Global FinTech Controller

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

• The role is responsible for supporting the Business Partners in the day-to-day financial control of assigned Tech activities, with a focus on data accuracy, timely reporting, clear variance explanation, and practical financial insight.
• Support Business Partners with monthly financial analysis, including actuals versus forecast, key movements, risks, opportunities, recommended follow-up actions and supporting commentary.

Role accountabilities:

• Review, challenge and interpret actuals, forecast movements, recharge positions and key variances, translating findings into clear commentary, risks, opportunities and recommended follow-up actions for the relevant Business Partner.
• Validate outputs prepared by the Finance Specialist, ensuring reporting packs, forecast updates, recharge schedules, reconciliations and supporting analysis are complete, accurate and ready for Business Partner review.
• Lead monthly country finance calls for assigned Tech areas to review actuals, forecast movements, recharge positions, data quality issues and open actions, with Finance Specialist support on preparation and documentation.
• Join monthly lane calls led by the relevant Business Partner to support discussion of financial results, provide analysis and challenge, clarify recharge or allocation movements and capture follow-up actions.
• Coordinate issue resolution with country finance teams, Tech stakeholders, BI&A and the Finance Specialist, escalating material variances, forecast assumptions, control issues or methodology questions to the relevant Business Partner.
• Provide technical guidance and day-to-day workflow support to the Finance Specialist, while management accountability, priority-setting and final stakeholder messaging remain with the relevant Business Partner.
• Lead or coordinate agreed process improvement opportunities across Tech Controlling, including reporting simplification, data quality improvements and reduction of manual effort.

Qualifications & Experience:

Relevant experience in finance, accounting, FP&A or controlling, preferably in a shared service, global finance or technology-related environment, with experience reviewing financial outputs and explaining key movements. The candidate should be a qualified accountant or equivalent by experience.

 The successful candidate will be analytical, detail-oriented and organised, with the ability to explain financial information clearly and work collaboratively across teams.

Other required experience and competencies for this role:

• Good understanding of financial reporting, forecasting, accruals, recharges and variance analysis.
• Strong Excel and data analysis skills, with confidence working with reconciliations and large data sets.
• Experience with ERP, consolidation or reporting tools; Oracle Cloud, OneStream or Power BI experience is an advantage.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to identify data issues, unusual movements and process gaps.
• Clear communication skills and ability to summarise financial information in a practical way.
• Proactive, organised and able to manage deadlines across month-end, forecast cycles and ad hoc requests.
• Collaborative mindset with interest in process improvement, automation and better use of data

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. At Arcadis, you will have the opportunity to build the career that is right for you. Because each Arcadian has their own motivations, their own career goals. And, as a ‘people first’ business, it is why we will take the time to listen, to understand what you want from your time here, and provide the support you need to achieve your ambitions.