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Business Unit Controller

Posted on June 11, 2025

Ka, India
0 - 0 USD (yearly)

Full Time

Business Unit Controller, Finance - Corporate Accounting & Controllership

Are you a finance/Accounting professional with strong interest and experience into accounting and Tax principles? If yes, this role for our statutory controllership team holds the right opportunity to join our team and meet our purpose to inform the way forward.

The jobholder is responsible in all aspects of accounting for an entity or a group of entities, work with 3rd Party providers for statutory and tax reporting, yearend submissions, and other accounting areas. The objective is to ensure compliance with Thomson Reuter’s Accounting policies and Local Tax & GAAP requirements.

The role involves:

Managing the tax compliance activities of Thomson Reuters' India entities as assigned.
Acting as a key contact with outsourced professional accounting and compliance service providers, tax agents and auditors.
Delivering excellent tax compliance and statutory compliance operations, and financial accounting and control oversight of all assigned Thomson Reuters legal entities.

The jobholder is expected to have the ability, eagerness and drive to work within a wide network of colleagues, departments and outsourced services in order to deliver a world-class accounting and compliance operation.

About the Role:

In this opportunity as Business Unit Controller , you will be responsible for:

Stewardship and review of tax accounts of assigned entities for both group and local financial reporting compliance requirements.
Maintenance of key SOX controls and SOX evidentiary requirements.
Ensure appropriateness of controls for internal and external compliance.
Monitor the month-end close process for assigned entities with respect to tax accounts and ensure that critical tax payments and computations and reconciliation obligations are met.
Manage the relationship with departments of Global and Regional Tax, Business Finance, External Reporting, Internal Audit, Treasury, Finance Operations, Divisional Business Units, and external statutory auditors and outsourced professional service providers.
Manage all tax compliance requirements for assigned entities, including:

Oversight and review of the preparation and delivery of advance tax payments, tax returns by outsourced professional service providers or in-house tax teams.
internal tax reporting;
supporting tax audits, transfer pricing reviews, tax risk assessments, and implementation of tax strategies;
Ensure all filing and reporting deadlines are met.

Plan for and support all monthly, quarterly and year-end tax provisioning and group reporting.
Take an active role in legal entity (or divisional) restructuring projects and acquisition or divestiture projects for the sub-region and ensure that entities and businesses either conform with or are integrated into Thomson Reuters accounting and finance controls and processes.
Plan for and deliver all operational requirements of assigned entities within cost budgets.

About You:

You’re a fit for the role of Business Unit Controller if your background includes:

Essential Technical Skills:

Strong SAP (or similar ERP), and Microsoft Office skills.
Strong data analytical skills and ability to translate data requirements for automation opportunities (Alteryx, Power BI or similar).
Strong control mindset and risk assessment and articulation skills

Professional Skills & Competencies:

Effective communication via emails and presentations.
Ability to translate accounting and tax concepts into practical day-to-day actions.
Ability to drive results and manage multiple priorities across organizational, geographical and cultural boundaries.
Ability to work in an ever-changing business environment and be agile.

Education/ Certifications:

Professional accountancy or finance qualification (CPA, CMA, CA/ICWA, MBA (Fin) or similar) with extensive post qualification experience and upward progression.

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What’s in it For You?

Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
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.
Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
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.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

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