Director of Financial Control

Key accountabilities will include implementing and maintaining a system of internal controls to ensure that company assets are adequately safeguarded, preparing financial reports adhering to both SOx, IFRS and US GAAP, ensuring that accounting and reconciliations resourcing are in line with business requirements, leading and supervising a finance team of circa 10 heads, liaising and interacting successfully with senior stakeholders, leading the month end close process, successfully managing processes in relation to tax matters and ensuring compliance with Swiss and US regulations, effectively communicating with commercial teams, Group and third party vendors, improving financial policies where appropriate, developing incisive KPIs geared towards business performance measurement, preparing annual statutory accounts and working with the external and internal auditors, leading various projects including investment and CAPEX appraisals.

The successful candidate will be a professionally qualified (ACCA or ACA) accountant with demonstrable finance skills across a number of critical disciplines including reporting, financial control and tax. Applicants must be strategic thinkers and capable of coaching multi faceted finance teams. Technical proficiency across IFRS and US GAAP is essential and advance IT system skills ideally Cognos would be hugely beneficial. Previous matrix/blue chip experience preferred.