Group Financial Controller

Location:

Birmingham city centre (3 days/week on site)

Salary: £85,000 to £100,000 plus excellent benefits

Group Financial Controller required for a superb multinational professional services organisation based in central Birmingham. This senior position will report into a fantastic Group CFO, and have full control of group reporting, FP&A, tax and regulatory compliance.

As Group Financial Controller
, your responsibilities will primarily include:

• Production of statutory accounts through strong accounting controls
• Management of the group consolidation system
• Management of key balance sheet control accounts
• Providing technical expertise on all financial accounting matters, providing updates to the CFO
• Ensuring best practice for technical reporting across the finance function
• Maintenance of the fixed asset register
• Management of capital expenditure forecasting, and cash flow analysis (reforecasting as required), highlighting liquidity risks to senior management
• Production of complex cash flow forecasting tools, remodelling as required as the business’ needs continue to grow and change
• Leading on corporate tax and transfer pricing matters, subject to local regulations
• Management of all regulatory reporting and ensuring governance/compliance requirements are met
• Conversion of foreign statutory accounts from local to UK GAAP
• Advising on and implementing new accounting standards under FRS
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• Supporting the CFO on management investment plans
• Supporting the Finance Manager with leading the finance function and ensuring best practice across the team

The ideal candidate will:

• Be fully qualified (ICAEW, ICAS or ACCA), with 5+ years’ post-qualification experience
• Ideally have come from a Top 20 accountancy firm
• Be highly proficient in financial reporting and knowledgeable on updated accounting standards
• Have experience handling complex consolidations
• Be a capable business partner, able to challenge and influence at very senior levels
• Have experience building complex financial models, and working to continuously improve them

This is a really exciting time to be joining the business, as they continue to develop in their market. You’ll be coming into amazing Birmingham-based offices working with an already word-class finance team; but also on offer is:

• Flexible working opportunities, including a hybrid working model (3 days/week in the office)
• Generous annual leave allowance of 27 days, increasing 1 per year of service to 30 days
• Enrolment into group private pension contributions of minimum 5%
• Enrolment into bonus scheme
• Private healthcare for you, your partner and family