Group Financial Controller

The Group Financial Controller will report to the board of directors (BoD). The Group Financial Controller will be responsible for the fiscal compliance, reporting, cashflow and administration of a group of related maritime companies (group). For these the Group Financial Controller will act as the driver and accountable manager.

Responsibilities: 

• Accurately evaluate and improve current systems, people and processes;
• Provide relevant data and analysis of performance used by management to make decisions;
• Provide clear, regular and timely reporting to build trust, transparency and focused capability across the organization;
• In charge of the company’s annual budgeting process;
• Ensure effective intercompany agreements both in place and actioned across the organization. Keep track of intercompany balances and cashflows;
• Implement and maintain clear systems, capabilities and processes for all financial transactions resulting in a ‘one way of working’ across the board;
• Prepare all financial statements for review by relevant party and manage the annual audit process;
• Monitor the effectiveness of financial processes to ensure accurate recording of information;
• Ensure clear budgets in place across the organization which meet company objectives and mechanism for managing deviances from budget clearly understood;
• Ensure appropriate delegated authorities are in place across the organization to drive accountability and ensure clear control mechanisms in place to enable good fiscal oversight by directors;
• Ensure adequate cashflow and low season mitigations in place to guarantee payment of staff and vendors in a timely manner while meeting any investment and growth plans;
• Manage payment / invoicing systems and processes to ensure timely payment of bills and minimize risk of late payment;
• Reconcile general ledger entries in a timely manner;  
• Be a proactive member of the leadership team, providing help and support to other team members to ensure they are effective in their departments;
• Lead a team of accountants and administrative staff across the organization.

The position can be executed either from Curacao or St. Maarten.