Financial Controller - Milton Keynes (3-4 days onsite) - Salary circa £90,000 to £100,000
Are you an experienced Financial Controller? Are you circa 10 years post qualified? Do you have experience with B2B contracts? If so, read on:
A Private Equity–backed, high-growth business services group is seeking a Financial Controller to play a critical role in scaling and professionalising the finance function. The business is executing an ambitious buy-and-build strategy, creating an exciting opportunity to shape finance operations, strengthen controls, and build a best-in-class finance team to support rapid growth and future exit.
This is a senior leadership role with broad ownership across financial control, reporting, governance and business partnering, alongside a key mandate to build and develop transactional and management accounting teams as the group continues to expand.
A bit more about the role....
As Financial Controller, you will take end-to-end ownership of financial control and reporting across a growing multi-entity group. You will ensure robust processes, strong governance and high-quality financial information to support senior leadership and PE stakeholders.
A core element of the role will be designing, building and leading your own finance team, covering transactional finance (AP & AR) as well as management accounting, creating scalable structures and processes fit for a PE environment.
Key Responsibilities;
- Identify and resolve accounting, control and process issues across the group
- Oversee finance transactions, consolidations and intercompany processes to ensure accuracy and compliance
- Lead the development and continuous improvement of accounting processes, controls and reporting standards
- Act as system owner for financial software, maintaining data integrity and scalable structures
- Manage internal and external audit relationships, acting as the primary point of contact
- Own robust month-end and period-end processes, including reconciliations, reviews and control sign-off
Reporting & Business Partnering
- Lead internal and external reporting, including statutory accounts and group reporting
- Own overhead budgeting, rolling forecasts and cashflow forecasting
- Translate complex financial information into meaningful insight for non-finance stakeholders
Leadership, Team Build & Wider Support
- Build, lead and develop a transactional finance function (AP & AR) and a management accounting team
- Design scalable team structures to support organic growth and acquisitions
- Assist with finance resourcing strategy and succession planning
A little bit about you....
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA)
- Strong post-qualification experience within a PE-backed, high-growth or multi-entity environment
- Proven experience across statutory reporting, financial control, forecasting and governance
- Demonstrated ability to build, manage and develop finance teams
- Confident communicator, able to influence senior stakeholders and non-finance leaders
- Detail-oriented, with a track record of improving processes and controls in scaling businesses
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