Senior Financial Controller

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At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.

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Why this role is important to us

The Financial Controlling function is a part of the Global Finance Management organization. Together, we are responsible for accounting, financial controlling, consolidation, tax and transfer-pricing.

As a Senior Financial Controller, you will manage the financial reporting and controlling activities for multiple European subsidiaries, ensuring compliance with IFRS and local accounting standards. This role offers the opportunity to gain international experience by participating in month-end closings, year-end reporting, and supporting audits across various European countries.

What you will be responsible for

You will be allocated a number of SimCorp European subsidiaries as your area of responsibility. The tasks and responsibilities include: 

• Ensuring financial reporting in accordance with Group principles and in compliance with IFRS, Group accounting requirements and local accounting principles, if applicable
• Participating in financial month-end closing, preparation of year-end reporting to parent company and being responsible for key areas of accounting 
• Performing analytical reviews of reported results, following up on conclusions and taking ownership in controlling activities
• Ensuring good internal controls in global financial processes and optimizations using analyses and systems 
• Performing controlling reviews of accounting journal entries
• Reviewing balance sheet reconciliations
• Reviewing entries regarding setup of new contracts or new business assets
• Control over local tax and VAT reporting
• Supporting the Group and local audit including preparing documentation for the audit 
• Preparation of local annual accounts in cooperation with external advisors
• Communicating and collaborating with colleagues throughout SimCorp’s Global Finance Management organization 
• Participating in various finance projects and ad hoc tasks (incl. financial system amendments related to legislation requirements, e.g., e-invoicing)

What We Value

Most importantly, you can see yourself contributing and thriving in the position described above. How you gained the skills needed for doing that is less important. We expect you to be good at several of the following and be able to - and interested in - learning the rest:

• Be eager to work with monthly, quarterly and annual closings and financial reporting in an international company 
• Have a minimum 5 years of experience with financial controlling
• It is beneficial if you have experience as an auditor from an international company
• Have solid IFRS knowledge and be familiar with annual reporting under IFRS 
• Thrive in a busy environment with focus on meeting deadlines 
• Be able to work with ERP a system and to be an experienced user of Excel 
• Experience with Workday, Adaptive Planning is beneficial, but not a requirement 
• Be fluent in English

On a personal level, you can keep a sense of perspective, have a positive mindset and are familiar with solving both complex issues and daily “hands-on” tasks with high quality. You like to work in a structured and independent manner with attention to detail, accuracy, and thoroughness. In addition, you are service-minded and team-oriented and both engaged and persistent. 

Quarterly and yearly financial reporting are peak times for us, and some overtime should be expected. Work-life balance is important, and we offer flexibility in reconciling work and private life. 

Next Steps

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually.

Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed.

At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.

If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks. For any questions you are welcome to contact Alina Wiejak, Talent Acquisition Manager, at Alina.Wiejak@simcorp.com.

We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.

Who We Are

For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 3,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds.  

SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for our clients.  

SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, without regard to race, gender, age, disability, or any other protected status under applicable law. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients. 

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