Finance & accounting

Hire an interim financial controller in Greece and Cyprus

The seat beneath the CFO that keeps the close, the management accounts and the controls running, filled for exactly as long as it is empty.

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Many mid-market companies in Greece and Cyprus have never had a controller: the accountant closes the statutory books and nobody produces management accounts. Where the seat does exist, it empties more awkwardly than any other in finance. The interim controller usually arrives for one of these:

A maternity cover or a long absence in the middle of the year
A new owner wants monthly reporting the company has never produced
An ERP go-live or an IFRS conversion that cannot wait for a hire
A first group consolidation across Greek and Cypriot entities

The interim financial controllers on Hellenic Talent are elite professionals who trained as auditors at Big 4 firms before moving into controlling, or ran finance as group finance directors and heads of FP&A. They know Greek accounting standards, IFRS and the myDATA obligations the books have to meet.

What does an interim financial controller actually do?

Own the monthly close and management accounts the business can plan on
Reconcile and clean the ledger, and fix the processes that keep dirtying it
Build the budget and the variance analysis the company never had
Keep compliance on track, myDATA included, with the external accountant and the auditors
Produce the group or fund pack on the calendar it is owed
Set the controls in the ERP so the numbers stay honest without supervision

How to choose the right interim financial controller

What to test in the first conversation, whoever you end up hiring.

A close by working day
Lays out their last month-end close day by day: who posted what, when the accruals landed, when it locked.
Reconciles myDATA to the ledger
Knows where the myDATA submissions and the general ledger drift apart, and how they reconcile the two each month.
Bridges Greek books to IFRS
Can explain the adjustments that turn Greek statutory accounts into the IFRS pack a group or a fund expects.