Group Financial Controller
4 hours ago
"Control your own destiny or someone else will." Jack Welch.
Sheridan Maine is delighted to be partnering with an established and growing organisation based in Southwest London to recruit a Group Financial Controller for a 12-month maternity cover contract. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic business operating across multiple international markets, offering hybrid working and the chance to play a pivotal role in a complex global finance environment.
What is on Offer:
- A key leadership role within a successful, expanding organisation.
- Hybrid working model – 3 days in the office, 2 days from home.
- A collaborative and supportive culture.
- Competitive compensation and the opportunity to make a real impact during a critical period.
Responsibilities of the Group Financial Controller include:
- Oversee the full group month-end close and statutory reporting cycle, ensuring accurate consolidations across international entities.
- Lead external financial reporting, including board reporting, audit coordination, lender communications, and compliance with regulatory and statutory requirements in the UK and overseas.
- Maintain strong technical accounting standards, ensuring group accounting policies and IFRS knowledge remain current and consistently applied.
- Manage tax, treasury, and cashflow activities, including global banking, cash forecasting, working capital, and multi-currency considerations.
- Strengthen and oversee group financial controls, balance sheet governance, and month-end reconciliation processes.
- Lead and develop the central shared service centre and wider finance team, ensuring high-quality delivery across GL, AP, and AR.
- Support key projects such as ERP implementation, new entity setup, process improvement initiatives, and technology upgrades.
- Build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, providing clear financial insights, highlighting risks, and supporting informed decision-making across the business.
The successful Group Financial Controller will require the following skills and experience:
- An accountancy qualification (ACA or equivalent).
- Proven experience in complex global consolidations is essential.
- Ideally, you will bring experience within the travel industry or another highly regulated, multi-territory environment.
- Strong technical accounting skills and the ability to navigate large, evolving group structures.
If you are an experienced Group Financial Controller with strong consolidation expertise and the ability to thrive in a global environment, we would love to hear from you. Please click on "apply" as soon as possible.
You are required to be eligible to work in the UK full time without restriction.
Due to the high volume of applications, it is not always possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants. Therefore, if we have not responded to your application within five days, please assume that on this occasion your application has not been successful.
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