Talentedge
Financial Controller
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Financial Controller | High-Growth FMCG Business
£70,000 – £75,000
Bromley | Hybrid
Talentedge is partnering with a fast-growing FMCG business to appoint a Financial Controller.
The business has an established product portfolio, a growing customer base and ambitious plans for its next stage of growth. With increasing complexity across inventory, supply chain, customer profitability and margin management, they are looking for a commercially minded Financial Controller to take ownership of the finance function.
This is a broad role combining financial control, FP&A and commercial finance, with significant exposure to senior leadership and the wider business.
The Role
You’ll take ownership of the day-to-day finance function while providing the commercial insight needed to support continued growth.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Ownership of monthly management accounts and reporting
- Budgeting, forecasting and cash flow management
- Gross margin, pricing and product profitability analysis
- Customer and channel profitability reporting
- Working closely with Sales, Operations and Supply Chain teams
- Inventory, stock and working capital management
- Analysis of COGS, supplier costs and margin movements
- Supporting pricing decisions and promotional activity
- Improving month-end, controls and financial processes
- Balance sheet ownership and reconciliations
- Managing year-end audit and statutory reporting
- Developing management information and KPI reporting
- Supporting senior leadership with commercial decision-making
- Driving systems, reporting and process improvements as the business scales
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Ideally, you will:
- Be ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified
- Have experience within FMCG, food & beverage, consumer products or another product-led business
- Understand inventory, gross margin, COGS and working capital
- Have strong management accounting and financial control experience
- Be commercially minded and comfortable challenging non-finance stakeholders
- Have experience with budgeting, forecasting and cash flow management
- Enjoy working within a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
- Be comfortable balancing hands-on finance with higher-level commercial analysis
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Why Join?
This is an opportunity to join a growing FMCG business at a stage where finance can have a genuine impact on how the company scales.
You’ll work closely with senior leadership and play a key role across margin management, commercial performance, supply chain finance and financial control, while helping develop a more sophisticated finance function.
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