International Financial Controller Dynatrace

Your role at Dynatrace

We're looking for a strategic, operationally minded International Financial Controller to serve as the second-in-command for our International Accounting team, someone who can act as a trusted deputy to our Senior Director and help shape the future of our global controllership.

Reporting directly to the Senior Director, International Accounting, you'll guide our international accounting teams across EMEA, APAC, and LATAM. In this role, you'll oversee complex accounting, statutory reporting, audits, compliance, transformation, and team leadership while driving operational excellence worldwide. If you're an ambitious leader who combines deep technical accounting expertise with exceptional leadership, business partnership, and change management capabilities, we'd love to have you on board.

You'll operate as a key partner and have the opportunity to grow into a future successor for our international accounting organization.

Key Responsibilities

Global Accounting Leadership

• Support the leadership of our international accounting team across EMEA, APAC, and LATAM.
• Act as a key deputy to the Senior Director, providing leadership coverage when needed.
• Drive consistent accounting practices, governance, and operational excellence across all regions.
• Partner with regional leaders to ensure accurate, timely financial reporting under US GAAP and local statutory requirements.
• Oversee monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities.

Statutory Reporting, Audit, and Compliance

• Lead the delivery of statutory financial statements across multiple jurisdictions.
• Oversee relationships with our external auditors and accounting service providers.
• Ensure compliance with local regulatory, tax, corporate, and filing requirements.
• Drive SOX compliance and continuously improve internal controls.
• Identify and mitigate accounting, compliance, and operational risks.

Transformation and Continuous Improvement

• Lead strategic finance transformation initiatives to keep us a step ahead.
• Drive the standardization and globalization of our accounting processes.
• Champion automation opportunities through finance technology and AI-enabled solutions.
• Support shared services, global process ownership, and operating model initiatives.
• Improve efficiency, scalability, and quality across our international accounting operations.

Business Partnership

• Partner closely with our FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Revenue, Legal, People & Culture (P&C), and Corporate Accounting teams.
• Provide accounting leadership on acquisitions, restructurings, entity integrations, and expansion activities.
• Support executive leadership with clear analysis, recommendations, and risk assessments.
• Influence decisions by balancing compliance requirements with commercial outcomes.

Team Leadership and Development

• Lead, coach, and develop a geographically dispersed team of managers and accounting professionals.
• Build a collaborative culture focused on accountability, teamwork, and continuous learning.
• Develop talent pipelines and succession plans for critical roles.
• Foster an environment that encourages innovation, ownership, and career growth.

Strategic Leadership

• Contribute to our long-term international accounting strategy.
• Assess organizational design, resource allocation, and future capability needs.
• Establish KPIs and performance metrics to improve operational effectiveness.
• Act as a visible leader across our broader Finance organization.

What will help you succeed

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• CPA, ACCA, Chartered Accountant, or equivalent professional qualification.
• 10+ years of progressive accounting leadership experience within a multinational organization.
• Extensive experience managing international accounting operations across multiple countries.
• Deep knowledge of US GAAP and statutory reporting requirements.
• Significant experience managing external audits and compliance programs.
• Proven experience leading teams through organizational change and transformation.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire large, geographically dispersed teams.

We'd love it if you have:

• Experience in a publicly traded technology or SaaS company.
• Experience supporting M&A integrations and global expansion initiatives.
• Familiarity with OneStream, NetSuite, Workiva, or similar finance technologies.
• Experience implementing shared services, outsourcing, or global process ownership models.
• Exposure to AI-enabled finance transformation initiatives

Why you will love being a Dynatracer

• Dynatrace is a leader in unified observability and security.
• We provide a culture of excellence with competitive compensation packages designed to recognize and reward performance.
• Our employees work with the largest cloud providers, including AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud, and other leading partners worldwide to create strategic alliances.
• You'll get to work at the forefront of innovation with Dynatrace Intelligence—the industry's first agentic operations system. Bringing together deterministic and agentic AI, it helps teams understand what's happening, why it matters, and what to do next— automatically.
• Over 50% of the Fortune 100 companies are current customers of Dynatrace.

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