Financial Controller

Financial Controller Salary:
Circa £75,000 + Paid Travel

Location:

Cardiff (20% office-based / 80% home-based)

Contract:

Full-Time, Permanent We are delighted to be partnering exclusively with our client, a high-growth business operating across a range of highly regulated and technically sectors, to recruit a Financial Controller. The organisation is entering an exciting period of growth, strategic development, and preparation for a potential future transaction, creating a unique opportunity for a technically strong finance leader to make a significant impact.

Reporting directly to the Finance Director, this role will take ownership of financial control, reporting, and accounting operations across a multi-entity group. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in strengthening financial governance, improving reporting quality, and ensuring the business is fully prepared for future investor, buyer, lender, and adviser scrutiny.### The Opportunity This position offers far more than traditional financial control responsibilities.

The successful individual will work closely with senior leadership to support the business through a key phase of its evolution, helping to drive financial excellence while contributing to transaction readiness and long-term value creation.###

Key Responsibilities
* Lead the monthly close process and consolidation of multiple entities.
* Deliver accurate, timely, and insightful management accounts.
* Maintain robust balance sheet controls, reconciliations, and cash flow management.
* Produce meaningful analysis of financial performance, including revenue, margins, EBITDA, working capital, and forecasting.
* Strengthen financial controls, governance, and reporting frameworks across the business.
* Support annual statutory accounts preparation and external audits.
* Develop and implement a detailed financial sales-readiness programme.
* Prepare information for vendor and buyer due diligence processes.
* Build and maintain high-quality financial data room documentation.
* Support quality of earnings analysis, working capital reviews, and transaction-related financial reporting.
* Partner with external advisers including accountants, auditors, lawyers, and corporate finance specialists.### About You We are seeking an ambitious and commercially minded qualified accountant who combines strong technical expertise with proven transaction experience.

You will possess:

ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification.

Direct involvement in a completed business sale, private equity investment, acquisition, or comparable corporate transaction.

Hands-on experience supporting financial due diligence, data room preparation, quality of earnings reviews, and stakeholder enquiries.

Strong technical accounting, reporting, consolidation, cash flow, and balance sheet management skills.

A track record of enhancing financial controls, systems, and processes within a growing or evolving business.

The ability to engage confidently with senior stakeholders and challenge where appropriate.

Ideally experience within a multi-entity group environment.

What's on Offer?

Salary circa £75,000

Flexible hybrid working arrangement

Cardiff office attendance approximately 20% of the time

Paid travel expenses

Exposure to senior leadership and strategic decision-making

Opportunity to play a critical role in a future business transactionA chance to join a growing organisation at a pivotal stage of its journey

If you are a technically strong Accountant who has successfully navigated a business through a transaction and are looking for an opportunity where you can genuinely influence the future direction of an organisation, we would be pleased to hear from you.

For a confidential discussion and further information, please apply today.