About the Role
Role details below.
Responsibilities
- Uphold Liberty’s values and Guidelines for Inclusion to foster a high performance, collaborative, and inclusive finance culture
- Provide day to day leadership within Controllership, supporting increased scope and complexity of accounting and close activities
- Assume consolidated ownership of core Controllership processes, including: Month end and quarter end book close
- Assume consolidated ownership of core Controllership processes, including: Account reconciliations and substantiation
- Assume consolidated ownership of core Controllership processes, including: Journal entries and ledger management
- Assume consolidated ownership of core Controllership processes, including: Intercompany accounting and settlements
- Assume consolidated ownership of core Controllership processes, including: Accounting policy interpretation and application
- Assume consolidated ownership of core Controllership processes, including: Internal controls and compliance activities
- Lead the transition of book close responsibilities from FP&A to Controllership, ensuring a smooth handover with no disruption to reporting quality or timelines
- Establish consistent, disciplined, and well controlled close processes aligned with best practices
- Standardize and automate controllership processes where possible to support scale, efficiency, and reduced operational risk
- Leverage and adopt best practices, tools, and methodologies from the Global (GRS) Controllership team to drive consistency and synergies
- Ensure strong governance, documentation, and audit ready processes across all controllership activities
- Proactively identify opportunities to strengthen controls, reduce risk and improve operational efficiency
- Support additional finance transformation initiatives and projects as needed
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related discipline
- 5 to 7 years of progressive experience in controllership, accounting or finance roles; preferably, within insurance, financial services, or another regulated industry
- Extensive knowledge of IFRS
- Robust hands‑on experience with book close processes and core accounting activities
- Strong understanding of internal controls, reconciliations, and accounting policies
- Demonstrated ability to lead process change and manage transitions across teams
- Experience with process standardization, automation, or finance transformation initiatives
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to partner effectively across Finance, FP&A, Actuarial, and global teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain accounting concepts clearly to non‑technical audiences
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Advanced Microsoft Offi
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
