Interim Financial Controller

Group Finance Controller

£80-95K DOE+ Bonus (18 month Contract)

Central London (Hybrid Working)

My client is a fin tech business and are looking for a Group Finance Controller for 18 months to cover maternity.

Duties Include:

• Owning the group consolidation and the preparation of group financial reporting, including reporting by function

• Owning monthly financial reporting, including automating functional reporting, implementing regional and product-level P&L reporting, and supporting financial KPI reporting aligned to agreed business strategies

• Preparing and reviewing management accounts in a multi-entity, multi-currency environment

• Managing and developing 2 direct reports, overseeing their workload and reviewing their output

• Reviewing the work of junior team members, providing quality control and developing the team

• Partnering with Commercial Finance to support reporting, analysis, and business decision-making

• Leading the audit transition to new auditor

• Owning statutory reporting and compliance across the group, including statutory accounts, audit deliverables, and lender and covenant reporting

• Acting as the senior point of escalation for the Financial Control team and representing finance with auditors, advisers and other external stakeholders

• Identifying and driving process improvements across the finance function

• Leveraging AI tools and supporting or leading AI-related projects and finance transformation initiatives to improve efficiency, automation, and process effectiveness across the finance function

• Getting stuck into ad hoc projects and analysis as priorities evolve - no two weeks look quite the same

Requirements:

• A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)

• Strong technical ground and excellent attention to detail

• Proven experience thriving in a fast-paced environment - comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and pace

• A self-starter who can hit the ground running with minimal hand-holding

• Comfortable being hands-on - preparing and producing as well as reviewing

• A genuine appetite for improving processes and project-managing change

• Strong financial and management accounting experience

• Experience preparing group reporting by function

• Exposure to multi-entity, multi-currency consolidation