Financial Controller

About The Role

Our client is exclusively searching for an Interim Financial Controller on a 15-Month Fixed Term Contract to start in October, for a global leader in their field.

**Interim FC**
£95 to £110k DOE
Central London
Hybrid (3-4 days in)

This role leads the UK and Ireland core finance function, ensuring accurate financial reporting, robust controls, and effective planning while partnering with operational leaders to support commercial decision-making. Reporting to the CFO, the role leads and develops the Finance team and works closely with operational leaders and other business functions.

**The role:**

- Management of the finance team of 9
- Lead the month-end close and production of monthly group financial reporting
- Oversee the accurate upload of month end into the global financial reporting system
- Review of monthly financial movement schedules
- Ensure integrity of balance sheet
- Review of sales, transaction, revenue, and cost centre reports
- Lead and support the preparation of entity-level budgets and rolling forecasts for the group, including full profit and loss statements and capital expenditure
- Overseeing the annual accounting packs (under IFRS) and completion of the quarterly tax packs
- Overseeing and assisting with the preparation of statutory accounts
- Manage interim and year-end audit processes
- Overseeing corporation tax computations
- Overseeing completion of VAT returns
- Monitoring and review of client accruals and profitability
- Monitoring of external client P&L statements and internal client profitability analysis
- Monitor and ensure timely billing of external client P&L statements and ad hoc services
- Control and review of overhead expenditure invoices
- Monitoring of Capex

**You will have / be:**

- A Qualified Accountant: ACCA, ACA, CIMA or equivalent
- Lots of IFRS / UK statutory reporting understanding
- Excellent spreadsheet skills
- SAP would be an advantage
- Ability to prioritise competing demands
- Proven ability to develop, motivate and mentor finance team staff
- Experience of working with operational divisions
- Confidence to challenge existing practices constructively, identify opportunities for improvement and lead changes that strengthen finance processes
- Sound commercial judgement and the confidence to make decisions in the best interests of the company.