Hub Financial Controller

Posted 10 Days Ago
Be an Early Applicant
Cape Town, Western Cape
Mid level
AdTech • Digital Media • Marketing Tech
The Role
The Hub Financial Controller enhances financial performance through reporting, budgeting, and business partnering, while ensuring accurate financial insights support strategic objectives.
Summary Generated by Built In

The Hub Financial Controller is pivotal in driving financial performance and strategic decision-making within the Group Hub function. This role combines strong accounting skills with a proactive business partnering approach to deliver accurate and insightful financial reporting, analysis, and forecasting. By collaborating closely with Hub Leadership and local market leads, the Financial Controller will ensure that financial information is effectively leveraged to achieve business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Reporting

  • Analysis and Insights: Deliver insightful financial analysis that clearly identifies key drivers of performance, potential risks, and opportunities for improvement.
  • Budgeting and Forecasting: Develop and maintain accurate financial budgets and forecasts that align with the overall business strategy, facilitating effective resource allocation.
  • Accurate Reporting: Deliver accurate month-end reports consistently on time, ensuring stakeholders have reliable financial information for decision-making.
  • Performance Tracking: Closely monitor and analyse client and solution contribution margins, identifying high-performing growth and potential optimisation areas.
  • Revenue Recognition: Reconcile Hub-managed revenue with monthly management accounts and support local markets on revenue recognition methodologies.
  • Continuous Improvement: Improve financial reporting through visualisations, dashboards, and actionable insights.

Business Partnering

  • Collaboration: Partner with Hub Leadership and local market leads to drive actionable financial insights and achieve strategic business objectives.
  • Competitive Advantage: Identify competitive locations for resource deployment, considering local salary costs, ease of business, and regulatory factors.
  • Financial Modelling: Develop and maintain financial models that support decision-making and resource allocation.
  • KPIs: Adopt, monitor, and report on key Hub performance indicators (KPIs) aligned with the business strategy (effective hourly rate, billability, productivity, and profitability).
  • Communication: Communicate financial reporting and insights clearly, concisely, and effectively to both financial and non-financial stakeholders.

Structure and Processes

  • Structure: Design Hub structures that support group strategy, enable scalability, and maintain financial simplicity.
  • Recharges: Implement and maintain an effective recharge model that ensures full recovery of Hub costs and is simple to understand.
  • Processes: Adopt robust, automated processes to drive efficiency across intercompany billings and other financial activities.
  • Technology & Automation: Leverage financial tools and technologies to automate processes, improve accuracy, and enhance reporting capabilities.

Qualifications and Skills:

  • Education: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field. Professional accounting qualification (e.g. CA or CIMA/ACCA) is required.
  • Experience:
    • Proven track record in a financial control or similar role, with experience in a shared service environment.
    • Experience in financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
    • Proven ability to build relationships and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams in an international environment.
    • Experience with financial systems and tools.
    • Experience within an international environment and understanding the impact of  multiple currencies. 
    • Understanding the application of transfer pricing methodologies.
  • Skills:
    • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
    • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build rapport and influence others.
    • Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
    • Proactive and results-oriented approach.

Incubeta Company Values:

  • Earn Trust: Focused on maintaining and increasing customer focus, works with the customer in mind earning trust along each step with clients and colleagues
  • Help Others Succeed: Makes an active contribution to a joint result (organizational target) or to resolving problems or conflicts. Think in terms of possibilities. Is able to solve issues and problems in a timely and effective manner, working as a team.
  • Dare to Lead: Is willing to improve individual performance and stimulate others to act accordingly. Setting the standard and example. Being solution driven.
  • Exceed Expectations: Carries out tasks without help from others; takes command of problem situations and aims to achieve more than the basic requirements

    Equal Opportunity Employer:

    Incubeta is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

    Application Process:

    If you feel you meet the criteria please kindly submit your resume, cover letter, and portfolio of relevant work. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.Please take note that if you do not receive a response within 2 weeks of applying, you should consider your application as unsuccessful.

    Top Skills

    Accounting Software
    Financial Systems
    Financial Tools
    Am I A Good Fit?
    beta
    Get Personalized Job Insights.
    Our AI-powered fit analysis compares your resume with a job listing so you know if your skills & experience align.

    The Company
    HQ: New York City, NY
    861 Employees
    On-site Workplace
    Year Founded: 2001

    What We Do

    Incubeta is a team of over 800 creators, thinkers, makers and doers working across 20 offices globally to unlock business growth for clients including Google, Hyundai, Netflix, HBO and L'Oréal.

    Incubeta combines capabilities across the full spectrum of digital disciplines to deliver standout outcomes at every brand touchpoint, from awareness to fulfilment.

    Incubeta’s ‘Upgrade your Growth’ narrative emphasizes how the business will grow alongside its clients focusing on expanding our services and products across the entire customer journey, giving clients back control over their data, customers, and actions. The Incubeta group has grown 20 fold over the past 7 years, offering fantastic growth opportunities for staff and helping its rising number of clients grow in a complex digital environment.

    The unification of its specialisms will ensure Incubeta remains at the forefront of innovation to help businesses unlock the power of digital and amplify growth.

    Similar Jobs

    Morningstar Logo Morningstar

    Associate Investment Operations Analyst

    Enterprise Web • Fintech • Financial Services
    Hybrid
    Cape Town, Western Cape, ZAF
    12700 Employees

    TransUnion Logo TransUnion

    Salesforce Training & Support Associate - GCCA Remote

    Big Data • Fintech • Information Technology • Business Intelligence • Financial Services • Cybersecurity • Big Data Analytics
    Remote
    Hybrid
    3 Locations
    13000 Employees

    TransUnion Logo TransUnion

    Customer Engagement Analyst (GCC Africa - Remote)

    Big Data • Fintech • Information Technology • Business Intelligence • Financial Services • Cybersecurity • Big Data Analytics
    Remote
    Hybrid
    2 Locations
    13000 Employees

    Morningstar Logo Morningstar

    Events Associate

    Enterprise Web • Fintech • Financial Services
    Hybrid
    Cape Town, Western Cape, ZAF
    12700 Employees

    Similar Companies Hiring

    Artlist Thumbnail
    Social Media • Other • Music • Digital Media
    Tel Aviv, IL
    450 Employees
    bet365 Thumbnail
    Software • Gaming • Esports • Digital Media • Automation
    Denver, Colorado
    9000 Employees
    Hedra Thumbnail
    Software • News + Entertainment • Marketing Tech • Generative AI • Enterprise Web • Digital Media • Consumer Web
    San Francisco, CA
    14 Employees

    Sign up now Access later

    Create Free Account

    Please log in or sign up to report this job.

    Create Free Account