About this role
Global FinTech Controller
Hybrid
Global FinTech Controller
Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines
Job description
Company and benefits
Job ID
44815
Date Posted
2026-10-01
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; Orac