The Business

team.blue was created in 2019 by the merger of regional leading hosting providers Combell Group, Register Group and TransIP Group and offers digital presence and enablement tools such as domains, hosting, email, VPS and applications to over 2.5 million SME, SoHo and developer customers across Europe.

The group consists of 4000+ employees, 70+ well-known and respected brands, spanning across 23 European countries – with a bloodline that represents total commitment to customers. (requires updating to reflect standard team.blue intro)

Your opportunity

The Group Financial Controller will work together with our group finance, shared finance service center and local finance teams to improve our way of working. You’ll be a key player in driving the ongoing transformation of our finance department. You will be involved in a broad range of accounting and reporting subjects.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for creation and development of accounting policies and procedures, and ownership of processes to ensure an effective control environment.

• Ownership of statutory accounts and direct management of group external audit, along with oversight of all subsidiary audits.

• Be the definitive expert within the business on technical accounting topics

• Accountable for internal audit and control

• Accountable for the design and effective management of intercompany accounting across the group

• Responsible for ensuring financial reporting integration for all new companies acquired

• Ensuring regulatory compliance across jurisdictions

Report to the Group CFO.

Skills and experience

• Qualified accountant - +10 years PQE. Deep understanding of current accounting standards

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in Financial Controller roles in large (+ €100 million revenue) multinational businesses.

• Fluent in spoken and written English.
  

Personal attributes and key competencies

• A structured, data driven and analytical mindset with a hands-on attitude.

• Strong attention to detail is essential for this role

• Ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to individuals at all levels

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills on all levels.

• Able to prioritize in a dynamic and changing global environment.

• Problem-solving and decision-making under ambiguity.

• Leadership experience with leading small teams.

• Proven skills in effective influencing across large teams.