Halliday Marx
Financial Controller
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Halliday Marx are 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
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- 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.
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