Group Financial Controller
At a Glance
- Full Time, Permanent
- Greater Belfast, (Office-based / Hybrid)
- Market leading package
About the Company
Our client is one of Northern Ireland’s most successful hospitality groups, operating a portfolio of well-known venues across Greater Belfast and beyond. With a reputation for quality, innovation and outstanding customer experience, the group is scaling rapidly, with new venues, brands and investment driving significant growth. It is a fast-paced, entrepreneurial business with a strong family of brands and a genuinely collaborative culture.
The Role
This is a newly created, key appointment within the group’s finance function. Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, the Group Financial Controller will take ownership of the financial control environment across a multi-site, multi-entity business, leading a high-performing team and ensuring accurate and timely reporting while acting as a trusted partner to senior leadership and operational teams. The role combines strong technical accounting with real commercial influence, offering the opportunity to shape processes, play a central part in the implementation of a new finance system, and help build a finance function that can keep pace with a rapidly scaling business.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the month-end and year-end close across all group entities, including consolidation
- Produce accurate and timely management accounts, board packs and KPI reporting
- Lead, develop and motivate a high-performing finance team, embedding a culture of accuracy and continuous improvement
- Own the annual budgeting and forecasting process, working closely with venue and operational managers
- Deliver site-level performance analysis, including margins, labour costs and stock control
- Manage the statutory audit process and liaise with external auditors and tax advisers
- Oversee cash flow management, banking relationships and treasury reporting
- Ensure compliance with VAT, PAYE and other statutory and regulatory requirements
- Play a key role in the implementation of a new finance system, strengthening financial controls and processes across a growing estate
- Support capital expenditure appraisals, new site openings and acquisition activity
What You’ll Need
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
- Proven experience at Financial Controller or senior Finance Manager level
- Strong background in multi-entity reporting and group consolidation
- Experience of managing and developing a finance team
- Excellent technical accounting knowledge and attention to detail
- Commercially minded, with the ability to influence non-finance stakeholders
- Comfortable thriving in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
Desirable:
- Ideally, experience within hospitality, or a closely related leisure or multi-site environment
- Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth or rapidly scaling business
- Exposure to EPOS, stock and payroll systems integration
- Involvement in systems implementation or process improvement projects
- Experience supporting acquisitions, refinancing or new site openings
Why Apply
- A senior, highly visible role within one of Northern Ireland’s leading hospitality groups
- Direct reporting line to the CFO, with close exposure to the senior leadership team
- A newly created role, leading a high-performing team with genuine scope to shape finance processes and structure
- The chance to join a rapidly scaling group at a pivotal stage of its growth, with a new finance system being implemented
- Competitive salary and benefits package, plus staff discounts across the group’s venues
For more information on this role, or any other Accountancy and Finance position, please contact Gemma Murphy.
Skills:Manage Cash Flow Group Accounting Financial Statements Commercial Accounting
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