Director, International Financial Compliance

The International Entity Controller is responsible for the framework governing the Company’s legal entity accounting, statutory reporting, and regulatory compliance across all international jurisdictions. This leader ensures the Company’s entity structure operates within a disciplined control environment while delivering predictable statutory compliance, scalable reporting processes, and operational transparency across the legal entity structure.

The role also drives modernization of the statutory reporting and legal entity governance model, leveraging automation, standardized processes, and operational metrics to enable a scalable global controllership infrastructure.  The role reports into the Vice President, Corporate Controller.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model.

Key Responsibilities

International  Entity Governance

• Own the Company’s international legal entity governance framework, ensuring disciplined oversight of all international entities
• Maintain comprehensive entity compliance calendars, statutory governance requirements, and local regulatory obligations across jurisdictions
• Partner with Legal and Tax to support entity formation, restructuring, liquidations, and entity rationalisation initiatives
• Ensure the legal entity structure remains operationally efficient, compliant, and aligned with the Company’s global business model
• Partner with the Tax organization to support any applicable income and/or indirect (VAT) tax audits

Statutory Financial Reporting

• Oversee preparation and filing of statutory financial statements and regulatory filings across all international jurisdictions
• Ensure appropriate alignment between U.S. GAAP reporting and local statutory reporting frameworks (IFRS and local GAAP where required)
• Maintain strong oversight of local statutory audit processes, ensuring consistent quality and predictable completion timelines

Intercompany & Cross-Border Accounting

• Partner with the Corporate Accounting / General Ledger team to drive the global framework for intercompany accounting, settlements, and cross-border funding activities
• Partner with Tax to operationalize transfer pricing policies and documentation requirements
• Oversee accounting for capital contributions, dividends, intercompany loans, and other cross-border financing and treasury initiatives

Global Statutory Audit Management

• Coordinate statutory audits globally across all jurisdictions
• Drive standardized audit readiness processes, documentation standards, and audit coordination practices
• Maintain strong relationships with local auditors and external service providers supporting statutory reporting

Legal Entity Structure Optimization

• Evaluate and optimize the Company’s global entity footprint, identifying opportunities to simplify structures, reduce compliance burden, and improve operational efficiency
• Support international expansion, acquisitions, and market entry initiatives by establishing appropriate legal entity and reporting structures
• Partner with Corporate Development, Tax, and Legal on post-acquisition entity integration and restructuring

Process Transformation & Automation

• Design and implement scalable statutory reporting processes that reduce manual effort and improve global compliance visibility
• Leverage ERP capabilities, workflow automation, and emerging technologies to modernize the global statutory reporting infrastructure
• Establish standardized templates, reporting frameworks, and governance models across jurisdictions

Operational Metrics & Controllership Infrastructure

Establish a disciplined operating model with clear performance metr