EF is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Finance Manager to join our EF Academy team.

The Finance Manager / Legal Entity Controller is accountable for the financial integrity of the legal entity structure, ensuring the completeness, accuracy, existence, and timeliness of all accounting records and financial reporting. The role serves as the primary point of accountability for statutory reporting, audits, tax, and regulatory matters, and acts as a finance partner to the business to ensure transactions and activities are properly assessed, recorded, and reported. This role requires managing complex multi-entity structures and applying strong technical accounting judgment.

Operating within a matrix organization, this role coordinates closely with shared service centers, business process owners, and central finance functions across multiple countries, while retaining end-to-end accountability for the legal entity. As the Finance Manager, you will have a unique opportunity to kick-start an international career in a truly global business and organization. The position requires the ability to work and communicate across numerous functional areas within EF. For the successful candidate, this position provides immense opportunities for growth and ownership, and opportunities to contribute to fast-paced business decisions and planning activities.

Key Responsibilities

Legal Entity Accounting & Financial Reporting

- Accountable for all accounting activities for the legal entity, including general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, intercompany transactions, and cash and treasury activities of a complex multi-entity structures

- Ensure the completeness, accuracy, existence, and timeliness of all financial records and monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements, in partnership with shared service centers

- Review and approve financial results, providing clear explanations of variances, risks, and key judgments

- Lead entity-level forecasting and projection processes, including monitoring actuals vs projections and providing clear insights to stakeholders

Controls, Compliance & Risk

- Own the legal entity control environment, ensuring adherence to accounting policies, internal controls, and regulatory requirements

- Identify, assess, and escalate accounting, compliance, and financial risks in a timely manner

- Apply accounting judgment on complex or non-routine transactions, in coordination with central accounting or technical experts as needed

Audit, Tax & Regulatory Matters

- Serve as the primary point of contact for external auditors, coordinating and managing statutory and internal audits

- Oversee tax, VAT, and regulatory filings, ensuring compliance with local laws and transfer pricing requirements

- Coordinate with tax advisors and central tax teams, ensuring accurate and timely submissions

Business Partnering

- Act as a finance partner to the business, supporting accurate and timely capture of business activities, contracts, and transactions

- Provide guidance to business stakeholders to ensure activities are structured and executed in line with accounting, tax, and regulatory requirements

- Proactively engage with the business to prevent downstream accounting or compliance issues

Process Excellence & Transformation

- Work effectively within a matrix organization, coordinating with shared service centers, Business Process Owners, and central finance teams

- Retain accountability for outcomes while leveraging global processes and standardized solutions

- Support continuous improvement of transactional and reporting processes, addressing gaps, inefficiencies, and control weaknesses

- Manage and coach an international team to ensure quality and timeliness of deliverables, including identifying gaps in execution and providing corrective guidance

Governance & Corporate Matters

- Support Board of Directors meeting preparation, including statutory financial materials and disclosures

- Support corporate governance and structural matters, including regulatory and legal entity-related requirements

What This Role Is Accountable For

- Integrity of the legal entity’s financial statements

- Successful completion of audits and regulatory filings

- Clear ownership of accounting outcomes in a matrix environment

- Effective partnership with the business to ensure accurate financial representation of activities

About you
We are continuously searching for ambitious, driven and enthusiastic Managers, to join our strong network of Finance professionals across the world. EF is a dynamic and entrepreneurial company, looking for independent responsible personalities with an international mindset.

Requirements

- Minimum 5 years of accounting experience

- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting / Finance / Business Administration/ Finance or similar

- Professional accounting qualification (e.g., CPA, ACCA, CA, or equivalent) and Big 4 audit experience preferred

- Experience with Oracle Fusion is an advantage

- Open-minded, solution-oriented and driven

- Effective in presenting information and reports clearly and credibly

- Strong analytical, organizational and time management skills

- Flexible and able to multitask / proactive and flexible

- Strong communication and social skills and with all levels of management.

- Proven ability to initiate and drive change for continuous improvement.

- Self-starter with strong business judgment and the ability to operate independently

- The ability to thrive in an international and fast-paced environment

Why Join EF?

- International Exposure: Be part of a truly global organization with career growth opportunities worldwide.

- Entrepreneurial Culture: Work in an environment that values initiative, innovation, and ownership.

- Career Development: EF invests in continuous learning and career progression.

- Dynamic Work Environment: No two days are the same—adaptability and creativity are key.

- Collaborative Team: Join a high-energy, supportive team that balances professionalism with camaraderie.

About EF
At EF we believe that the world is better when people try to understand one another. Since 1965, we have helped millions of people see new places, experience new cultures, and learn new things about the world and about themselves. Our culturally immersive education programs—focused on language, travel, cultural exchange, and academics—turn dreams into international opportunities.

When you join EF, you join a multicultural and diverse community working across more than 600 schools and offices in 50 countries, all with one shared mission of opening the world through education. Whoever you are, whatever you are passionate about—we welcome you and want you to bring that to work every day. EF is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to inclusion and belonging across race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, caste, parental status, identity, experience and everything else that makes you unique.

Founded in Sweden in 1965, EF has schools and offices around the world, including hubs in Boston, London, Mexico City, São Paulo, Shanghai, Stockholm, Zürich, and more. Learn more at https://ef.com.

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