Interim Financial Controller
Location:
Lincoln
Contract Type:
Interim (3–6 months, with potential for extension) Negotiable Day Rate
Reporting To: CFO
Start Date:
ASAP
Role Overview:
Reed finance are supporting a rapidly growing business based in Lincolnshire who are looking for an experienced and hands-on
Interim Financial Controller
is required to support a business during a period of financial transformation and operational improvement. This role will focus on strengthening financial controls, ensuring balance sheet integrity.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Balance Sheet Reconciliation
* The successful candidate will be responsible for reviewing the latest balance sheet accounts, supporting schedules, and working papers, ensuring full reconciliation of all accounts to appropriate supporting documentation. They will prepare any missing schedules in line with GAAP, including fixed asset registers and other key reconciliations, and overhaul substandard schedules to ensure accuracy and compliance. Additionally, they will build a complete suite of working papers covering all balance sheet accounts and provide support and training to the Management Accountant to maintain high-quality monthly reconciliations and schedule upkeep.
2. US Accounting & System Updates:
* The successful candidate will be responsible for reviewing imported transactions from the US system into the ERP to ensure accuracy and completeness, performing full bank reconciliations within the system, and developing and maintaining supporting balance sheet schedules for the US entity. They will establish a structured month-end timetable and process to enable timely management reporting, while also collaborating closely with US-based accountants to support monthly filings and ensure compliance with relevant regulatory requirements.
3. Project Support to the CFO:
* The successful candidate will be responsible for conducting a comprehensive review of the Purchase-to-Pay process and recommending improvements, evaluating and enhancing existing month-end close procedures, and overhauling and documenting credit control processes and procedures. They will also prepare weekly financial reports for senior management and the board, while undertaking additional ad hoc financial projects as required to support the wider finance function
Candidate Profile:
* Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
* Demonstrated experience in a Financial Controller or senior finance role, ideally with exposure to both UK and US accounting environments.
* Strong technical accounting knowledge and familiarity with GAAP.
* Proficient in Accounting systems and comfortable working with ERP integrations
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to support and develop junior finance staff.
* Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and capable of working independently in a fast-paced environment.