Financial Controller - with Growth Opportunities

We are looking for a creative Financial Controller to join our all-star team at Unit4 Portugal in Lisboa.
Growing your career as a Full Time Financial Controller is an amazing opportunity to develop useful skills.
If you are strong in creativity, planning and have the right personality for the job, then apply for the position of Financial Controller at Unit4 Portugal today!

We are Unit4, a leading provider of enterprise applications empowering people in service organizations. We are on a mission because we no longer accept the digital downgrade that people experience when they swap their personal devices for their work ones. We create business software that fits the way people work, not the other way around. Help us be the best and join us!

Due to continued growth we are looking for a Senior Project Manager to manage multiple implementation projects of our market-leading solutions. The successful candidate can be based remotely in the UK, with regular travel required to our client's sites.

As a Senior Project Manager you will be responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution and completion of Unit4 Business World and Unit4 Financials implementations to meet the customer objectives and goals. Our customers are in the verticals, Public, Commercial and Not-for-profit.

Job Description

We are looking for a results-driven and confident Financial Controller to manage and improve our organization's financial performance and direct our accounting operations.

Duties for the Financial Controller will include managing accounting records, evaluating and managing risk, ensuring compliance with regulations, publishing financial statements, overseeing accounting operations, analysing financial data, monitoring expenditure, forecasting revenue, coordinating auditing processes, and ensuring the accuracy of financial information.

Your planning and exceptional numerical proficiency as a Financial Controller will aid our organization in maintaining positive revenue and financial growth, providing input for financial strategies and financial plans that support organizational strategy, ensuring adherence to internal controls, and achieving financial targets.

The ideal candidate should possess strong analytical skills, problem-solving skills, be highly organized, and have management skills. The noteworthy Financial Controller should support streamlining our accounting functions and operations, provide financial analysis and reports, train staff on business finance issues, promote regulatory compliance, and monitor income generation.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Preparing financial reports.
• Analysing financial data.
• Monitoring internal controls.
• Overseeing and preparing income statements.
• Participating in budgeting processes.
• Managing financial transactions.
• Streamlining financial control functions and operations.
• Providing input for plans for financial growth.
• Evaluating and managing risk.
• Coordinating audit processes.
• (Local) compliance

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Accounting or equivalent
• Proven Multi GAAP accounting and reporting experience
• A minimum of 5 years of experience within the Financial Control domain
• Leadership qualities (senior)
• Sound knowledge of accounting fundamentals.
• Auditing experience.
• Compliance oriented.
• Proficiency in accounting software.
• Familiar with working in a shared service environment, preferably in an outsourcing context
• Analytical skills
• Good communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.

Additional Information

A chance to participate in the development of an international leading software firm. At Unit4, you have the freedom and autonomy to be successful. An attractive salary while working in a challenging international environment. Enthusiastic colleagues who like to learn from each other. At Unit4 we invest in your personal and professional growth. We don't focus on how many days you work, we trust you on delivering results - thus, we have an unlimited vacation policy.

 

Benefits of working as a Financial Controller in Lisboa:

● Company offers great benefits
● Company offers career progression opportunities
● Competitive salary