Head of Financial Reporting and Control
- Recruiter
- Iron Mountain Europe
- Location
- London
- Salary
- Competitive Salary
- Posted
- 09 Sep 2016
- Closes
- 06 Oct 2016
- Ref
- SR4767867a0112f406
- Job Title
- Finance Manager
- Category
- Business Services
- Experience Levels
- Manager
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Head of Financial Reporting and Control
Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, medical data and more for organisations around the world. Organisations in every major industry and of all sizes, including more than 95% of the Fortune 1000 and over 85% of the FTSE 100 companies, employ Iron Mountain as their secure information management partner.
We currently have an opportunity for you to join us as the Head of Financial Reporting and Control with the primary responsibility of supporting our European teams and the Iron Mountain Europe consolidation, although this role reports into the Global Controllership and has global responsibilities. Both aspects of this role are as follows:
Iron Mountain Europe:
- Advising European teams on accounting and reporting for complex one-off transactions that includes lease accounting, revenue recognition, provisions and accruals, cost capitalization, goodwill, asset impairment testing, restructuring and exit activities, and accounting for software development costs.
- Accounting support for acquisition and disposition activities in Europe working with the regional controllers on accounting entries and reporting integration. In particular, supporting the fair value adjustments including Customer Relationship Value, Racking and Lease.
- Provide leadership for a cross functional team of Tax, Treasury, Legal and Accounting responsible for coordination and execution of material fund flows and transactions including financings, equity infusions, capital restructuring, intercompany dividends, holding company restructuring, etc.
- Partner with the functional and country teams around strategies to drive performance, including shared services centres, agreement to cash, control enhancements, etc.
- Monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting of consolidated Iron Mountain Europe financials and disclosure under US GAAP.
- Ownership of a number of quarterly deliverables to the Controllership including the Balance Sheet Flux analysis, Statement of Cash Flows, Purchase Price Allocations, Goodwill roll-forwards.
- Preparation of the month-end close dashboard and identification of opportunities to improve the process.
- Ownership of audit relationship with Deloitte for the European audits as well as responsible to providing various consolidated schedules and analysis necessary to complete the audit of the Iron Mountain Europe consolidation and to communicate with external auditors on accounting issues to ensure agreement with company positions on accounting and disclosure issues.
Head of Financial Reporting and Control - Global Responsibilities:
- Provide ad hoc and formal training on US GAAP and Iron Mountain accounting policies to global teams at Iron Mountain. Effective education of local teams to enable them to understand and apply the policies effectively and consistently
- Lead Balance Sheet reviews of countries in any region at Iron Mountain. Balance Sheet reviews include a review of the balances in all accounts, US GAAP adjustments, statutory audit filings, issues, and results of internal controls testing.
- Support global initiatives such as central oversight of the local statutory audits, close optimization, most favoured pricing analysis, etc.
- Managing and coaching two team members.
To be considered for this Head of Financial Reporting and Control role you will possess the following:
- CPA preferred.
- Significant experience of financial statement audit experience at a public accounting firm in addition to corporate accounting for a large public company.
- An in-depth knowledge of US GAAP or IFRS.
- Line management experience.
- Excellent relationship building skills - ability to collaborate with financial and non-financial stakeholders.
- Works well cross functionally and in a matrix organization.
- Strong problem solving, organisation, communication, documentation and supervisory skills.
- Action oriented, self-starter, works independently and has good judgment as to how and when to involve others.
- Be detail oriented and able to think analytically, strategically, creatively, and practically.
- Adaptable, flexible, an approaches change positively.
Salary: Competitive
In return Iron Mountain offers a competitive remuneration and the opportunities associated with a global super brand.
Please apply online for this Head of Financial Reporting and Control role with your CV and covering letter, then you will be directed to Iron Mountain’s website where you will need to complete the application.