JLL UK | UK Controller

Key responsibilities

• Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward.
• The role owns the UK statutory and US GAAP reporting control environment, leads a Controllership team based in London, and acts as a primary finance point of contact for UK business leadership, shared services, and global / regional Controllership.
• This is one of the most significant Controller roles in the EMEA region given the scale and complexity of the UK market.
• Using AI capabilities, we analyze your application for relevant skills, experiences, and qualifications to generate valuable insights about how your unique profile aligns with the specific requirements of the role you're pursuing.
• Own the UK close calendar and delivery, coordinating with the Shared Services Centre to ensure accuracy and timeliness across all UK entities.
• Review and approve judgmental and complex journal entries, topside adjustments, accruals, and payroll and bonus entries.
• Perform review controls over the balance sheet and P&L (month-over-month actuals) with variance commentary.
• Act as control owner for payroll and bonus reporting.
• Prepare and approve high-risk reconciliations; monitor reconciliation dashboards and drive resolution of aged items in line with global reconciliation policy.
• Monitor balance sheet risks and opportunities, escalating proactively to UK and regional leadership.
• Resolve intercompany disputes and approve fixed asset transactions, including additions, retirements, disposals, and transfers.
• Own review and sign-off of UK statutory financial statements (FRS 102) across the UK entity portfolio (currently fewer than 40 entities), prepared in coordination with the Statutory Audit Centre of Excellence.
• Serve as primary contact for the external auditor, including PBC lists, planning meetings, cadence calls, and resolution of audit findings.
• Own preparation and filing of Companies House annual accounts and confirmation statements.
• Own review and sign-off of all other statutory filings and reporting, examples being payment practices, office of national statistics reporting, government contract reporting.
• Deliver monthly, quarterly, and annual US GAAP reporting within JLL's global reporting matrix.
• Act as primary UK point of contact for global and regional Controllership on reporting matters.
• Develop and continuously improve month-end close processes to support both US GAAP and UK statutory timetables.
• Coordinate with the Tax function on UK tax compliance matters, including group VAT filings across a complex multi-entity VAT position, corporation tax, PAYE settlement agreement submission and other statutory tax obligations.
• Support Tax with information requests, documentation, and process input from a controllership and controls perspective, without assuming ownership of tax technical positions.
• Manage and develop a UK Controllership team of qualified accountants and trainees, including workload prioritisation, performance management, and career development.
• Deliver technical training and updates to the team on accounting policy, process, and control changes.
• Serve as the bridge between Controllership and Finance Business Partnering, ensuring controls and processes run smoothly across the wider UK Finance function.
• Monitor and help develop the performance of the Shared Services Centre supporting the UK.

Qualifications

• ACA or ACCA qualified required; US CPA or other international equivalent will be considered, particularly combined with UK statutory and Companies House experience.
• Experience reporting within a large, listed or multinational group; working knowledge of both UK GAAP/FRS 102 and US GAAP strongly preferred.
• Proven experience managing and developing a team.
• Experience working with shared service centres, with the ability to hold providers accountable to quality and service standards.
• Strong stakeholder relationship management skills, with the credibility to operate as a peer to UK business leadership and global/regional Controllership.
• Proactive communicator, with a track record of surfacing risks and challenges to leadership before they escalate.
• Experience with Oracle/PeopleSoft, OneStream, and Tableau or comparable financial systems.
• Excellent Excel skills and strong organizational discipline to manage competing deadlines.

JLL UK

JLL UK is an employer hiring in India.

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in London, Norfolk, Birmingham and Hampshire.