Hub Financial Controller

The Hub Financial Controller is pivotal in driving financial performance and strategic decision-making within the Group Hub function. This role combines strong accounting skills with a proactive business partnering approach to deliver accurate and insightful financial reporting, analysis, and forecasting. By collaborating closely with Hub Leadership and local market leads, the Financial Controller will ensure that financial information is effectively leveraged to achieve business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Reporting

• Analysis and Insights: Deliver insightful financial analysis that clearly identifies key drivers of performance, potential risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Budgeting and Forecasting: Develop and maintain accurate financial budgets and forecasts that align with the overall business strategy, facilitating effective resource allocation.
• Accurate Reporting: Deliver accurate month-end reports consistently on time, ensuring stakeholders have reliable financial information for decision-making.
• Performance Tracking: Closely monitor and analyse client and solution contribution margins, identifying high-performing growth and potential optimisation areas.
• Revenue Recognition: Reconcile Hub-managed revenue with monthly management accounts and support local markets on revenue recognition methodologies.
• Continuous Improvement: Improve financial reporting through visualisations, dashboards, and actionable insights.

Business Partnering

• Collaboration: Partner with Hub Leadership and local market leads to drive actionable financial insights and achieve strategic business objectives.
• Competitive Advantage: Identify competitive locations for resource deployment, considering local salary costs, ease of business, and regulatory factors.
• Financial Modelling: Develop and maintain financial models that support decision-making and resource allocation.
• KPIs: Adopt, monitor, and report on key Hub performance indicators (KPIs) aligned with the business strategy (effective hourly rate, billability, productivity, and profitability).
• Communication: Communicate financial reporting and insights clearly, concisely, and effectively to both financial and non-financial stakeholders.

Structure and Processes

• Structure: Design Hub structures that support group strategy, enable scalability, and maintain financial simplicity.
• Recharges: Implement and maintain an effective recharge model that ensures full recovery of Hub costs and is simple to understand.
• Processes: Adopt robust, automated processes to drive efficiency across intercompany billings and other financial activities.
• Technology & Automation: Leverage financial tools and technologies to automate processes, improve accuracy, and enhance reporting capabilities.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field. Professional accounting qualification (e.g. CA or CIMA/ACCA) is required.
• Experience:
  • Proven track record in a financial control or similar role, with experience in a shared service environment.
  • Experience in financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
  • Proven ability to build relationships and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams in an international environment.
  • Experience with financial systems and tools.
  • Experience within an international environment and understanding the impact of multiple currencies.
  • Understanding the application of transfer pricing methodologies.
• Skills:
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build rapport and influence others.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
  • Proactive and results-oriented approach.

Incubeta Company Values:

• Earn Trust: Focused on maintaining and increasing customer focus, works with the customer in mind earning trust along each step with clients and colleagues
• Help Others Succeed: Makes an active contribution to a joint result (organizational target) or to resolving problems or conflicts. Think in terms of possibilities. Is able to solve issues and problems in a timely and effective manner, working as a team.
• Dare to Lead: Is willing to improve individual performance and stimulate others to act accordingly. Setting the standard and example. Being solution driven.
• Exceed Expectations: Carries out tasks without help from others; takes command of problem situations and aims to achieve more than the basic requirements

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Incubeta is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Application Process:

If you feel you meet the criteria please kindly submit your resume, cover letter, and portfolio of relevant work. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.Please take note that if you do not receive a response within 2 weeks of applying, you should consider your application as unsuccessful.