Director, Financial Controller; Corporate

Hybrid, New York City, NY

Amer Sports is a global collective of iconic sports and outdoor brands, powered by a community of people who share a passion for authenticity, impact, and excellence. We bring together leading brands, talented teams, and a culture built on collaboration. If you’re looking for an environment where you can make an impact and grow your career, we invite you to explore the opportunity below.

We’re looking for a Director, Financial Controller to oversee Amer Sports Corporate and to be based out of our NYC office.

The Director, Financial Controller (Corporate) is a senior finance leader and key member of the Amer Sports controllership organization. This role serves as the primary steward of financial integrity across Amer Sports' corporate and group legal entities, ensuring accurate, complete, and compliant actual results in accordance with IFRS and internal accounting policies.

Operating at the intersection of Technical Accounting, GBS, and Brand Controllers, this role is the connective tissue of the ONE Finance accounting model. The Financial Controller - Corporate is responsible for operationalizing Group accounting policies across the enterprise, driving standardization and process improvement across the controllership community, and serving as a critical support to the CAO on all matters related to corporate controllership, governance, and audit.

This role is a newly created position designed to drive financial accuracy and integrity for the corporate entities, bridge policy-to-practice gaps across the brand controller network, and strengthen the CAO's ability to drive a consistent, high-integrity global close.

• Own end-to-end financial close for Amer Sports corporate legal entities, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of the P&L and balance sheet across all relevant entities.
• Ensure alignment between corporate entity results and the consolidated group financial statements; serve as the primary interface with the Consolidations team on intercompany balances, eliminations, and group reporting.
• Oversee recognition, documentation, and review of significant estimates, reserves, provisions, and accruals requiring management judgment; maintain balance sheet integrity through disciplined reconciliation oversight and timely resolution of aged or unusual items.
• Serve as the primary interface between corporate finance and GBS RTR teams, ensuring effective coordination and execution of close activities.
• Translate Group accounting policies into practical, actionable guidance and standard operating procedures applicable across Amer Sports' legal entity and brand structure.
• Partner with Technical Accounting to review and refine accounting policies, ensuring they reflect business realities and are operationally executable across brands and geographies.
• Serve as a first point of escalation for accounting policy questions raised by Brand Controllers, providing authoritative and consistent guidance grounded in IFRS.
• Prepare and review accounting position papers and memos for corporate-level transactions, coordinating formal documentation with Technical Accounting as appropriate.

• Act as the primary coordination point between the Corporate controllership function and Brand Financial Controllers across Arc'teryx, Salomon, Wilson, Atomic, and Peak Performance.
• Drive consistent application of Group accounting policy across the brand portfolio; lead enterprise-wide standardization of close processes, account reconciliation practices, and journal entry controls; identify deviations and implement corrective measures in partnership with Brand Controllers and the CAO.
• Partner with Brand Controllers on complex cross-brand or cross-entity accounting matters, including intercompany transactions, shared services allocations, and global estimates.
• Lead regular Brand Controller forums and cross-functional governance touchpoints, ensuring consistent communication and two-way visibility between corporate and brand finance teams.

• Maintain and enforce robust internal controls across corporate entities in alignment with SOX requirements and Amer Sports' controls framework.
• Partner with Risk & Controls, Internal Audit, and External Audit to ensure clean audit outcomes; support the CAO in all KPMG interactions related to corporate entity and group accounting matters.
• Drive remediation activities to…