Director, International Financial Compliance
Dublin, Ireland · Posted 4 months agoDescription
The International Entity Controller is responsible for the framework governing the Company’s legal entity accounting, statutory reporting, and regulatory compliance across all international jurisdictions. This leader ensures the Company’s entity structure operates within a disciplined control environment while delivering predictable statutory compliance, scalable reporting processes, and operational transparency across the legal entity structure.
The role also drives modernization of the statutory reporting and legal entity governance model, leveraging automation, standardized processes, and operational metrics to enable a scalable global controllership infrastructure. The role reports into the Vice President, Corporate Controller.
We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model.
Key Responsibilities
International Entity Governance
- Own the Company’s international legal entity governance framework, ensuring disciplined oversight of all international entities
- Maintain comprehensive entity compliance calendars, statutory governance requirements, and local regulatory obligations across jurisdictions
- Partner with Legal and Tax to support entity formation, restructuring, liquidations, and entity rationalisation initiatives
- Ensure the legal entity structure remains operationally efficient, compliant, and aligned with the Company’s global business model
- Partner with the Tax organization to support any applicable income and/or indirect (VAT) tax audits
Statutory Financial Reporting
- Oversee preparation and filing of statutory financial statements and regulatory filings across all international jurisdictions
- Ensure appropriate alignment between U.S. GAAP reporting and local statutory reporting frameworks (IFRS and local GAAP where required)
- Maintain strong oversight of local statutory audit processes, ensuring consistent quality and predictable completion timelines
Intercompany & Cross-Border Accounting
- Partner with the Corporate Accounting / General Ledger team to drive the global framework for intercompany accounting, settlements, and cross-border funding activities
- Partner with Tax to operationalize transfer pricing policies and documentation requirements
- Oversee accounting for capital contributions, dividends, intercompany loans, and other cross-border financing and treasury initiatives
Global Statutory Audit Management
- Coordinate statutory audits globally across all jurisdictions
- Drive standardized audit readiness processes, documentation standards, and audit coordination practices
- Maintain strong relationships with local auditors and external service providers supporting statutory reporting
Legal Entity Structure Optimization
- Evaluate and optimize the Company’s global entity footprint, identifying opportunities to simplify structures, reduce compliance burden, and improve operational efficiency
- Support international expansion, acquisitions, and market entry initiatives by establishing appropriate legal entity and reporting structures
- Partner with Corporate Development, Tax, and Legal on post-acquisition entity integration and restructuring
Process Transformation & Automation
- Design and implement scalable statutory reporting processes that reduce manual effort and improve global compliance visibility
- Leverage ERP capabilities, workflow automation, and emerging technologies to modernize the global statutory reporting infrastructure
- Establish standardized templates, reporting frameworks, and governance models across jurisdictions
Operational Metrics & Controllership Infrastructure
Establish a disciplined operating model with clear performance metrics, including:
- Statutory filing timeliness across jurisdictions
- Statutory audit completion timelines
- Intercompany settlement cycle time
- Legal entity rationalization progress
- Compliance risk indicators and remediation tracking
- Develop dashboards that provide clear visibility into global statutory compliance and entity governance risks
Leadership & Cross-Functional Partnership
- Lead a global team responsible for international statutory reporting and legal entity accounting
- Partner closely with Corporate Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Legal, and regional finance leadership to support global operations
- Serve as the controllership subject matter expert for global entity governance and statutory risk management
Qualifications
- 12–15+ years of accounting experience, including leadership of international controllership or statutory reporting functions in a multinational public company
- Deep expertise in U.S. GAAP and international statutory reporting frameworks (IFRS and local GAAP)
- Proven experience managing global statutory audits and multi-jurisdiction compliance programs
- Strong knowledge of intercompany accounting, transfer pricing structures, and global capital flows
- Experience building scalable processes, governance frameworks, and automation initiatives in a multinational environment
- ACCA, CA, or CPA equivalent professional certification preferred
About MongoDB
MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.
Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.
To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!
MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.
MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.
REQ ID: 1273411621
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