Finance Controller

Accountable for the execution of financial reporting, accounting, and controls across. Ensures integrity, accuracy, and compliance of financial outputs while supporting effective decision-making and maintaining strong governance. Acts as the primary in-market controllership lead and key interface with Regional Controllership and GBS Finance.

What You’ll Do

Reporting, Governance & Compliance:

• Deliver accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting, for statutory compliance and group reporting
• Ensure compliance with IFRS, group policies, and statutory requirements, including implementation of key accounting judgements and estimated in market
• Maintain robust balance sheet integrity, reconciliations, and substantiation
• Ensure audit readiness and management of external audit processes for market
• Execute SOX controls, testing, and remediation activities

Stewardship & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Partner with Market CFO to support performance analysis and decision-making through providing key inputs on financial actuals
• Provide clear commentary and variance analysis for financial actuals
• Input through financial actuals into budgeting, forecasting, and planning processes
• Maintain relationships with regulators, auditors, and external stakeholders
• Act as escalation point for accounting, reporting and other compliance issues, working with key functions (e.g., tax, legal) to resolve
• Where other activities are retained in market, assume oversight and sign off responsibilities for local tax and treasury activities, ensuring adherence to WPP policies, statutory and regulatory requirements and associated control requirements.

Operational Excellence:

• Oversee delivery of Record-to-Report, transactional Finance and Controllership through GBS across market scope i.e., all countries and legal entities
• Monitor GBS service quality against SLAs and drive issue resolution
• Ensure implementation of global standards, policies, and frameworks
• Drive improvements in close cycle efficiency and reporting quality
• Support automation, standardisation, and process optimisation initiatives

What You’ll Need

• 10+ years of strong financial controllership experience, including time spent in Financial Controller role
• Qualified accountant, with experience in complex external audit environment and IFRS accounting complexity
• Experience operating in a complex multi-entity, multi-country controls environment (US SOX)
• Experience working directly with a Finance global business services function to deliver Record to Report, Transactional Finance, and Controllership and Reporting requirements
• Experience managing local statutory reporting and group reporting consolidation reporting requirements
• Experience in a multi-ledger ERP and systems environment
• Strong senior C-suite level stakeholder management skills
• Strong organisation and interpersonal skills
• Experience working in a Media & Creative or similar nature business (e.g., understanding the nuances of complex media revenue recognition)
• Experience being involved in a successful finance transformation programme is highly desirable
• User-level knowledge of Finance systems and processes (e.g., [insert ERP], SAP BFC)

How We’ll Support You

Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.

At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression.

We believe in building powerful teams with purpose - and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality.

Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve. This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.

Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.