Title:Business Unit Controller
ID:JREQ052365
Description
We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.
Job SummaryPosition Overview:
The business unit controller is responsible for the delivery of high quality management reporting and controllership to the Unified Platform Group Business unit within Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk Division. The role is located within Accounting Operations based in London. The role requires strong relationship building with Business Finance, Corporate Functions, Internal and External audit, external customers and within the Service Centre community and is critical in ensuring that all costs, commitments and liabilities are accurately recorded on a timely basis. This role will provide support and control of the business units' balance sheets and ensure that the financial statements reflect international standards.
Essential Responsibilities:
- The key activities for the role are as follows
- Monthly close activities for the areas including preparation and posting of journals, identification of accruals and prepayments and cost assurance activities to ensure that results are complete and accurate.
- Production of monthly management Profit and Loss reports including variance analysis for the business.
- Production of key supporting schedules for significant costs within the areas supported.
- Controllership of balance sheet accounts providing full commentary on movements and breakdown of balances for area supported in line with Corporate Sox guidelines.
- Provide support to Business Finance
- Ad hoc projects
Qualifications
Qualifications
Required Skills and Experience:
- Qualified - ACA/ACCA/CIMA
- Management reporting experience and/or equivalent experience in finance or accounting
- Good knowledge working knowledge of IFRS
- Proven ability to form strong relationships with customer and stakeholders
- Comfortable with working autonomously as well as part of a team
- Proven ability to meet deadlines as well as working to a monthly close timetable
- Clear and effective communicator
- Strong customer focus & work ethic
- Self motivated
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Intermediate Level Excel/SAP skills
DISCLAIMER
The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.
To learn more about what we offer, please visit careers.thomsonreuters.com.
More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.
Job: Accounting & Finance Family Group
Primary Location: London, GB
Other Locations:
Organization: Finance - Controllership
Schedule: Full-time
Education Level: None
Job Type: Standard
Shift: Day Job
Travel:
ID:JREQ052365
Description
We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.
Job SummaryPosition Overview:
The business unit controller is responsible for the delivery of high quality management reporting and controllership to the Unified Platform Group Business unit within Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk Division. The role is located within Accounting Operations based in London. The role requires strong relationship building with Business Finance, Corporate Functions, Internal and External audit, external customers and within the Service Centre community and is critical in ensuring that all costs, commitments and liabilities are accurately recorded on a timely basis. This role will provide support and control of the business units' balance sheets and ensure that the financial statements reflect international standards.
Essential Responsibilities:
- The key activities for the role are as follows
- Monthly close activities for the areas including preparation and posting of journals, identification of accruals and prepayments and cost assurance activities to ensure that results are complete and accurate.
- Production of monthly management Profit and Loss reports including variance analysis for the business.
- Production of key supporting schedules for significant costs within the areas supported.
- Controllership of balance sheet accounts providing full commentary on movements and breakdown of balances for area supported in line with Corporate Sox guidelines.
- Provide support to Business Finance
- Ad hoc projects
Qualifications
Qualifications
Required Skills and Experience:
- Qualified - ACA/ACCA/CIMA
- Management reporting experience and/or equivalent experience in finance or accounting
- Good knowledge working knowledge of IFRS
- Proven ability to form strong relationships with customer and stakeholders
- Comfortable with working autonomously as well as part of a team
- Proven ability to meet deadlines as well as working to a monthly close timetable
- Clear and effective communicator
- Strong customer focus & work ethic
- Self motivated
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Intermediate Level Excel/SAP skills
DISCLAIMER
The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.
To learn more about what we offer, please visit careers.thomsonreuters.com.
More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.
Job: Accounting & Finance Family Group
Primary Location: London, GB
Other Locations:
Organization: Finance - Controllership
Schedule: Full-time
Education Level: None
Job Type: Standard
Shift: Day Job
Travel: