accounts Payable workflows into an automated, scalable procure-to-pay tech stack.
- Directly manage and mentor a distributed team of 2 current direct reports in London and India, re-invigorating manual journal entry and reconciliation workflows while instilling a culture of continuous operational improvement.
- Act as the finance lead standing up new international legal entities, establishing local banking relationships, and embedding robust internal control environments.
- Turn ambiguous situations into workable plans without waiting for explicit instructions.
- Document repeatable processes into clear, concise workflows and reporting.
- Take full operational ownership of the monthly close and consolidation cycle across all seven international entities, establishing clear close calendars and aligning reporting schedules.
- Conduct a comprehensive assessment of current international AP, payroll, JE and reconciliation workflows, identifying immediate manual friction points and quick-win process enhancements.
- Build a single, consolidated view of the international close, statutory audit, tax filing and payroll calendars across all entities.
- Establish strong working relationships with direct reports, setting up structured mentoring cadences and reviewing local statutory audit schedules.
- Collaborate to select, design, and deploy an upgraded, automated global Accounts Payable tool, successfully eliminating manual Excel-based international AP processes.
- Successfully navigate the full slate of annual international statutory audits and tax filings across all active entities.
- Optimize foreign exchange translation methodologies and intercompany reconciliation workflows to accelerate the regional close timeline toward a sub-10-day target.
- Establish a highly automated, best-in-class international controlling function that seamlessly scales as Sitetracker expands into new global territories.
- Benchmark and refine multi-jurisdiction transfer pricing models and cross-border tax arrangements.
- Develop and empower direct reports into elevated roles, having built a resilient, scalable regional finance structure.
Requirements
- Multi-entity, multi-currency accounting & statutory compliance & Expansion Support
- Hold a recognized professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or regional equivalent).
- Possess proven experience owning the month-end and quarter-end close process for 3+ legal entities across 2+ foreign currencies, managing complex US GAAP to IFRS/local GAAP reconciliations.
- Show experience designing or significantly improving consolidation frameworks, including foreign currency translation methodologies and elimination logic.
- Bring a proven capability to accelerate multi-entity close calendars while maintaining meticulous accuracy and regulatory compliance.
- Demonstrate a track record of supporting new international entity registrations, standing up local banking, statutory setups, and foundational internal controls.
- Multi-jurisdiction audit, tax, & internal controls management
- Demonstrate hands-on experience managing concurrent statutory audits and tax filings (VAT/GST, corporate income tax) across multiple jurisdictions, leading PBC list management and auditor relationships.
- Possess expertise designing, implementing, and maintaining robust internal control environments, approval matrices, and reconciliation standards across international subsidiaries.
- Show proven capability to align local statutory regulations with global financial policies and reporting schedules.
- Bring direct experience evaluating, executing, and managing cross-border transfer pricing arrangements and intercompany service agreements.
- Demonstrate a proactive ability to identify, mitigate, and resolve potential cross-border regulatory or compliance risks before they impact the business.
- Payroll oversight, AP, vendor payment management & Tooling
- Possess hands-on experience overseeing multi-country payroll processes and AP/vendor payment workflows, ensuring absolute accuracy and swift resolution of discrepancies.
- Demonstrate high proficiency operating within NetSuite ERP for close and consolidation activities, backed by advanced Excel/Google Sheets financial modeling skills.
- Bring practical working experience leveraging close-management and financial automation tools (such as FloQast, Bill.com, or Concur) to maintain operational velocity.
- Show proven success leading multi-entity AP change management, including transitioning manual procure-to-pay processes into modern, automated AP platforms.
- Demonstrate a track record of evaluating and then implementing technology automation to significantly reduce accounting close cycles down to a sub-10-day schedule.
- Foreign currency, intercompany & banking/cash management
- Demonstrate expertise in accounting for foreign currency transactions, FX revaluations/remeasurements, and complex intercompany eliminations.
- Possess direct experience managing intercompany journal entries and maintaining clean intercompany balance ledger reconciliations across multiple entities.
- Show experience coordinating international banking setup, payment approvals, and cash positioning across distributed multi-entity bank accounts.
- Bring experience advising on or structuring intercompany agreements and transfer pricing frameworks alongside legal and tax advisors.
- Demonstrate a history of strategically partnering with executive leadership to optimize global cash operations and manage multi-currency liquidity risks.
- Organization, documentation & cross-border leadership
- Exceptionally well-organized, with a track record of calmly managing multiple regulatory, audit and payroll calendars at once without anything slipping.
- Documents repeatable workflows into concise playbooks and reporting built for easy review.
- Builds well-formatted reports and datasets for ad hoc analysis that are detailed but concise.
- Communicates proactively across time zones, using async updates, standing cadences and shared trackers to keep distributed finance, HR and legal partners aligned.
- Has directly managed and developed team members across geographies, and genuinely enjoys growing people.
Skills
- End-to-end ownership of accounting operations
- Statutory compliance
- Payroll coordination
- Financial reporting
- Process modernization
- Workflow automation
- Foreign currency optimization
- Transfer pricing
- AP management
- US GAAP consolidation
- IFRS/local GAAP reconciliations
- Consolidation frameworks
- Foreign currency translation methodologies
- Elimination logic
- Close acceleration
- Regulatory compliance
- International entity registrations
- Local banking setup
- Internal controls
- Statutory audits
- Tax filings (VAT/GST, Corporate Income Tax)
- Internal control environments
- Approval matrices
- Reconciliation standards
- Cross-border transfer pricing arrangements
- Intercompany service agreements
- Risk identification and mitigation
- Multi-country payroll processes
- AP/vendor payment workflows
- NetSuite ERP
- Advanced Excel/Google Sheets financial modeling
- Close-management and financial automation tools (FloQast, Bill.com, Concur)
- AP change management
- Automated AP platforms
- Technology automation
- Accounting for foreign currency transactions
- FX revaluations/remeasurements
- Intercompany eliminations
- Intercompany journal entries
- Intercompany balance ledger reconciliations
- International banking setup
- Payment approvals
- Cash positioning
- Intercompany agreements
- Global cash operations
- Multi-currency liquidity risks
- Documentation
- Cross-border leadership
- Team management and development
Location
- UK
- Spain
- Germany
- Luxembourg
- Singapore
- Australia
- India
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior-level
Education Level
- Recognized professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or regional equivalent)
About the Company
- Sitetracker is a globally scaling organization.