VP – Corporate Cost Controller recruitment

The Corporate Controller’s role is to provide financial management, reporting and control of the Firm’s back and middle office costs, including opex, capex and allocations. A key part of the role is to provide financial advice to the Corporate Executive and Front Office on how they can influence and reduce these costs. As such, this role requires a unique mix of financial control experience, strong business partnering skills, and accounting expertise

Key Responsibilities

• Full financial management of the Corporate cost base including budgeting, forecasting, reporting, analysis

• Supporting the CAO and his/her management team, advising on performance vs. budget, financial strategy, efficiency opportunities, and financial impacts of operating model changes

• Ownership of the Corporate Cost allocation model, including initiatives to improve global consistency and cost transparency

• Facing off to the business to explain cost allocations and drivers thereof, and advising how they can optimize their consumption of key services such as IT, Operations and Real Estate

• Provide financial support, advice, business case evaluation for key Corporate initiatives such as outsourcing, offshoring, real estate consolidation, etc

• Developing and implementing reporting and management review of capex and balance sheets for Corporate divisions

• Managing a team of controllers and analysts

• Leading, implementing and/or participating in key Finance initiatives that impact the Corporate cost base

Key Candidate Requirements

• Fully qualified accountant essential (CA, CIMA, CPA, CMA, etc)

• Experience in management accounting or financial control roles, with exposure to IT, Operations or Real Estate divisions/businesses

• A combination of meticulous attention to detail and the ability to think, act and present information at an executive level

• Strong business partnering skills

Right to Work
The UK Government have taken steps to reduce net migration to the UK by limiting the number of overseas workers from outside the EEA coming to the UK for employment. Please note that whilst we are able to consider applications from overseas workers from outside the EEA ( who require a Tier 2 (General) visa) we can only employ them if we can provide evidence that there are no other suitable candidates for this vacancy from inside the EEA