Group Financial Controller
Group Financial Controller
6 month Fixed Term Contract
đź“Ť Location: South East, UK - London
đź’° Salary: Competitive, depending on experience
🪪 Applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK
About Penspen
Penspen www.penspen.com is a leading global energy services company, delivering asset integrity, engineering, and consultancy services to the oil, gas, hydrogen, and energy infrastructure sectors. With over 70 years of experience, we help our clients design, maintain, and operate safe, reliable, and efficient assets across the world.
Exciting times are ahead at Penspen as we continue to grow our Corporate Team based in EC1. We’re expanding our exceptional Finance team are now seeking a dynamic and experienced Group Financial Controller to join them.
If you’re passionate about Finance within a Consultancy environment have ACA or are CIMA Qualified we’d love to hear from you.
Purpose of Role:
The Group Financial Controller is a key member of the senior leadership team, responsible for delivering accurate, timely, and high-quality financial reporting to support effective decision-making across the Group. The role has overall ownership of the statutory reporting and annual audit process, working closely with external auditors and other key stakeholders.
The role is accountable for maintaining a strong financial control environment, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and regulatory requirements, and leading the implementation of new financial policies, procedures, and best practices. The Group Financial Controller will safeguard the integrity of the Group’s financial records and systems.
Responsibilities:
1. Own and lead group financial control reporting and month end close across the group.
2. Responsible for the annual group audit process and standalone statutory audit.
3. Preparation of the Group and UK financial statements and oversee preparation and filing of international financial statements
4. Oversee, cashflow, working capital and balance sheet management
5. Integrity of the control environment including balance sheet reviews, performance of key projects and adherence to key accounting standards
6. Ad-hoc analysis to support key strategic business decisions
Key Relationships:
7. Internal finance team members
8. Parent corporate finance team
9. Senior Business leadership team
Knowledge / Experience (Skills):
10. Experience of operating in a multinational environment and working with remote teams
11. Significant exposure to project-based organisations
12. Strong appetite and passion to understand systems and data structure combined with the ability to produce insightful financial analysis
13. Comfortable operating in an a 'hands-on’ environment
14. Financial reporting experience under IFRS
15. Flexibility for travel
Qualifications:
16. ACA / CIMA qualified
Environment, Health & Safety:
In addition to the role responsibilities, every employee has overall responsibility for:
17. Understanding and adhering to all relevant policies and procedures;
18. Taking reasonable care for your own Health and Safety and the Health and Safety of others;
19. Working with the Company to ensure a high standard of Environmental Health and Safety management by following the site EHS procedures. Ensuring compliance with all relevant quality standards/procedures in your area. This includes reporting any deviations from these standards/procedures, completing corrective actions and making recommendations to prevent similar deviations in the future.
Penspen Competencies:
20. Makes Effective Decisions - Gathers evidence and applies judgement to analyse problems and evaluate options in a logical and systematic way, in order to cut through complexity and ambiguity to arrive at sound decisions that enable business growth in a timely manner.
21. Supports Change – Is open to change, ambiguity and transformation, identifying opportunities for innovation, creativity and growth. Taking personal responsibility for successfully embedding strategic change across the organisation.
22. Leads Self and Others – Leads with clarity, conviction and enthusiasm, aligning self and others to deliver the values and business strategy of Penspen.
23. Communicates and Influences - Communicates and influences others, presenting information clearly and adapting styles to meet audience needs and achieve business outcomes.
24. Collaborates and Partners - Promotes trust and respect in all relationships, actively listens and integrates others’ perspectives and offers constructive challenge, supports teamwork and collaborates across boundaries to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.
25. Develops Capability – Has a strong focus on continuous learning and development for self and others, building capability and sharing talent across the organisation.
26. Achieves Superior Performance - Has a commercial and sustainable mind-set to deliver results on time, on budget and to a high quality, ensuring that all activities adhere to safety standards, add value and contribute to growth for the Penspen Group business.
27. Delivers with Focus - Takes initiative to anticipate challenge and ensure performance is delivered with energy and perseverance, taking responsibility and accountability to respond flexibly and ensure quality outcomes.
28. Provides Professional Expertise - Maintains own professional knowledge, skills and understanding within their specific area of expertise, and effectively applies and shares their expertise to support business operations and growth.
If you have the skills and can work in the London office please click the link apply https://careers.penspen.com/vacancy/group-financial-controller--605163.html
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Country Job Based In UK Location UK - South East Job Family Finance Type of Contract Fixed Term Contract Full/Part time Full Time Region (current) Europe Closing Date 08/03/2026 Ref No WEST15725