Step up from leading a finance team to leading the leaders who run it. This Financial Controller role gives you responsibility for three experienced managers and a wider team, with the freedom to set the direction rather than getting dragged into every detail.
You’ll inherit a finance operation that works well, so this isn’t a turnaround. The opportunity is to make a good function better: challenging established routines, improving processes and using automation and AI intelligently, while protecting the controls behind the numbers. You’ll have real influence over how finance evolves, backed by a salary of £85,000-£89,000, up to 10% bonus and hybrid working with three days a week in Southampton.
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Reporting to the Finance leadership team, you will be responsible for:
- Leading three managers across technical accounting, management reporting and financial operations, with a wider team of around 22
- Setting clear expectations and giving your managers the autonomy to lead their own teams
- Overseeing financial control, the annual report, statutory reporting, year-end and external audit
- Building strong relationships with senior leaders, auditors and the Audit & Risk Committee
- Challenging established processes and identifying opportunities for smarter automation and AI
- Ensuring improvements make finance easier and more efficient without compromising financial control
- Helping shape the finance systems roadmap, working alongside technology specialists and delivery teams
What you will need:
- Previous experience in a similar senior finance role, such as Financial Controller, Group Financial Controller, Head of Financial Control, Head of Finance or senior Financial Reporting role
- A recognised professional accountancy qualification, preferably ACA, ACCA or CIMA
- Experience leading managers who themselves lead teams, rather than only directly managing individual contributors
- End-to-end ownership of annual reporting, statutory accounts and external audit
- Experience working with an Audit & Risk Committee or board and building effective relationships with external auditors
- Evidence of leading finance transformation or process improvement through your management team
- Strong financial control and technical accounting knowledge, combined with the judgement to know when to challenge and when to delegate
- The ability to bring people with different roles and levels of technical expertise behind the same vision
What you will get:
- Up to 10% performance-related bonus
- 28 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with service
- Hybrid working, with three days per week in the Southampton office
- Flexible working options
- Enhanced family leave, including paid partner leave
- Learning and development support, coaching and mentoring
- Wellbeing support
- Volunteering leave and matched fundraising
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