Financial Controller - Letchworth, Hertfordshire
JSS are delighted to be partnering with our client who are based near Letchworth on the recruitment of a excellent new Financial Controller role. We are looking for a Financial Controller to be responsible for all aspect of financial control and period end across multiple entities in a large fast paced business.
The Financial Controller will support the Finance Director in all aspects of the financial control and reporting, this is a role with genuine scope to shape and improve processes in a large growing business. As the business is growing year on year, this role offers great exposure to senior leadership and future career progression within a growing and acquisitive group.
Finance Controller Role:
This Finance Controller role will be responsible for:
-Managing month end and period in a large business including work in progress and revenue recognition
-Ensuring strong control over key balance sheet areas (e.g. contract assets/liabilities, provisions, accruals and leases), including regular reconciliations, review processes, and risk identification.
-Leading internal control compliance programmes, including control testing, documentation, and remediation of deficiencies.
-Acting as the primary interface with external auditors and internal audit, managing audit processes, resolving technical accounting issues, and ensuring timely, high-quality deliverables.
-Providing expertise on complex accounting areas (e.g. revenue recognition, leases, impairments), maintaining group accounting policies and supporting business units on technical matters.
-Driving standardisation, automation, and continuous improvement of finance processes across projects and business units
-Managing several staff
-Responsible for the accounting for IFRS 16 - Leases
-Ad -hoc projects across the business
-Some travel to several sites
Profile:
-An experienced Finance Manager/Financial Controller who is ACA, CIMA or ACCA qualified
-It is ideal to have worked a larger businesses, managing controls, period end, reporting and audit
-Essential to have good balance sheet and controls experience ideally in a large organisation
-Must be able to work in a fast growth, fast paced environment
On Offer:
-Salary circa £90k plus £5k car allowance, bonus and hybrid working