Halliday Marx
Financial Controller
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Group Finance Controller
£85-95K + Bonus (18 month Contract)
Central London (Hybrid Working)
My client is a fintech business and are looking for a Group Finance Controller for 18 months to cover maternity.
Duties Include:
- Owning the group consolidation and the preparation of group financial reporting, including reporting by function
- Owning monthly financial reporting, including automating functional reporting, implementing regional and product-level P&L reporting, and supporting financial KPI reporting aligned to agreed business strategies
- Preparing and reviewing management accounts in a multi-entity, multi-currency environment
- Managing and developing 2 direct reports, overseeing their workload and reviewing their output
- Reviewing the work of junior team members, providing quality control and developing the team
- Partnering with Commercial Finance to support reporting, analysis, and business decision-making
- Leading the audit transition to new auditor
- Owning statutory reporting and compliance across the group, including statutory accounts, audit deliverables, and lender and covenant reporting
- Acting as the senior point of escalation for the Financial Control team and representing finance with auditors, advisers and other external stakeholders
- Identifying and driving process improvements across the finance function
- Leveraging AI tools and supporting or leading AI-related projects and finance transformation initiatives to improve efficiency, automation, and process effectiveness across the finance function
- Getting stuck into ad hoc projects and analysis as priorities evolve - no two weeks look quite the same
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- A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)
- Strong technical ground and excellent attention to detail
- Proven experience thriving in a fast-paced environment - comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and pace
- A self-starter who can hit the ground running with minimal hand-holding
- Comfortable being hands-on - preparing and producing as well as reviewing
- A genuine appetite for improving processes and project-managing change
- Strong financial and management accounting experience
- Experience preparing group reporting by function
- Exposure to multi-entity, multi-currency consolidation
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