.ISP Financial Controller - Portugal Role ProfileBased in Lisbon, PortugalPurpose of RoleThe ISP Financial Controller - Portugal position reports into the Regional Finance Director, Iberia. The individual is responsible for ensuring all financial and tax information is controlled and accurately reported, in accordance with strict deadlines, to satisfy all internal and external reporting requirements for all legal entities in Portugal.Key ResponsibilitiesMonth Close and Statutory ReportingCoordinate the monthly close process, for all schools in Portugal, ensuring reporting deadlines are met, in accordance with the ISP Group requirements.Review and control to ensure financial transactions are recorded accurately in the ISP Group transactional and consolidation system Netsuite, in accordance with IFRS reporting standards.Produce timely financial statements, P&L, Balance sheet and cash flows, in a statutory format, including regular reconciliation to internal management reporting and local accounts.Conduct semiannual reviews of balance sheet movements, providing useful explanations for significant variances.Review intercompany and intracompany balances, to ensure full counterparty elimination on regional and group consolidation.Control and C Financial Control and ComplianceEstablish and maintain an adequate internal control and compliance environment to ensure external and internal reporting is free of material misstatement.Conduct and coordinate quarterly reviews of balance sheet reconciliations and movements, providing useful explanations for significant variances.Establish, report and maintain strong control around credit collections for the schools.Be the first point of contact with ISP Group and local auditors and coordinate the completion of prepared information for the Year end audits for the ISP Group and for the local accounts.Ensuring that there is a clearly documented reconciliation of statutory accounts to management accounts for EBITDA and retained profit.Monitor and follow up on external audit issues and implement recommended improvements.Ensure accounting treatment is consistent and aligned with Group accounting policies. Where there are local differences, maintain a reconciliation of locally reported figures to Group reported.Ensure all external statutory, financial and tax filings are made in accordance with required deadlines.Ensure that internal audits are fulfilled with the required deadlines.Ensuring that all payments to suppliers and the payroll have been properly reviewed, posted correctly and executed in line with the group authorization limits.Ensuring that group authorization limits are always followed.Ensuring that there is adequate segregation of duty controls in place to prevent fraud.Ensuring that all legal documents are properly fulfilled, signed and archived.Cash Flow, Debtors and CapexResponsible for ensuring that local cash management is optimised.Record and report local bank balances regularly