Business Unit Controller with Italian

Job Description

We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.

The role is responsible for managing accounting, statutory, and tax compliance activities, as well as providing financial accounting and control oversight for assigned Thomson Reuters legal entities.

The successful candidate will bring the ability, eagerness, and drive to collaborate across a broad network of colleagues, departments, and outsourced service providers to deliver a world-class accounting and compliance operation. The role will have primary responsibility for Italy, alongside other allocated countries.

This role is based in Gdańsk, Poland and requires strong relationship-building skills to effectively partner with outsourced professional accounting and compliance service providers, tax agents, and auditors.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage financial reporting, statutory accounting, and tax compliance activities for Italy and other assigned legal entities.
• Review entity accounts to ensure compliance with Group and local reporting requirements.
• Oversee month-end close activities, including balance sheet and P&L reviews, reconciliations, and critical financial processes.
• Maintain effective internal controls, including SOX controls and supporting evidence requirements.
• Coordinate statutory accounts, tax returns, tax reporting, tax audits, transfer pricing reviews, and tax risk assessments with internal teams and outsourced providers.
• Partner with external statutory auditors to deliver timely audits and ensure all filing and reporting deadlines are met.
• Act as a key contact for local tax authorities, including the Italian Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate), and support company secretarial compliance where required.
• Drive process improvements, automation, and support legal entity restructuring, acquisition, or divestiture projects while managing activities within budget

Key relationships include:

• Global and regional accounting teams
• Corporate, direct, and indirect tax teams
• Business Finance and divisional business units
• External Reporting, Treasury, Finance Operations, and Internal Audit
• External statutory auditors
• Outsourced accounting, tax, and compliance service providers
• Company secretarial agencies and service providers
• Local tax authorities
• Statutory auditors and accountants

Required Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Italian statutory reporting and local compliance requirements.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in both English and Italian.
• At least two years' audit experience and proven statutory reporting experience.
• Experience in financial and management reporting, including working to monthly close timetables.
• Strong analytical, quantitative, and investigative skills, with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to interpret and present complex financial information clearly and meaningfully.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to build relationships across finance and non-finance teams.
• Ability to work independently, manage changing priorities, meet deadlines, and drive results in a team environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficient Excel skills.
• Experience using SAP or other in-house financial systems.
• Experience improving processes through automation, robotics, and digitalisation.

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What’s in it For You?

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• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
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• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. For Poland, the base compensation range for this role is 115,500 PLN - 214,500 PLN. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

About Us

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