Legal Entity Controller

Become a part of our vibrant Legal Entity Control team in Germany, where we act as a trusted control partner to the business and core support functions, safeguarding legal entity financial integrity, coordinating cross-functional deliverables, and enabling confident decision-making in a regulated environment.

As a Vice President within our Legal Entity Controller team, you will play a key role in supporting the existing controllership governance and operating cadence across close, audit and regulator readiness, and key reporting forums. You will work closely with senior stakeholders across Finance, Tax, Treasury, Operations, and Risk/Compliance to shape, execute, and monitor priorities—ensuring timely, accurate delivery of financial statements and regulatory reporting across applicable reporting bases. This position demands a well-organized, energetic, and experienced individual who can take ownership of complex topics with a structured, results-oriented approach, engage and motivate stakeholders, facilitate productive working sessions, and constructively challenge teams to drive timely delivery of high-quality outcomes.

Job responsibilities

• Govern monthly, quarterly, and annual legal entity close activities, including review/approval of key journals, critical estimates/judgments, balance sheet substantiation, flux analysis, and disciplined escalation.
• Coordinate statutory financial reporting deliverables by preparing/reviewing financial statements, managing governance and sign-offs, and ensuring on-time submission.
• Deliver regulatory reporting by coordinating production, validation checks, control execution, and timely submission, and by ensuring consistency to underlying books and records.
• Produce and support senior leadership financial packs and governance materials by coordinating inputs, validating key figures and narratives, and delivering clear, timely management reporting for relevant forums.
• Maintain financial statement integrity by enforcing reconciliation standards, managing breaks/suspense/aged items, and driving sustainable root-cause remediation.
• Control key revenue and expense processes by ensuring appropriate cut-off, accruals, and documentation for material P&L drivers (activity-dependent).
• Oversee operational-to-GL interfaces and data quality by maintaining control standards over key feeds/subledgers and driving resolution of data and posting issues with appropriate evidence.
• Govern intercompany and allocation processes by overseeing service/recharge models, allocation methodologies, confirmations, and reconciliations supported by robust documentation.
• Support audit and regulatory readiness by coordinating deliverables, facilitating walkthroughs, and ensuring findings are remediated and closed.
• Strengthen the control environment by enhancing key controls, documentation/evidence standards, and remediation of control gaps, in line with legal entity standards, and by supporting standardization/automation and system/process improvements.
• Influence stakeholders to deliver outcomes by driving cross-functional execution, escalating issues proactively, and contributing to continuous improvement during peak close/reporting periods.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Demonstrated depth of experience in controllership, legal entity control and financial and/or regulatory reporting within a complex environment.
• Industry experience in regulated financial services, ideally supporting a German investment firm (§2 WpIG) or similar regulated entity, with exposure to brokerage, investment management/asset management, and/or investment banking operating models.
• Strong HGB statutory accounting and reporting experience (hands-on preparation and/or senior review).
• US GAAP familiarity and ability to support/report key differences vs HGB as required.
• Strong understanding of core finance concepts and common touchpoints (e.g., invoice/transaction flows, reconciliations, and reporting timelines), with the ability to partner effectively with Tax stakeholders to identify potential VAT/withholding tax impacts and escalate appropriately.
• Demonstrated experience owning regulatory reporting production, validation, controls, and submission governance.
• Proven track record of controls ownership (balance sheet substantiation, reconciliation quality, audit issue remediation).
• Strong stakeholder management and communication; able to operate with a “no surprises” escalation mindset.
• Advanced Excel and MS Office applications and SAP.
• Fluent German (written/spoken) and strong business English.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities , and skills

• Experience with data platforms (e.g., Databricks), as well as close/reconciliation/regulatory reporting tooling.