Financial Controller

**Company Overview**
Offering a complete ecosystem of maritime services, including broking, finance, port services and research, Clarksons is at the heart of global shipping. Our unrivalled reach, expertise, and depth of experience, combined with leading research, enables us to partner with clients across every sector to meet the demands of the world’s rapidly evolving maritime, offshore, trade and energy markets. Building on our unique heritage and harnessing our insights to see further, faster, we work with our clients and communities to create strategies that have a positive impact on the industry and the world around us. Dedicated to excellence, it’s our people that drive success for our clients.
**Role Summary**
**What you’ll be doing**
- Finance leadership and control
- Oversee end-to-end finance operations for Brazil.
- Ensure integrity, accuracy and timeliness of monthly and quarterly management reporting, with clear commentary and insight.
- Develop and maintain robust financial controls and ensure compliance with group policies and local regulatory requirements.
- Reporting and compliance
- Lead the preparation of monthly management accounts, variance analysis and KPI reporting.
- Ensure all statutory reporting obligations are met, including annual financial statements, federal and state tax filings.
- Liaise with auditors and manage the audit process for the Brazil office.
- Support the Tax function in managing transfer pricing arrangements and ensuring compliance with international tax regulations.
- Process improvement and transformation
- Drive continuous improvement of financial processes and internal controls, including greater automation and system optimisation.
- Lead targeted initiatives to reduce time to close, improve working capital and streamline end-to-end processes.
- Promote and implement best practices across financial operations in collaboration with global finance leadership.
- Team development and collaboration
- Foster a collaborative relationship with central Finance, Operations, Legal, HR and other global stakeholders.
- Strategic projects and expansion
- Act as finance lead for strategic or ad-hoc projects related to regional growth, restructuring or system upgrades.
- Support M&A activity or new office launches from a finance operations and control perspective.
**What we’re looking for**
- **Integrity and respect** - acting thoughtfully and ethically to do the right thing, and to promote and foster a respectful work environment for all.
- **Drive** - self-motivation and the desire and commitment to succeed, deliver excellence and make positive change.
- **Relationship building** - excellent communicator to effectively build strong, long-lasting relationships with colleagues, clients and others.
- **Collaboration** - working well with others across diverse backgrounds to share information, develop skills and deliver results.
- **Resilience** - persisting and adapting to changing or difficult situations, and adopting a positive and focused approach.
- **Smart** - problem-solving abilities, with a curious and inquisitive mind, and an openness to new ideas.
**Other requirements**
- Professional finance qualification (CPA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
- Experience leading financial control or financial leadership roles, including experience managing teams.
- Strong knowledge of US GAAP and understanding of international accounting standards.
- Demonstrated experience in leading finance functions across multiple entities and geographies.
- Comfortable operating in a multi-currency, regulated environment.
- Experience with financial systems (Workday would be an advantage).
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to influence senior leadership.
**Desirable**
- Prior experience supporting Latin and South America or international offices.
- Familiar with tax and transfer pricing principles across jurisdictions.
- Experience in a professional services, financial services or regulated industry.

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