Legal Entity Controller

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Job Function:
Finance

Job Sub Function:
Accounting

Job Category:
Professional

All Job Posting Locations:
Prague, Czechia

Job Description:

The Legal Entity (LE) Controller provides integrated financial oversight across assigned legal entities and/or cluster scope, combining statutory accounting, tax coordination, close oversight, reporting, and financial analysis to support accurate financial statements and informed business decisions.

The role serves as a key connector between Business Unit Finance, auditors, tax partners, global finance operations and shared services teams, and other stakeholders, ensuring high-quality US GAAP and statutory reporting, strong compliance and controls, timely issue resolution, and continuous improvement across end-to-end finance processes.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Reporting, Close & Analysis


* Coordinate close activities for assigned scope, ensuring timely and accurate submissions.


* Review financial statements, trial balance, and key reporting outputs to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with US GAAP and local reporting requirements.


* Perform balance sheet and P&L analysis, variance analysis, risk assessment, and commentary preparation to support management review and decision-making.


* Support preparation, review, and submission of reporting packages (including BRAVO approval processes) and ensure issues are resolved prior to final reporting.

Legal Entity, Statutory & Tax Coordination


* Coordinate preparation of local statutory financial statements and support statutory audit activities for assigned entities, working with internal teams and external providers as applicable.


* Support legal entity accounting activities, including local GAAP considerations, statutory adjustments, and legal entity reporting requirements.


* Partner with tax teams and other stakeholders to ensure accurate tax accounting, timely inputs, and alignment of statutory and management reporting.


* Maintain a strong understanding of entity-specific requirements, key risks, and reporting obligations across the assigned portfolio.

Compliance, Controls & Audit


* Exec...