Cedar
Financial Controller

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High-end Luxury Retail
Financial Controller
Central London
To £75,000
This rapidly growing, entrepreneurial luxury consumer business operates at the premium end of its market and has an impressive reputation for quality, delivery, and customer experience. Founder led, the company has built a highly engaged client following and is now entering an exciting new phase of growth. Ambitious and highly commercial, this is a fast-paced business with significant momentum and aspirations to become one of the standout names in its sector.
It is now seeking a talented Financial Controller to play a key role in the ongoing growth plans.
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Reporting to the founder, the role will include:
- Implement the appropriate level of controls and processes to enable timely and accurate financial reporting
- Create management information, highlighting risks and opportunities
- Deliver analysis around business performance, customer activity, and stock
- Use automation to simplify accounting tasks
- Build and own the budgeting, forecasting, and planning processes
- Identify and track KPIs
- Establish a fit-for-purpose framework of compliance and governance whilst being sensitive to the commercial environment
- Manage the outsourced accounting partner relationship


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Required candidate profile:
- ACA qualified
- Financial reporting & FP&A experience
- Experience with an owner managed business, either within industry or from a client perspective when in practice
- Confident, robust, and commercially minded
- High level of intellectual horsepower
- Comfortable getting stuck / being hands on
- Happy to be both in the detail and actively involved in strategic conversations
- Will have worked with a fast-paced, consumer facing, scaling business
We are happy to consider candidates for whom this would be a step up into their first Financial Controller role.
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