Financial Controller

Financial Controller - Letchworth, Hertfordshire

JSS are delighted to be partnering with our client who are based near Letchworth on the recruitment of a excellent new Financial Controller role. We are looking for a Financial Controller to be responsible for all aspect of financial control and period end across multiple entities in a large fast paced business.

The Financial Controller will support the Finance Director in all aspects of the financial control and reporting, this is a role with genuine scope to shape and improve processes in a large growing business. As the business is growing year on year, this role offers great exposure to senior leadership and future career progression within a growing and acquisitive group.

This Finance Controller role will be responsible for:

• Managing month end and period in a large business including work in progress and revenue recognition
• Ensuring strong control over key balance sheet areas (e.g. contract assets/liabilities, provisions, accruals and leases), including regular reconciliations, review processes, and risk identification.
• Leading internal control compliance programmes, including control testing, documentation, and remediation of deficiencies.
• Acting as the primary interface with external auditors and internal audit, managing audit processes, resolving technical accounting issues, and ensuring timely, high-quality deliverables.
• Providing expertise on complex accounting areas (e.g. revenue recognition, leases, impairments), maintaining group accounting policies and supporting business units on technical matters.
• Driving standardisation, automation, and continuous improvement of finance processes across projects and business units.
• Managing several staff.
• Responsible for the accounting for IFRS 16 - Leases.
• Ad hoc projects across the business.
• Some travel to several sites.

• An experienced Finance Manager/Financial Controller who is ACA, CIMA or ACCA qualified
• It is ideal to have worked in larger businesses, managing controls, period end, reporting and audit
• Essential to have good balance sheet and controls experience ideally in a large organization
• Must be able to work in a fast growth, fast paced environment

• Salary circa £90k plus £5k car allowance, bonus and hybrid working