Job Description
A Group Financial Controller role leading management and financial reporting in a PE-backed services business, managing a team of circa 8. Hands-on position with responsibility for audit, regulatory reporting, and financial control in a fast-growing environment.
Client Details
A PE backed, Liverpool-headquartered services business. The firm is highly profitable, experiencing strong growth.
Description
- Lead and develop the group finance function, ensuring accurate and timely reporting
- Oversee month-end close, consolidations, and performance analysis across entities
- Manage audit processes and act as the key contact for external auditors
- Ensure compliance with regulatory, tax, and statutory reporting requirements
- Drive improvements in financial controls, processes, and systems
- Partner with senior stakeholders to support budgeting, forecasting, and decision-making
- Review sensitive accounting areas (e.g. payroll, bonuses, cash management)
- Support finance transformation and change projects across the business
Profile
- Fully qualified accountant (ideally ACA) with strong technical grounding across both management and statutory reporting
- Proven leader with experience managing and developing teams in a fast-paced environment
- Confident operating in a hands-on, detail-focused role with ownership of key financial processes
- Comfortable in a PE-backed or high-growth business with evolving priorities and tight deadlines
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to partner senior leadership
- Experience in regulated environments (FCA or similar) would be advantageous
- Proactive, resilient, and able to bring structure to a sometimes complex or changing business
Job Offer
- Competitive salary ranging from £85,000 to £95,000 per annum
- 25 days of annual leave.
- Opportunity to earn a discretionary bonus
- Senior leadership role with direct exposure to the CFO and business strategy
- Broad, hands-on remit across reporting, control, and finance transformation
- Opportunity to join a growing, profitable PE-backed business
- Strong career progression potential within an expanding finance function
- Stable, high-retention culture with long-tenured team members
