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Financial Controller (Part Time) UK - Home Based
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Financial Controller – Part-Time
Hours: 20 hours per week, flexible structure
Location: Primarily home-based, with occasional travel
Salary: £35,000–£42,000 per annum (depending on experience)
Reporting to: CEO
Contract: Permanent, part-time
The Role
We are looking for an experienced, commercially minded Financial Controller to take ownership of the day-to-day financial management of the business. This is a senior, hands-on role suited to someone who enjoys an SME or growing-business environment and is comfortable operating autonomously.
You will own the complete finance cycle – from invoicing and cash collection through to management accounts, cash-flow forecasting, budgeting and group reporting – ensuring the business has accurate, timely information, strong controls and, critically, clear visibility of its current and future cash position. As part of a wider group, you will also represent the business at group-level finance meetings, presenting and explaining performance, cash position and forecasts to group stakeholders.
This is not a Finance Director or CFO position. We want someone happy to stay close to the detail and own operational finance, while bringing the experience, judgement and credibility of a senior finance professional.
Key Responsibilities
Management reporting & financial control
- Own the monthly management accounts and produce a clear pack covering P&L, balance sheet, cash flow and key metrics.
- Provide meaningful variance analysis against budget, forecast and prior periods.
- Maintain financial controls, balance-sheet reconciliations and general-ledger integrity; flag risks and anomalies early.
Invoicing & cash collection
- Own end-to-end customer invoicing, ensuring invoices are accurate, prompt and in line with contracts and agreed pricing.
- Own the accounts-receivable ledger, allocate and reconcile receipts, and proactively drive collection of outstanding balances.
- Produce aged-debt reporting, monitor debtor days, and escalate collection risks early.
- Resolve billing and payment queries, working with commercial colleagues to remove blockers to invoicing and cash collection.
Cash management & cash-flow forecasting
- Own the day-to-day cash position and maintain an accurate rolling short- and medium-term cash-flow forecast.
- Give clear visibility of expected receipts, supplier payments, payroll, tax and other significant movements; reconcile forecast against actuals.
- Identify cash pressures, shortfalls or timing risks early and escalate to the CEO; model the cash impact of commercial, operational and investment scenarios.
- Provide cash-flow forecasts and commentary for group reporting, and work with leadership to optimise working capital.
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Budgeting & forecasting
- Lead the annual budget with the CEO and leadership team, and maintain rolling P&L, balance-sheet and cash-flow forecasts.
- Update forecasts for actual performance, explain significant variances, and support scenario planning and financial modelling.
- Help management understand the financial implications of changes in revenue, costs, headcount and investment.
Group reporting & stakeholder management
- Own financial reporting into the group, accurate and complete, delivered to agreed timetables.
- Present and explain performance, cash position, forecasts and KPIs at group finance meetings; respond to group queries.
- Ensure alignment between local management reporting and group requirements, and attend occasional face-to-face group meetings.
Commercial finance
- Act as a trusted financial partner to the CEO and leadership team, translating financial information into practical commercial insight.
- Support pricing, margin and profitability analysis, provide input into investment and commercial decisions, and help develop KPIs.
Statutory, tax & external relationships
- Coordinate year-end accounts as primary contact for external accountants and auditors.
- Oversee VAT, corporation tax and other compliance, working with external advisers where appropriate.
- Manage relationships with banks, accountants, auditors and other finance-related third parties, ensuring records meet statutory and regulatory requirements.
Finance operations
- Maintain oversight of accounts payable, supplier payments and payroll-related financial reporting.
- Ensure effective month-end processes and reconciliations, and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, automation and reporting as the business scales.
About You
You will be an experienced Financial Controller, Head of Finance or senior finance professional comfortable taking genuine ownership of the finance function in an SME or growing business. You will ideally have:
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification, or equivalent experience.
- Significant experience in a Financial Controller, Head of Finance or similar senior role, with strong management accounting, budgeting and forecasting experience.
- Strong practical experience of cash management, cash-flow forecasting and working-capital management, including ownership of invoicing, AR and collections.
- Excellent understanding of financial controls and accounting principles, gained in an SME, entrepreneurial or growth environment.
- The credibility to present financial performance and forecasts to senior stakeholders at both company and group level; experience of group / group-company reporting is advantageous.
- Strong commercial awareness, the ability to communicate clearly with non-finance colleagues, and a pragmatic, hands-on approach across strategic and detailed work.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to operate independently in a predominantly remote environment.
- Experience within a SaaS, technology or recurring-revenue business is advantageous but not essential.
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What Success Looks Like
You will give the CEO, leadership team and wider group confidence that the finance side of the business is well controlled, accurately reported and forward-looking. Specifically:
- Invoices are raised accurately and on time; debt is actively managed and cash collected in line with agreed terms, with clear visibility of aged debt and collection risks.
- The current cash position is understood at all times, and cash-flow forecasts give an accurate, regularly updated view of future liquidity, with pressures identified early.
- Management accounts are accurate and available promptly each month; group reporting is accurate, timely and confidently presented.
- Budgets and forecasts are realistic, controls are robust and proportionate, and statutory, tax and year-end requirements are well managed.
- The CEO and leadership team have clear, commercially useful information on which to make decisions, and finance processes become increasingly efficient and scalable.
Working Pattern & Location
This is a permanent, part-time position of approximately 20 hours per week, primarily home-based, and we are open to discussing how the hours are structured. There will be regular virtual meetings with the wider group and occasional travel for face-to-face meetings. We are more interested in the right experienced individual than a rigid working pattern – the role would particularly suit a senior finance professional seeking a substantive part-time position with genuine ownership, visibility and influence.
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