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This is more than a technical finance role. You'll be a senior leader within Financial Control, responsible for ensuring the integrity, accuracy and performance of the group's financial reporting, while also stepping in to lead the function when needed. You'll take clear ownership of management and statutory accounting across a multi-entity, multi-currency environment, leading the monthly close, group consolidation and audit process. Alongside this, you'll provide senior oversight and support across payroll, compliance, systems and transactional finance, ensuring strong controls and consistency across the function. You'll lead management accounting and payroll through your direct reports, while supporting and strengthening the wider transactional finance functions. Working closely with senior stakeholders across the business, you'll provide clear financial insight, challenge and direction, helping ensure the business operates with strong financial discipline as it continues to grow. This role combines technical expertise, leadership and judgement. You'll be just as comfortable leading the close and audit process as you are representing finance in senior forums or driving improvements across systems and controls.
Job Responsibility
Owning the monthly management accounts, close process and financial reporting
Leading group consolidations, statutory accounts and the external audit process
Acting as deputy to the Financial Controller, providing leadership and continuity
Driving improvements across financial controls, systems and reporting quality
Providing senior oversight and support across payroll, tax and compliance
Providing oversight and support to AP and AR functions, ensuring strong controls, accurate processing and effective cash management
Leading and developing a team across management accounts and payroll
Requirements
Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with strong post-qualification experience
Proven background in a senior financial control role within a complex, multi-entity business
Strong technical expertise across group consolidations and statutory reporting (FRS102)
Experience leading external audits end-to-end
Confident people leader with the ability to develop and motivate teams
Comfortable operating with autonomy and representing finance at a senior level
Strong systems mindset, ideally with ERP experience (Business Central or similar)
Able to communicate financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders
High attention to detail with a proactive, solutions-focused approach
What we offer
Annual bonus opportunity
26 days holiday plus bank holidays
Option to buy up to 5 additional holiday days
Paid volunteer days
Harding+ staff discount onboard and through staff sales
Free onsite parking
Salary sacrifice schemes
Online discounts with major high street retailers
Employee wellbeing assistance programme
Staff social events and parties
4x life assurance
Medical cashback plan
Hybrid working and a collaborative office environment