Job Title: Interim Financial Controller
Duration: 6+ months
Rate/Salary: £70,000-80,000 FTC annual salary
Location: Manchester based (hybrid working - 2-3 days in office per week)
The Role:
The Financial Controller will play a crucial role in ensuring financial stability and providing strategic guidance to senior management.
* Lead the annual and mid-year budgeting and forecasting processes in line with group requirements
* Conduct financial analysis and provide recommendations to optimize financial performance and drive growth across business segments
* Create monthly and annual reports to identify results, trends, and financial forecasts
* Accuracy of ledgers for all legal entities including the various intercompany accounts
* Implement effective financial controls and systems to mitigate risks relating to those legal entities
* Oversee cash flow, liquidity, and working capital management within the legal entities
* Engage proactively in the group’s risk management framework as it relates to the finance function, including the relevant local platform risk & control self-assessments and attestation processes
* Support audit activities, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies
* Collaborate and engage positively with senior management, local entity board members and fund representatives on financial matters
* Present financial performance and forecasts to wider stakeholders within group, ensuring transparency and credibility
Experience Required:
The role would suit individuals from a financial services, professional services or broader business services background, ideally Big 4 or consultancy-trained prior to moving into industry.
* ACA, ACCA, CIMA qualified or equivalent with post-qualified experience
* Experience with general ledger functions and the month-end/year end close process
* Strong communicator - verbal and written
* Strong stakeholder management skills
* Strong commercial focus with the ability to proactively identify, evaluate and deliver opportunities to create value within the business
* Comfortable working with and professionally challenging senior colleagues to drive financial performance
* The role will require strong relationship building and communication skills to ensure strong working relationships with Finance teams across each of the jurisdictions in which the business operates
If the above role would be of interest and you fit the following criteria, please apply online for consideration. Please note that sponsorship cannot be offered for this role and notice periods up to 1 month can only be considered.