Broster Buchanan
Financial Controller
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Financial Controller Opportunity
We are delighted to be supporting a retail-facing business based in Peterborough who are looking for a Financial Controller who wants a step into a Finance Director position in the next 12 months.
The Financial Controller will report directly into the CFO, you will support the MD of a high-growth division of the organisation. The Financial Controller will provide strong financial leadership for a growing business, ensuring the finance function supports both day-to-day operational delivery and long-term strategic growth. The role will be responsible for delivering accurate, timely, and meaningful financial reporting, maintaining robust financial controls, and providing commercial insight to support informed decision-making across the organisation.
The successful candidate will be a confident and credible leader, able to balance strategic projects with the core financial disciplines of reporting, control, cash management, compliance, and team development. They will play a key role in strengthening the finance function so that it is scalable, well controlled, and capable of supporting continued business growth.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership and Business Partnering
- Directly support the leadership team, in defining and monitoring business strategy, planning, and decision-making.
- Partner with the leadership team to provide clear financial insight, constructive challenge, and practical recommendations.
- Support strategic projects, investment decisions, commercial initiatives, and growth plans through robust financial analysis and judgement.
- Translate financial performance into clear, actionable insight for both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
- Help prioritise activity across the finance function, balancing strategic projects with essential financial control, reporting, and compliance requirements.
- Build on an already strong and proactive relationship with the Managing Director as the priority stakeholder, ensuring clear challenge and practical support for business performance and decision-making.
- Work closely with the CFO to ensure appropriate alignment, escalation, and visibility across business performance, financial controls, risks, and strategic priorities.
- Develop models, interpret results, and engage stakeholders to support and guide commercial decision making.
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Financial Reporting, Control, and Governance
- Lead the delivery of monthly and annual financial reporting, ensuring outputs are accurate, timely, and supported by meaningful commentary.
- Maintain a strong financial control environment, including monthly balance sheet reconciliations, documented and appropriate approvals, payment controls, governance processes, and compliance with relevant business and finance policies.
- Oversee budgeting, forecasting, cashflow management, and performance reporting processes.
- Ensure reporting deadlines are met and that financial information is reliable, transparent, and suitable for senior-level decision-making.
- Identify financial risks, controls gaps, and process weaknesses, and ensure appropriate remedial actions are delivered.
- Oversee statutory reporting, audit preparation, tax compliance, and other regulatory requirements as needed.
Finance Operations and Continuous Improvement
- Ensure core finance processes operate efficiently, consistently, and with appropriate controls.
- Drive improvements in finance systems, processes, data quality, and reporting capability to support scalable growth.
- Champion automation, standardisation, and simplification where this improves efficiency, accuracy, or control.
- Establish clear rhythms, responsibilities, and expectations across the FRS finance team and their activities.
- Lead or support finance transformation projects, with strong planning, stakeholder engagement, and adoption of new ways of working.
Leadership and Team Development
- Lead, coach, and develop the finance team, setting clear objectives and standards for performance, accountability, and collaboration.
- Build capability within the team so that colleagues are empowered, appropriately supported, and able to deliver high-quality outputs.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, professional rigour, and constructive challenge.
- Ensure the finance function is well organised, resilient, and able to respond effectively to changing business priorities.
- Act as a role model for strong leadership behaviours, including clarity, ownership, accountability, integrity, and calm prioritisation.
Key Skills and Experience
- Fully ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified accountant, with robust technical finance capability.
- Proven experience in a senior finance role within a growing or evolving business.
- Strong understanding of financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cashflow management, controls, and audit processes.
- Commercially minded, with the ability to interpret financial performance and identify risks, opportunities, and practical actions.
- Experience in building financial models in excel using best practice structures and excel functionality to ensure robustness and reliability of modelling outputs.
- Experience leading finance teams and building capability, accountability, and confidence.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, challenge, and communicate clearly and appropriately to differing audiences across all levels.
- Comfortable operating in a dynamic environment where processes, structures, and priorities will continue to evolve.
- High standards of accuracy, judgement, confidentiality, and professional integrity.
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Personal Attributes
- Confident, professional, credible, and collaborative leadership style.
- Strategic thinker who remains grounded in the importance of strong financial control.
- Pragmatic, adaptable, and solutions-focused, with the ability to make progress in an evolving business while taking learnings from both challenging situations and successful outcomes to support an environment of continuous improvement.
- Clear communicator who can simplify complex financial information.
- Resilient, organised, and able to prioritise effectively under pressure.
- Curious and improvement-oriented in all aspects, with a commitment to building better ways of working.
Success Measures
- Accurate and timely financial reporting delivered consistently.
- Strong financial controls embedded and evidenced through effective governance and audit outcomes.
- Improved quality of financial insight, forecasting, and performance reporting.
- Successful delivery of agreed strategic finance projects without compromising core finance operations.
- Clear accountability, stronger team capability, and improved stakeholder confidence in finance.
- Finance processes, systems, and reporting are scalable, efficient, and fit for growth.
- Ability to create and maintain models to support commercial decision making, which are subsequently linked to actual performance to understand where assumptions may differ from reality.
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