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Financial Controller
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Role Purpose
The Financial Controller will lead the management accounts and accounts payable function, ensuring accurate, timely, and insightful financial reporting. The role requires a hands-on, technically strong qualified accountant with excellent attention to detail, strong financial control experience, and the ability to support both day-to-day finance operations and wider business decision-making.
Key Accountabilities
- Lead the preparation of monthly management accounts, including profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow reporting, and variance analysis.
- Ensure all balance sheet reconciliations, journals, and reporting outputs are accurate, complete, and delivered to deadline.
- Ensure that the Partner Reconciliations are completed every month, and that all Partner Draw and payments are fully understood and reconciled.
- Maintain strong financial controls, processes, and procedures across the finance function.
- Provide clear financial analysis and insight to support the Finance Director, Executive Board, and Heads of Department.
- Management and finance business partnering.
- Manage and mentor a small finance team, including management accounts and accounts payable.
- Oversee accounts payable processes, ensuring supplier payments, approvals, and controls are robust and accurate.
- Support budget and forecasting processes, including developing rolling forecasts and improving the annual budget process.
- Manage the annual audit and liaise with external advisors as required.
- Review monthly payroll reports prepared by HR and external providers, ensuring accurate and timely payment of salaries, pensions, and HMRC obligations.
- Manage and maintain appropriate financial controls for the banking, ensuring all access and rights are correct and appropriate.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of accounting, tax, and legal sector compliance requirements, including the Solicitors Accounts Rules where relevant.
- Deliver and support ad hoc finance projects as required by the Finance Director.
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- Fully qualified accountant ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent.
- Strong technical accounting knowledge and financial control experience. Proven experience preparing accurate management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations, and statutory reporting.
- Excellent attention to detail and high standard of accuracy.
- Strong analytical skills, with ability to explain financial information clearly.
- Strong ability to use Microsoft Excel, Power BI, and other tools to improve reporting and controls.
- Experience managing deadlines, priorities, and multiple workstreams.
- Confident working with senior stakeholders and supporting business decision-making.
- Experience managing or supporting a small finance team.
- Ideally you will come from a professional services, legal, accountancy practice, or partnership/LLP background.
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