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About the Role
The UK Controller – Consulting is responsible for a wide range of controllership activities for the Consulting UK businesses, including month-end close coordination, project-related activities, acquisition integration, and financial analysis support. This leadership role oversees US and Local GAAP reporting, local statutory and regulatory reporting, and ensures a strong control environment.
Responsibilities
- Oversees and is responsible for the preparation of all monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting activities in accordance with US GAAP.
- Provides insightful analysis to support accounting judgments and business decisions.
- Supports the implementation of new accounting standards in line with Group plans.
- Manages the application of accounting policies and preparation of papers to support financial accounting decisions.
- Manages key stakeholders who rely on the finance processes and reported numbers.
- Ensures that key stakeholders such as FP&A are aware of any changes to processes or accounting policy and communicate the impact of any change or finding.
- Manages the external auditor relationships, including liaison in relation to audit timetable, deliverables to Audit Committee, fees and accounting issues.
- Ensures that all Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) control issues are reported and remediated on a timely basis and the business operates in a SOX compliant manner.
- Ensures the integrity of financial controls across Consulting functions and ensuring sound controls operate around the financial result.
- Ensures that authority matrices for transactions are appropriate, understood and followed.
- Ensures that the Balance Sheet is reviewed and fairly stated on at least a quarter end basis.
- Provides strong proactive management for the team including development and mentoring.
- Supports wider team initiatives.
- Provides assistance with project-based work, including due diligence review of potential acquisitions / disposals, integration of acquisitions, system implementations, assessing the accounting implications of new business projects and capital expenditure, entity elimination projects, control project and execution of global / regional strategies.
Requirements
- Significant experience within finance controllership, with several years of management responsibilities, within a large matrixed organization.
- Experience with fiduciary management / OCIO / AUM/ Investment Consulting business.
- Ability to lead and drive change within a transforming, acquisitive and matrixed organization.
- Ability to streamline and standardize financial activities and procedures to improve efficiency.
Skills
- Understanding of Oracle Financials: GL and Hyperion Essbase.
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Several years of management responsibilities
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics or similar discipline required.
- Qualified Accountant preferably ACA; ACCA or ACMA
Benefits
- Professional development opportunities
- Interesting work
- Supportive leaders
- Range of career opportunities
- Benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being
About the Company
- Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries.
- With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective.
- Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office.
Equal Opportunity
- Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment.
- We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- We are an equal opportunities employer.
- We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process.
- If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at reasonableaccommodations@marsh.com.