Group Financial Controller

• Own consolidation and intercompany reporting across all group entities.
  
• Maintain and refine the chart of accounts accounting policies and reporting templates as the group scales.
  
• Maintain the bookkeeping in Xero.
  
• Deliver monthly management accounts and year-end statutory accounts.
  
• Prepare and submit VAT returns (incl. partial VAT).
  
• Oversee with support from the HR function the Groups monthly payroll process.
  
• Support M&A and post-acquisition integration.
  
• Create budgets and financial models.
  
• Monitor cash flow and develop forecasting processes.
  
• Prepare Board and investor reporting packs.
  

This is a hands-on Controller role you will be doing the work personally not just reviewing it. The essential requirements are:

• ACA ACCA or CIMA qualified with a controllership background (not solely audit/practice).
  
• Proven hands-on ownership of group consolidation across multiple entities.
  
• Proven track record of owning the full accounting cycle including month-end statutory accounts VAT and managing the audit relationship.
  
• Circa 2 years post-qualification industry experience where depth of relevant experience matters more than a fixed number of years.
  
• Comfortable being hands-on: happy to prepare accounts reconcile and improve processes personally.
  
• Confident using Xero Excel and management reporting tools.
  

• Audit-trained at a Big 4 or leading mid-tier firm.
  
• VC- PE- or family-office-backed companies.
  
• Multi-site or multi-entity businesses
  
• Start-up / fast-growing environments including improving (not just building) finance processes as a business scales.
  
• Experience with partial VAT exemption (ideally in a healthcare medical or mixed-supply environment) is a plus.
  
• Comfortable presenting numbers directly to founders/leadership confident being challenged and pushing back when needed.
  
• Proactive solutions-oriented and motivated by improving structure in a scaling business.