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EMEA Controller
London
We are seeking a strategic and detail-oriented EMEA Controller to lead financial operations across the Europe & Middle East (EMEA) region. This role is pivotal in ensuring accurate financial reporting, compliance with local regulations, and operational excellence across multiple finance functions. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on leader with deep regional expertise and a passion for driving continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
Accounting
- Oversee timely and accurate month-end close processes across all EMEA entities
- Collaborate with global finance teams to align reporting standards and timelines
- Supervise AP operations to ensure timely and accurate payments
- Supervise AR operations to ensure timely and accurate invoicing and collections
- Manage the intercompany recharge process and prepare the month end intercompany matrix
- Implement controls to prevent fraud and ensure vendor compliance
- Drive automation and process improvements in invoice processing and payment workflow
Audit, Statutory Accounting & Tax
- Ensure proper accruals, reconciliations, and financial reporting in accordance with US GAAP and local GAAP
- Manage internal and external audits across the region
- Manage the year end statutory accounting process for all EMEA entities
- Liaise with auditors, regulators, and internal stakeholders to resolve issues and implement recommendations
- Oversee tax compliance, filings, and reporting across jurisdictions, including R&D tax credits, P11ds/ PSAs, Film tax credits, Employment Related Securities filings, VAT returns
- Partner with external advisors and the CFO/ Global Finance Director to implement the group’s tax strategy and transfer pricing
- Monitor changes in tax legislation and assess impact on business operations
Payroll
- Ensure accurate and compliant payroll processing across all EMEA countries
- Collaborate with HR and external providers to manage benefits, deductions, and statutory reporting
- Maintain confidentiality and data integrity in payroll systems
Treasury
- Manage cash flow including the review and approval of payment runs
- Administer the banking platforms of the group
- Develop and ensure compliance with treasury policies and optimize working capital
- Implement the FX risk management and intercompany funding strategies
M&A
- Work with the CFO/ Global Finance Director to integrate any new acquisitions to the EMEA group
Company Secretarial
- Ensure accurate and compliant filing of all EMEA legal entity company secretarial filings, including but not limited to; confirmation statements, director changes, annual accounts
Experience & Qualifications
- CPA/ACCA/CIMA qualified
- 10+ years of finance experience, including regional EMEA oversight
- Strong knowledge of US GAAP and UK GAAP
- Experience with ERP systems, with NetSuite a plus
- Experience dealing with multi-currency consolidations
- Percentage of completion revenue recognition experience is a major plus
- Creative professional services background is a major plus
- Proven leadership and stakeholder management skills
- Fluent in English
Salary Pay Range
£85,000 - £115,000 GBP
About Journey:
Journey is a global design and innovation studio pioneering multidimensional experiences (MDX) that transform how people perceive, engage, and interact with the world. With studios in New York, London, Miami, and Dubai, we blend strategy, design, technology, and narrative to create sensory-rich journeys that ignite emotion and deepen connections between people, brands, and culture.
Journey was formed in 2022 by visionary leaders who refuse to accept limits. United through the acquisitions of award-winning studios ICRAVE, Squint/Opera, 59, and VMI Studio, together, we form something new: a multidimensional design practice with unparalleled expertise across the physical, immersive, and digital realms.
But we're so much more than a combination of acquisitions; we're a revolutionary framework of layered design capabilities akin to the layers of a technology stack for software companies. Like the best technology stacks, our framework continuously evolves to embrace new capabilities and creative possibilities with the future of the human experience at the forefront. This game-changing framework, the Journey Experience Stack, allows us to design for every touchpoint and create uncommonly cohesive brand universes, drawing on our collective expertise in interior design, lighting design, media design, interactive design, and content creation to deliver industry-first solutions for entertainment, healthcare, retail, hospitality, real estate, and cultural institutions.
No other full-service studio practices multidimensional design or vertically integrates its experience capabilities with this level of sophistication. Whether we’re reimagining the hospital-patient relationship, creating the world’s most immersive entertainment venue, revolutionizing live theater, or crafting virtual twins that accelerate ideas’ passage from vision to reality, Journey’s work is pioneering the shift of how people perceive, engage, and interact with the world.
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