Financial Controller | Retail | London / Hybrid | Day rate: £500 | 6-month Contract
What you’ll be doing:
* Owning the end‑to‑end month‑end close process and ensuring timely, accurate financial outputs
* Reviewing and approving journals, accruals, provisions and revenue recognition treatments
* Maintaining balance sheet integrity through regular review, challenge and resolution of reconciling items
* Producing high‑quality financial information for senior stakeholders, highlighting risks and key movements
* Managing short‑term and medium‑term cash flow forecasting and liquidity monitoring
* Acting as a key finance contact for audit, statutory reporting, tax compliance and external advisors
* Ensuring appropriate financial controls, approval frameworks and documentation are in place and followed
* Supporting budgeting, forecasting and longer‑term financial planning activities
* Partnering with commercial and operational teams to provide financially sound input into decision‑making
* Leading and supporting a distributed finance team across accounting, payables and receivables functions
* Addressing ad‑hoc finance queries, issues and requests from senior management
* Driving continuous process improvement
* Supporting finance systems changes
* Providing clear, concise financial updates to non‑financial stakeholders
Who they are looking for:
* Fully qualified accountant (ACA or equivalent) (Top 10 highly regarded)
* Experience operating at Financial Controller level
* Background in fast‑paced, multi‑entity environments (consumer, retail, product‑led or similar)
* Strong technical accounting knowledge with sound commercial judgement