Vistaria Merches Family Ventures
Financial Controller — Single Family Office (Founding Finance Hire)
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Financial Controller · London · Single Family Office
GBP 95,000 – 130,000 per annum (depending on experience) + benefits
A London-based single-family office is seeking a founding Financial Controller to build and own its finance function across a growing group of entities and asset classes.
This is a rare mandate for a qualified accountant who wants to build rather than maintain: the opportunity to establish the accounting, reporting, and control framework of a private investment office from the ground up, working in close partnership with the Principal and the office's external advisers. You will be the person who makes the numbers trustworthy — the backbone on which every investment and governance decision rests.
If you are a rigorous, discreet finance professional who takes pride in clean books, strong controls, and order brought to complexity, this is a genuinely foundational seat.
The Mandate
As Financial Controller, you will own the finance function end to end:
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- Establish and run the accounting, bookkeeping, and management-reporting framework across multiple entities.
- Produce timely, accurate management accounts, consolidations, and cash-flow reporting for the Principal and governance bodies.
- Own treasury, cash management, and banking relationships across jurisdictions.
- Manage the year-end process and act as the primary liaison with external accountants, auditors, and tax advisers.
- Design and enforce internal financial controls, approval processes, and record-keeping appropriate to a private office.
- Oversee payroll, expenses, and payments, working alongside the office's onboarding and HR partners.
- Build the finance infrastructure — systems and processes — to scale as the office grows.
Who We're Looking For
- A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) with substantial post-qualification experience.
- Background in a family office, private investment firm, professional practice, or a finance function with multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction complexity.
- Strong technical command of consolidation, management reporting, treasury, and financial controls.
- A builder's temperament — comfortable establishing process where little yet exists, and working hands-on.
- Exceptional attention to detail, discretion, and integrity; this is a role built on trust with a private principal.
- Familiarity with the UK tax and regulatory environment relevant to private wealth and investment vehicles is an advantage.
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Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary of GBP 95,000 – 130,000 per annum, depending on experience and qualification.
- Discretionary annual bonus.
- Employer pension contribution above the statutory minimum.
- Private medical insurance and life assurance cover.
- Professional membership fees and a continuing professional development / training budget.
- Generous annual leave and a hybrid working arrangement.
- London base.
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