Regional Financial Controller

We’re Nord Anglia Education, the world’s largest premium international schools organisation. Every day, our teachers and support colleagues help our thousands of students achieve more than they ever imagined possible.

A transformational education at one of our schools is focussed on excellent academic outcomes, creativity, wellbeing, and international connectedness. Our innovative use of educational technology also creates a personalised, 21st century learning experience for all students, while our global scale means we can recruit and retain the world’s best teachers and offer unforgettable events and expeditions.

Our people are empowered to make a difference in their fields of expertise. Our fast pace of growth requires evolution and change from everyone, giving you the chance to define the role you do in the future. This challenges the learning agility of our employees and ensures every day brings interesting new experiences.

Founded in 1972 in the United Kingdom, our first international school opened in 1992 in Warsaw, followed by rapid growth across the world since the 2000s.

When you join our team, you’ll become part of a global family of experts working for a fast-growing premium international brand.

Reporting to the Regional Finance Director, responsibilities will include external and internal financial reporting, maintaining accurate accounting ledgers, internal controls and audits, and managing the shared accounting services for the region.

• Be the primary interface with external auditors for management of interim and year end testing procedures and deliverables for both US and Latin American schools.
• Primary interface with the Group finance teams.
• Driving best practice and supporting with finance and accounting expertise for the region.
• Responsible for clustered, shared services, SLA targets performing general accounting, purchasing and receivable processes.
• Knowledgeable and responsive to the business needs and wants, with the ability to adapt accounting policies, procedures and financial reporting systems as required.

• Lead the reporting deliverables for the region.
• Continuously improve the financial close process and reduce reliance on manual and inefficient processes across the schools.
• Work on internal controls to make improvements and reduce risks.
• Work cross-functionally with other teams (i.e. Regional HR / Regional IT) to understand requirements for finance and vice versa.
• Business strategy and planning on the accounting considerations of potential contracts/ transactions.

• Reporting.
• Responsibility to review the month end, quarter end and year end accounts of the schools, ensuring monthly accounts are prepared on a timely basis in compliance of accounting policies and procedures of Nord Anglia Education.
• Interpret, review and approve monthly journals.
• Manage the external audit, ensuring our schools are audit ready and come through the annual audit cycle successfully with a clean bill of health.
• Review of month end balance sheet identifying reasons for movements and month on month variances ensuring significant balance sheet movements are well explained and documented.
• Ensure all reporting deliverables are sent on time, reviewed, accurate and in the correct format for month end, quarterly and year end reporting packs.
• Leading compliance of new schools accounting with group accounting policies.
• Responsibility for the accounting and filing of any regional holding or dormant companies.
• Leading on Opening Balance sheet work with new acquisitions.

• Work with Group FC to align, enhance and standardize financial reports and to develop and implement financial and commercial processes and systems that are consistent, robust, auditable and secure.
• Encourage Best Practice processes across the region and work with schools and Group FC to improve efficiency of month end closing with a target reporting deadlines.
• Manage the region’s Design Reference Group (DRG) of Finance System experts to share best practices, draw out effective and…