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Financial Controller
London | Reporting to the Group Financial Controller
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified accountant with 1-3 years' post-qualification experience to join a fast-paced, international business at the heart of its finance function, with genuine opportunity to develop and progress.
The role has arisen due to an internal promotion and offers an ambitious individual the chance to take ownership of two central components of the Group's finance function, while becoming a valued business partner to the wider organisation.
Key components of the role:
- Financial Controller responsible for the Group's main trading entity
- Owning the cash flow forecast and liquidity planning
- Wider responsibilities including business partnering, developing colleagues, and driving process and systems improvement
Key Responsibilities
You'll take financial ownership of a key trading business, including:
- Preparing monthly management accounts for allocated entities
- Preparing monthly P&L accounts and detailed run-rate analysis
- Reviewing, understanding and approving purchasing requests
- Approving entity costs and payments
- Maintaining fixed asset and lease registers
- Preparing monthly reconciliations and month-end journal entries (prepayments, fixed assets, accruals, intercompany, FX gains/losses, central recharges)
- Owning statutory reporting and compliance for allocated entities, liaising directly with auditors
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You'll also own the Group cash flow forecast tool, including:
- Maintaining a short-term cash flow and treasury forecast model to drive liquidity management
- Using supplier and customer cash flow insight to inform key management decisions across the business
As Business Partner to certain departments, working closely with the Executive team, you'll:
- Build and manage relationships between departments and Finance
- Understand departmental cost drivers and identify areas for financial improvement
- Support the annual planning and budgeting process
- Provide ad hoc guidance
You'll also assist with system and process improvement projects, and take on other reasonable duties as required.
About You
Essential:
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
- Circa 2 years' post-qualification experience
- Strong technical accounting knowledge under IFRS
- Solid Excel skills
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What will make you successful:
- Comfortable in a fast-changing, dynamic environment
- Enjoy translating financial information into practical commercial insight
- Naturally curious, with a drive to improve systems rather than simply operate them
- Able to build credibility with both technical and non-finance stakeholders
- Happy balancing strategic thinking with hands-on delivery
- Experience mentoring or supporting junior finance colleagues (or a natural ability to do so) is a plus
Desirable:
- Experience in telecoms, technology or similar sectors
- Exposure to private equity-backed businesses
- Experience with NetSuite
- Experience producing statutory accounts from trial balance, with involvement in external audits
Our client promotes a collaborative, well-balanced working environment — offering strong employee benefits, flexible working (2 days in office and option to work remotely for 2 weeks per year) rewards for performance, and opportunities to give back to local communities.
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