Permanent | International, multi-entity business
Ready to take the lead on financial control in a hyper growth business with a genuinely international footprint?
**This role is for someone who is keen to shape the future with AI, building tech stacks, automating and loves what AI can to to improve a business**
We’re looking for a technically strong, hands-on Group Financial Controller to lead a global Financial Control function. Reporting to the VP, Group Finance, you’ll have a broad remit across group reporting, technical accounting, tax governance and financial controls, while helping build the processes and capability needed to support the business as it grows.
This is a role for someone who enjoys getting into the detail, can guide others through complex accounting issues and knows how to turn sound financial control into a practical advantage for the wider business.
What you’ll be doing
- Lead group consolidation and month-end, quarter-end and year-end reporting across multiple entities and jurisdictions.
- Own technical accounting policies and judgements, including revenue recognition, foreign currency, intercompany transactions and complex commercial arrangements.
- Lead the accounting workstreams of an IFRS readiness programme, developing and embedding consistent policies.
- Oversee tax governance and compliance, including corporate tax, VAT and transfer pricing, working with specialist advisers and confidently challenging their recommendations.
- Strengthen the control environment, balance sheet governance, reconciliations and statutory reporting.
- Lead external audits and build effective relationships with auditors and advisers.
- Oversee Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, improving supplier payments, invoicing, collections and working capital processes.
- Drive accounting process improvements, automation and the financial control elements of an ERP implementation.
- Support fundraising, due diligence, acquisitions and the set-up of new entities or business models.
- Lead and develop the Financial Control team, setting clear standards and building technical capability.
What you’ll bring
- Significant experience in group financial control or technical accounting within an international, multi-entity organisation.
- Strong IFRS knowledge and experience with implementation, conversion or technical accounting projects.
- Expertise in consolidation, complex accounting judgements, revenue recognition and statutory reporting.
- Experience overseeing audits, tax compliance, AP and AR, and financial control frameworks.
- The confidence to assess and challenge external advice, alongside the judgement to know when to bring in specialist support.
- A practical, hands-on approach, with the communication skills to work effectively across Finance and the wider business.
Experience in a high-growth or acquisitive business, ERP transformation, fundraising or acquisition accounting would be useful. A background in a complex, international organisation is particularly relevant.
Why consider it?
You’ll have the breadth to shape how financial control works across an international group, lead an important IFRS readiness programme and make a visible difference to reporting quality, governance and the team around you.
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