CHEC
Financial Controller
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The Vacancy
Job Title: Financial Controller
Location: Fulwood, Preston
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37.5
We’re always looking for great talent to join our team and help achieve our ambitious goals and growth. We care about our people, and passionate about the future of healthcare and how CHEC can play an innovative part in making it great.
If you are care focused and looking to join an organisation that is thriving on success, then CHEC is your employer of choice! We have an exciting opportunity for a Financial Controller to join the Finance team.
About The Role
We are looking for an experienced finance leader to lead our management account’s function, ensuring high-quality reporting, inquisitive business partnering, strong financial controls, and efficient end-to-end finance processes.
The role will initially oversee management accounting and elements of transactional finance, drive process improvements, and support the Group Financial Controller in maintaining a robust control environment.
You will deliver timely financial insights, promote operational discipline, and support data-driven decision-making aligned with the group’s strategic goals
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We Are Looking For Someone Who Can
- Lead all finance operations, including management accounts, AP, bank recs and cash management
- Own and streamline month-end close, delivering accurate, timely, well-controlled reporting across entities
- Drive working capital performance: cashflow forecasting, payments, stock and banking
- Produce insightful consolidated monthly accounts aligned to business needs
- Understand cost of sales and GP across the business, and identify areas of improvement
- Deliver profitability reporting (site, service, cost centres) to support senior leadership decision-making
- Partner with department heads on budgets and forecasts
- Provide clear P&L and cashflow insights, identifying and driving profit improvements
- Strengthen financial controls through robust processes and reconciliations
- Support senior finance leaders with ad-hoc analysis and strategic projects
- Support audit and year-end processes, working closely with external auditors and internal team
What You’ll Bring To The Role
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with significant post-qualification experience
- Strong technical accounting expertise, including month-end close, financial reporting, and control environments
- Proven experience leading finance operations and driving process improvement in fast-paced settings
- Experience managing and developing finance teams with a focus on performance and service delivery
- Strong track record of business partnering with operational leaders and senior stakeholders
- Advanced Excel skills and strong capability with financial reporting tools
- Experience working with integrated finance/ERP systems
- Demonstrated ability to improve, automate, and digitise both systems and processes to increase efficiency and control
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Why work for us?
- 25 days holidays plus bank holidays
- Buy and sell annual leave scheme
- Annual Company Bonus scheme
- MediCash
- Refer a friend scheme
- Company pension
- Company sick pay scheme
- Life assurance scheme
- Bluelight Card- 100’s of discount and cashback options
- Performance review with a training and development plan
- Employee discounts portal
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