Antonia Saunders Ltd
Financial Controller
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The Role
This role exists because finance leadership needs someone to properly run the engine room - a second-in-command who can take full ownership of the day-to-day and free up the Head of Finance to focus upward and outward. You'll be the person accountability sits with when the monthly figures need to land accurately and on schedule.
Two direct reports - a Finance Manager and a Senior Accountant - sit under you, with a combined team of roughly eight handling billing, management accounts and cash. Close, reporting and the wider control framework will be yours to shape and defend. In practice, you become the natural point of contact whenever the team needs a steer.
Expect the brief to widen as the business does. Cross-border complexity is already on the horizon, and whoever takes this on should find that prospect energising rather than off-putting. Commercial and strategic responsibilities will build over time, and a credible route to Head of Finance sits within reach for the right person - realistically inside one to two years.
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The Ideal Candidate
This brief is deliberately not aimed at a career Financial Controller who has settled into the seat. Our client wants someone earlier in that journey - roughly up to five years post-qualification - taking on the FC title for the first time, with the ceiling still clearly above them. Think driven, sharp, and comfortable making change happen, not just administering what's already there.
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Beyond that, we're looking for:
- A qualified accountant - this is essential and non-negotiable. ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification backed by genuine technical depth - comfortable across close, balance sheet control, audit and tax
- Approximately 1-5 years PQE
- Natural people skills, including with part-qualified staff who need developing as well as managing
- A process-and-systems mindset, ideally with some hands-on exposure to finance transformation or automation work
- The presence to talk numbers with senior people directly, without needing everything scripted in advance
- An instinct for turning data into a recommendation rather than just a report
- Prior exposure to professional services or a comparably fast, relationship-led setting is useful but not a prerequisite
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