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A PE-backed mid-market Professional Services businesses (£60m) are seeking an experienced Group Financial Controller to play a key leadership role within Group Finance. This position will be instrumental in developing a unified, high-performing finance function capable of supporting a strategy centred on organic growth and acquisitions. Reporting to the CFO, the role will lead the integration of three separate finance teams into a single Group Finance function, ensuring robust systems, processes, and governance are in place to support scalable growth, improve efficiency, and deliver high-quality financial insight to stakeholders. You will play a central role in strengthening reporting, controls, and finance capability, while embedding a culture of continuous improvement across the function.
Job Responsibility:
Define and deliver the strategy for the ongoing development of the Finance function, adopting best practice processes and technology
Lead the integration of finance teams into a single Group function, driving efficiencies and consistent service delivery
Establish a centralised transactional processing model, ensuring compliant and efficient operations
Develop robust management reporting to support internal stakeholders, investors, and lenders
Own planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes, strengthening business partnering and performance insight
Oversee cash management, finance systems, and end-to-end processes, ensuring strong governance and controls
Lead, develop, and motivate the Finance team, embedding a high-performance and continuous improvement culture (team of 11 with 6 direct reports)
Requirements:
Proven experience leading a Finance function through growth, change, or transformation
Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to motivate teams through change
Experience of systems implementation and finance transformation initiatives
Commercially minded with a pragmatic, hands-on approach when required
Strong analytical capability and ability to translate data into actionable insight
Collaborative leadership style with strong stakeholder management skills