Group Financial ControllerVerified as a real position

Who we’re looking for

• A qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent) with strong post-qualification experience in group accounting and consolidation.
• Experience with, or solid working knowledge of, IFRS as applied to group consolidation.
• Full professional English proficiency is a hard requirement — written and spoken — as the working language of the group.
• Demonstrable ownership of an external audit relationship and statutory reporting in a multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction group.
• Solid tax fluency across corporate income tax and indirect tax, with Czech tax experience (or the proven ability to lead a CZ-centred tax position) strongly preferred, and practical experience applying transfer pricing policy in an intercompany setting.
• A rigorous controls and balance sheet reconciliation mindset, with a track record of clean, substantiated balance sheets.
• Readiness to be a builder in an agentic finance environment — genuine enthusiasm for designing and supervising automated processes, and comfort owning the automation layer of the functions in scope.
• Clear, structured thinker able to codify accounting and tax judgement into explicit, repeatable rules.

What you’ll do

• Own the group consolidation and the integrity of the consolidated accounting record across all entities, including intercompany eliminations, FX translation and the group reporting calendar.
• Lead the month-end and year-end close as a controlled, repeatable process, setting the standard for accuracy, timeliness and auditability.
• Maintain and apply group accounting policy under the relevant reporting frameworks (including IFRS and local GAAP/HGB where applicable), and provide technical accounting judgement on non-routine transactions.
• Produce reliable numbers for board packs and statutory reporting, and act as the technical authority that other finance functions rely on for treatment questions.
• Lead the group tax agenda with a primary focus on the Czech Republic — Phrase a.s. Is the group’s principal operating and selling entity, and Czech corporate income tax, VAT and the relationship with the Czech tax authority and CZ tax advisors are the first priority of the role.
• Own the remaining group tax footprint across the other jurisdictions (corporate income tax, VAT and withholding tax for the German, UK, Irish, Spanish and US entities), coordinating local filings and managing the relevant external advisors.
• Take over ownership of the group’s existing transfer pricing mechanism. A robust, profit-split transfer pricing model is already in place — this role is not about implementing or redesigning the model, but about owning it, applying it consistently and driving its further automation.
• Embed the established transfer pricing policy into the day-to-day close — ensuring the IC matrix, intercompany pricing, calculations, settlements and supporting documentation are consistent, defensible and applied the same way across all entities.
• Provide tax input on new structures, intercompany arrangements and material transactions, escalating policy-level decisions appropriately.
• Own the external audit relationship and act as the primary point of contact for auditors across the group and its key statutory entities.
• Plan and manage the audit deliverable end to end — the prepared-by-client schedules, evidence, reconciliations and technical papers — and hold the timetable.
• Coordinate statutory accounts preparation across jurisdictions and resolve audit findings to closure.
• Own balance sheet integrity across the group: a complete, reconciled, substantiated balance sheet for every entity, every period.
• Define and enforce the reconciliation framework — ownership, frequency, materiality thresholds, review and sign-off — and ensure aged or unexplained items are cleared, not carried.
• Maintain the financial control environment and ensure compliance with statutory, tax and group policy obligations across all jurisdictions.
• Strengthen controls continuously, with a bias toward preventative, automated controls over manual after-the-fact checking.
• Own the automation layer. Take accountability for any layer of automation across group accounting, tax, transfer pricing, audit support and reconciliation — not merely consuming tools, but designing how the work gets done by agents.
• Design and supervise agents. Specify, test, supervise and continuously improve the AI agents that execute close, reconciliation, tax computation and compliance tasks, owning their accuracy and controls.
• Codify judgement into rules. Translate accounting and tax judgement into the explicit rules, thresholds and review points that let agents operate safely at scale, and keep them current.
• Operate as a builder, not just an operator. Treat every recurring manual process as a candidate for automation, and measure success by how much routine work is reliably executed by agents under proper control.
• Maintain control and auditability. Ensure that an agent-run process is more controlled and more auditable than the manual one it replaces — full traceability, clear human review points, and evidence an auditor can follow.

About the position

Phrase is the world's leading Language Intelligence Platform. We’re transforming global content operations with our AI-led platform to give people the content they need, in the language they speak. Whether it's for digital products like an app or website, marketing comms, legal literature, internal comms or customer service messaging, Phrase ensures that content always hits its mark by being on brand, consistent, and culturally relevant. Phrase has been recognized by Forrester analysts as a Leader in language technology and is also highly rated on independent software review site G2. We help the world’s biggest brands, including Uber, Shopify, Puma, Snowflake and Volkswagen, engage their customers at scale to accelerate growth. With a global team based in our offices, and remote colleagues across Europe, the UK, the US, and the APAC region, Phrase offers an international environment built on collaboration, innovation, and shared purpose.

Benefits

• Work experience in a successful and growing global SaaS company
• Be part of an international team in Europe, APAC, and the Americas
• Expert colleagues in their field who are determined to build the best localization platform on the market, creating a world where language never limits opportunity
• An agile work environment, where it is encouraged to take smart risks
• Take part in a culture full of trust, support and loyalty, where respectful and open feedback is valued, and diversity is fully embraced
• A positive, open-minded, and innovative atmosphere
• Support in your professional development and personal career goals
• 4 Company holidays additional to your regular holidays (1 day per quarter where the entire company is off to celebrate our achievements).
• In addition, the company also provides employees with a Christmas break to allow you to spend time with family and friends without use of your vacation allocation.
• Your birthday is off because it is important to celebrate you as well.
• 2 Giveback days where you can support the local community, volunteer, and/or participate in charity events and activities.
• Professional and extensive onboarding.
• Enterprise Claude Licence
• Additional local benefits depending on the entity you're hired at, just ask your Talent Acquisition Partner