Group Financial Controller

<p>We’re a global team of over 400 people, working together to push the boundaries of open-source technology and multi-cloud solutions. Our vision is to help developers, builders, and creators bring their ideas to life with speed and simplicity, by providing a cloud data platform that makes open-source databases, search, streaming, and application infrastructure easily accessible to everyone. </p> <h2><strong>The Role</strong></h2> <p>Do you find the month-end close and revenue accounting exciting? Then keep reading. What we’re offering is a full ownership role. The consolidated financials, the audit relationship, the revenue recognition policy – they all sit with you. But ownership here means more than signing off on the numbers. Every process you inherit, you improve. This is an opportunity with real accountability and a genuine mandate to transform how a scaling international company does financial reporting.</p> <h4><strong>Your Mission: Own the Numbers the World Sees</strong></h4> <p>You will be Aiven's primary owner of group consolidation and financial reporting. This is a technical leadership role, not a coordination role. You’ll own the integrity of our consolidated financials, our IFRS compliance, our revenue treatment, and our audit outcomes.</p> <p>You will sit inside a Finance team that is serious about doing things right — and equally serious about doing them efficiently. That means you bring both depth and pace.</p> <p>In concrete terms, this means you'll:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Own group accounting end to end:</strong> Prepare and review the consolidated financial statements under IFRS, maintain group accounting policies, and ensure consistency and accuracy across all entities. You are the standard-setter.</li> <li><strong>Lead the monthly close and IFRS reporting cycle:</strong> Drive the month- and quarterly-end close process, including preparation and review of IFRS-specific entries, with supporting variance analysis and clear commentary. You keep the process tight and the output right.</li> <li><strong>Own revenue accounting and controlling: </strong>Ensure revenue is recognised accurately and consistently under IFRS 15 across Aiven's product portfolio, maintain the revenue recognition policy, review contract terms for accounting implications, and own the deferred revenue reconciliation. You are the control point between what the business books and what the financials show.</li> <li><strong>Be the primary counterpart for external audit:</strong> Own the audit relationship from planning through completion. You coordinate, you prepare, you review, and you resolve. Audit findings do not linger.</li> <li><strong>Navigate tax at group level:</strong> Own the financial statement representati