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Role purpose As an Senior International Legal Entity Controller you will be required to take complete ownership of the statutory financial reporting controls compliance for more complex legal entities representing typically service revenue above 50M EUR large number of transactions and high veriaty of accounting activities to be performed by the controller. You will develop an in depth end to end understanding of these entities including their business strategies products and associated technical accounting and disclosure requirements. You will also be required to oversee all finance operations processes for the legal entity working in close collaboration with internal and external service delivery teams to ensure processes are efficient compliant and result in complete and accurate financial information. Beisdes you will leverage your expertise by providing professional support training and knowledge sharing for the rest of the controllers in the team. You will directly engage the key stakeholders either in the local operating company or alternatively working with external bookkeeping companies. You will play vital part of supporting audit engagements of the legal entity assigned to your controllership whereby you will respond to enqueries concerning the finanacial reporting of the given legal entity. The Entity Controller is an important partner to the Head of Finance Operations and closely working with the Enterprise Finance, Enterprise Business, Tax and Treasury teams. Other key partners include External and Internal Auditors and Group Finance.

Key Responsibilties:

Work with appropriate financial and operational teams to provide value added financial analysis e.g. revenues, cost of sales, balance sheet etc. to management, including the Board of Directors where appropriate

• Monthly review of the legal entity results to ensure all drivers of the income statement and balance sheet are understood and evidenced by the production of monthly management accounts
• Production of statutory accounts together with appropriate working papers to a high degree of accuracy and timeliness
• Ensure the effective operation of all relevant controls are conducted in a timely manner and in accordance with Vodafone policies and procedures
• Ensure local finance and tax compliance obligations for all legal entities are met with a high degree of accuracy and timeliness.
• Execute relevant change plans to ensure the legal entities align to the Vodafone Finance Operating Model.
• Actively support and coorrdinate the audit of the assigned legal entities in terms of financial reporting and controls concerned
• Configure ONESOURCE templates data mapping based on information available from the underlying processes and local legal requirements and present final templates to local experts for validation and approval
• Acts as the single point of contact of the entity supports and coordinate the resolution of complex issues between various teams
• Actively look for possibilities to standardize and simplify processes around statutory accounts production
• Undertake projects to identify the scope for improvement in the processes.

Core Competencies:

Qualified Accountant with 9 plus PQE and fair IFRS knowledge

• Proven statutory reporting experience
• Strong stakeholder management including the engagement of the board of directors, leading financial officiers of Vodafone operating companies as well as third party companies
• Strong analytical skills along with capability to review team work.
• Very strong cooperation, coordination, communication and presentation skills
• Strong change management & transformation skills
• Experience in telecommunications industry and or working in shared service environment is an advantage
• Overall solid technical skills and OneSource knowledge is an advantage
• Quick interpretation of accounting standards and IFRS required.
• Team management experience of handling 5 plus qualified team members role specific.