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Financial Controller
Paymerang
Accounting & Finance
Prague, Czechia
Posted on May 9, 2025
Your role
We are looking for an experienced Financial Controller to join our international team based in Prague.Overview of main responsibilities include:
- Managing the Statutory P&L and Balance Sheet for all regions within your control
- Responsibility for the delivery of the month-end close by ensuring accurate and timely recording of financial transactions in accordance with local & US GAAP/IFRS standards
- Ensuring robust financial controls and processes are in place, continuously striving to improve the control environment and move towards best practice
- Supporting the Head of Controlling to develop and maintain best practice accounting functions through the standardization of processes and implementation of the continuous improvement program
- Responsibility for Statutory Accounts and audits relative to the regions in Control.
What you'll be doing
What you will be doing:
1. Operational activities and responsibilities
- Coordinate and support the Head of Controlling with the month-end closing (MEC) process for the statutory Financial Statements (P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement reconciliation:
- Manage activities within defined MEC timelines
- Ensure proper accruals and accounting estimates are incorporated
- Preparation of the Reporting Pack to FLEETCOR headquarters EOD on WD+5
- Prepare variance analysis of Balance Sheet items
- Closely cooperate with Financial Shared Services and the Tax teams to ensure statutory P&L and BS are compliant with Tax/TP regulations, statutory requirements, and accounting standards (local GAAP, US GAAP).
- Support revenue assurance, through a robust reconciliation process between billing systems to ERP, ensuring accurate accounting of all associated Revenue and Cost of Sales items are accurately recorded and accounted for.
- Ensure general ledgers are maintained accurately through timely account analyses and reconciliations with appropriate supporting documents.
- establish strong working relationships with FLEETCOR finance colleagues
- Partner with business effectively to ensure that finance advice is timely, and supporting the business in navigating accounting requirements enabling strategic outcomes
3. Audit & Internal Control:
- Ensure monitoring and control mechanisms are fit-for-purpose and aligned to strategic objectives.
- Lead and manage the timely response to all audit queries and work closely with the Audit Leader to ensure that audit responses satisfactorily addresses all queries
- Oversee SOX controls for entities within your control
- Responsible for the preparation and delivery of Statutory Accounts for regions in your control
4. Continuous Improvement
- Ensure that there are robust business continuity plans, risk management and continuous improvement plans in place for month end close process
- Stay updated with relevant accounting standards, regulations, and industry trends to ensure compliance and to mitigate Financial, Operational, Anti-bribery, Fraud and Reputational risks
- Lead and actively contribute towards the continuous program, relative to financial systems and processes
What do you need to succeed:
Must-have qualifications and skills:
- Approximately 5+ years of relevant accounting experience obtained within an accounting firm or in a large complex organization.
- Demonstrated experience in working with auditors and preparation of Statutory Financial Reports
- Highly competent in accounting
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate with all staff and executive levels within the organization.
- Very good in English (written and oral)
- Proficient with Excel and other Microsoft Office applications
- Meticulous and strong attention to detail
- Deadline-oriented, good time management and organizational skills
- Flexible, quick learner, positive ‘can do’ attitude.
- Ability to multi-task, ability to adapt to changing priorities.
- Experience in process standardization and improvement
This will give you an advantage:
- A bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting
- Membership with a professional institute (preferred)
- Experience with process and systems improvements
- Experience in pan-EU financial statement preparation
- High-level analytical, conceptual, and problem-resolution skills.
- Knowedge of the Czech language
🎁What we offer:
- Interesting and challenging job in an international and growing company
- Competitive salary
- 5 weeks of vacation, 3 sick days, 2 free days, 2 Global Volunteering days
- Training and further education opportunities
- Hybrid working model: 3 days office, 2 days Home Office
- Base in a modern office in Palmovka, where you will have access to an open roof terrace, relax rooms, kitchens with new coffee machines, and different kinds of tea available
- Fresh fruit is delivered every Tuesday to the office
- Meal allowance sent directly to your bank account: 99 CZK per working day,
- Flexible benefits system: you will have a monthly budget of 1300 CZK, which you could spend either on an additional retirement contribution, or Multisport card, or as an additional budget on your Pluxee account (former Sodexo)
- Special offer for mobile tariff
- Special offer for our fueling cards
- Massages in the office - we will cover half of the price!
- Gifts for work anniversaries, life jubilees, weddings, and registered partnerships.
About FLEETCOR
FLEETCOR is a global technology organisation that is leading the future of commercial payments with a culture of innovation that drives us to constantly create new and better ways to pay. Our specialized payment solutions help businesses control, simplify, and secure payment for fuel, general payables, toll and lodging expenses. Millions of people in over 80 countries around the world use our solutions for their payments.
All offers of employment made by FLEETCOR (and its subsidiary companies) are subject to the successful completion of satisfactory pre-employment vetting by an independent supplier (Experian). This is in accordance with FLEETCOR's Resourcing Policy and include employment referencing, identity, adverse financial, criminal and sanctions list checks. We do this to meet our legal and regulatory requirements.
FLEETCOR is dedicated to encouraging a supportive and inclusive culture among our employees. It is within our best interest to promote diversity and eliminate discrimination in the workplace. We seek to ensure that all employees and job applicants are given equal opportunities.
Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives: FLEETCOR will not accept unsolicited CV's from agencies and/or search firms for this job posting. Resumes submitted to any FLEETCOR employee by a third party agency and/or search firm without a valid written & signed search agreement, will become the sole property of FLEETCOR. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral. Thank you.