Role: Group Financial Controller
Location: Birmingham city centre (3 days/week on site)
Salary: £85,000 to £100,000 plus excellent benefits
Group Financial Controller required for a superb multinational professional services organisation based in central Birmingham. This senior position will report into a fantastic Group CFO, and have full control of group reporting, FP&A, tax and regulatory compliance.
As Group Financial Controller, your responsibilities will primarily include:
- Production of statutory accounts through strong accounting controls
- Management of the group consolidation system
- Management of key balance sheet control accounts
- Providing technical expertise on all financial accounting matters, providing updates to the CFO
- Ensuring best practice for technical reporting across the finance function
- Maintenance of the fixed asset register
- Management of capital expenditure forecasting, and cash flow analysis (reforecasting as required), highlighting liquidity risks to senior management
- Production of complex cash flow forecasting tools, remodelling as required as the business’ needs continue to grow and change
- Leading on corporate tax and transfer pricing matters, subject to local regulations
- Management of all regulatory reporting and ensuring governance/compliance requirements are met
- Conversion of foreign statutory accounts from local to UK GAAP
- Advising on and implementing new accounting standards under FRS102
- Supporting the CFO on management investment plans
- Supporting the Finance Manager with leading the finance function and ensuring best practice across the team
The ideal candidate will:
- Be fully qualified (ICAEW, ICAS or ACCA), with 5+ years’ post-qualification experience
- Ideally have come from a Top 20 accountancy firm
- Be highly proficient in financial reporting and knowledgeable on updated accounting standards
- Have experience handling complex consolidations
- Be a capable business partner, able to challenge and influence at very senior levels
- Have experience building complex financial models, and working to continuously improve them
Package on offer
This is a really exciting time to be joining the business, as they continue to develop in their market. You’ll be coming into amazing Birmingham-based offices working with an already word-class finance team; but also on offer is:
- Flexible working opportunities, including a hybrid working model (3 days/week in the office)
- Generous annual leave allowance of 27 days, increasing 1 per year of service to 30 days
- Enrolment into group private pension contributions of minimum 5%
- Enrolment into bonus scheme
- Private healthcare for you, your partner and family
