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Financial Controller Required
Financial Controller required to join a leading maintenance/refurbishment contractor. The Financial Controller will have full ownership of a group finance function, direct board exposure, and real influence over how the business is run. Ideal for a hands-on Financial Controller who wants ownership rather than a big team to manage.
Our client is an established multi-trade property maintenance and construction contractor, with a turnover approaching £10m, around 80 staff, working on long-term frameworks with local authorities, housing associations, and national institutional clients. Purchase invoice capture and bank reconciliation run through AI-driven systems integrated with Xero, so this role is about oversight, exception handling, and analysis, not data entry.
The Financial Controller Role:
- Produce all management and statutory reporting across the group
- Run payroll and payments
- Work alongside our Accounts Assistant on credit control
- Act as the primary finance contact for the board, our lender, and our external accountants
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We retain an external practice for year-end review and tax sign-off. Everything else is prepared in-house.
Financial Controller Duties:
- Own Xero across all group companies and produce monthly management accounts and a consolidated group pack within 10 working days of month end
- Oversee AI-driven invoice capture and reconciliation, resolving exceptions and refining coding rules
- Manage intercompany balances, recharges, and licensing arrangements between group entities
- Handle escalated credit control personally, own aged debt reporting, and drive down debtor days
- Reconcile applications for payment, certified values, and retentions
- Run monthly payroll in full for c.80 employees, including pensions, auto-enrolment, and P11Ds
- Produce contract and department level margin reporting alongside contract managers and surveyors
- Manage WIP, accruals, retentions, and revenue recognition on long-term contracts
- Maintain a rolling 13-week cash flow forecast and the annual budget
- Manage CIS end to end, VAT returns including the domestic reverse charge, and statutory accounts and corporation tax computations for external review
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The Financial Controller will ideally have:
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA), or exceptionally strong qualified-by-experience at Financial Controller level
- Construction or contracting sector experience, specifically CIS, VAT domestic reverse charge, retentions, and applications for payment
- Genuine hands-on credit control experience, not delegated and forgotten
- Comfortable as the only qualified finance person in the business, confident challenging directors and operational managers
- Advanced Xero across multiple entities, and experience preparing consolidated group accounts
- End-to-end in-house payroll experience
- Experience with invoice finance or asset-based lending facilities
- Experience with job costing or contract management ERP systems
- Exposure to transaction work such as refinancing, acquisitions, or due diligence
- Experience of public sector or housing association frameworks
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