Financial Controller. LilyLifestyle

Your new role

As Financial Controller, you will take full ownership of the finance function and lead the day-to-day delivery of accurate, timely and insightful financial outputs. You will be responsible for monthly close, management accounts, KPIs, board reporting and maintaining strong balance sheet integrity, including inventory. You'll lead budgeting and forecasting cycles, oversee cashflow and liquidity planning, and drive automation, systems improvements and process optimisation.

You will also partner with operational and commercial teams to support decision-making and performance, while managing external relationships with auditors, tax advisors, banks and payment providers. Leadership of a small finance team will be a key part of the role.

You'll be working on a business that doesn't stand still. The role will evolve with opportunity to gain commercial skills learnt from an experienced CFO and the future involves ERP systems implementations and the harnessing of the power of BI in this data-rich environment.

• Fully qualified accountant with proven experience as a Financial Controller or senior finance leader within a product-driven environment.
• Strong technical grounding across accounting, tax, payroll and compliance.
• Relentless focus on balance sheet integrity (especially inventory) and working capital discipline.
• Hands‑on approach, excellent organisational skills and ability to deliver to deadline.
• Experience with ERP accounting systems and ideally BI tools.
• Proven ability to strengthen controls, improve processes and introduce automation.
• Confident communicator, capable of influencing at all levels and simplifying complexity.

• Competitive salary.
• Bonus scheme.
• Hybrid working.
• Suite of corporate benefits.
• Talented CFO mentorship.
• Progression to a Finance Director post in a PE environment for a candidate performing in this role.