Prestige Talent Partners
Financial Controller
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Financial Controller
Reporting to: Managing Director (UK)
Location: West Yorkshire
£65,000 - £75,000 Basic
Pension and benefits package
About the Role
Our client is seeking a Financial Controller to lead financial management, control, reporting and compliance across their UK and Irish businesses. This is the lead finance role within the UK and Irish operations, providing accurate financial information, commercial insight and strategic support to the CEO.
A key part of the role is maintaining strong working relationships with the senior leadership team, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting.
Key Working Relationships
- CEO
- Fractional CFO
- Senior Management Team
- External Auditors
- Banks and Financial Institutions
- HMRC and other regulatory bodies
- Customers and Suppliers
Key Responsibilities
- Financial Management & Reporting: Prepare monthly management accounts and analysis, ensure timely and accurate month-end/year-end close, produce financial reports, KPIs and forecasts, maintain general ledger integrity, deliver balance sheet reconciliations and robust controls, and coordinate annual statutory accounts and audits.
- Budgeting & Forecasting: Lead the annual budgeting process, prepare rolling forecasts and cash flow projections, monitor performance against budget, and provide actionable financial analysis to support business decisions.
- Business Partnering: Support the CEO and management team with financial insight, analyse profitability by customer, product range and distribution channel, challenge costs, identify efficiencies, and evaluate business cases and investment proposals.
- Cash Flow & Working Capital Management: Manage cash flow and liquidity requirements, monitor debtor and creditor performance, optimise working capital and inventory management, and oversee banking relationships and treasury activities.
- Compliance & Governance: Ensure compliance with UK accounting standards, tax regulations and statutory requirements (including VAT, Corporation Tax and PAYE), maintain a strong internal control environment, and support risk management and business continuity planning.
- Systems & Process Improvement: Drive improvements in financial systems and reporting processes, support ERP and business system developments, enhance reporting automation and data quality, and leverage AI technologies to automate routine finance activities and support scalable business growth.
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Essential Qualifications
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with strong technical accounting knowledge
Essential Experience
- Minimum 5 years' experience in a senior finance role within an SME environment, ideally in a fast-paced business which has a direct-to-consumer / ecommerce element as well as selling to retailers.
Essential Skills
- Strong financial and commercial acumen, with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Advanced Excel and financial systems capability, with strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to operate both strategically and hands-on, with effective relationship-building abilities
Personal Attributes
- High integrity and professionalism, commercially minded with strong business awareness
- Proactive and self-motivated, detail-oriented while maintaining a strategic perspective
- Comfortable working in a dynamic SME environment, collaborative and capable of influencing at all levels, with strong cross-cultural communication skills
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