Reporting & Controls Finance Manager

Working hours: This role is available on a part-time, job-share or full-time basis

Location: Fareham/hybrid working

Closing date for applications: 16th June 2026

The opportunity:

This is an operational team lead role within the Finance Operations Reporting & Controls function, responsible for owning day-to-day delivery, driving team performance, and ensuring high-quality, controlled outputs.

You will lead a UK-based team and provide oversight of offshore delivery, ensuring priorities are clear, resources are aligned, and issues are resolved efficiently. The role is hands‑on and delivery-focused, with accountability for outcomes.

Success in this role comes from creating clarity, maintaining momentum, and taking ownership to ensure the team consistently delivers accurate reporting, strong controls, and excellent service to stakeholders.

Own it: Take full accountability for the team’s operational delivery, ensuring deadlines, quality, and control standards are met

Accelerate it: Drive pace, remove blockers, and continuously improve processes and ways of working

Win it: Deliver reliable, accurate outputs and build trust with stakeholders through consistent performance

Many of our employees work flexibly in a variety of different ways, including part-time, flexible hours, job share, an element of working from home or compressed hours. This is because we want the best people for our roles, and we recognise that sometimes those people aren’t available full-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you may need.

• Lead the day-to-day running of the Reporting & Controls team, setting priorities and ensuring work is delivered on time and to standard
• Act as the first point of accountability for team output, quality, and issue resolution
• Proactively manage workload, capacity, and competing deadlines across all teams
• Ensure clear allocation of tasks and ownership, with strong follow-through

• Take ownership of complex queries and issues, driving them through to resolution with pace and clarity
• Investigate root causes and ensure sustainable fixes are implemented
• Maintain oversight of balance sheet control accounts, ensuring accurate and timely review and sign-off
• Ensure the control environment is effective and consistently applied

• Oversee preparation and review of key finance deliverables, including balance sheet reporting and provisions
• Ensure outputs are accurate, consistent, and meaningful
• Provide clear insight and context to stakeholders where required

• Provide line management for team members, including performance management, coaching, and development
• Create a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement
• Support offshore teams to ensure aligned delivery and high standards

• Build effective working relationships across Finance Operations and the wider business
• Manage dependencies and ensure stakeholder requirements are delivered

• Identify and implement improvements to process efficiency and control effectiveness
• Support delivery of change and automation initiatives

• The team delivers consistently, accurately, and on time
• Issues are owned, understood, and resolved quickly
• Priorities are clear and resources effectively deployed
• Stakeholders receive a reliable and high-quality service

• Accounting qualification desired - ACCA/CIMA (or equivalent)
• Relevant finance experience or equivalent practical knowledge in a finance team
• Preferable experience of working with offshore or co-located teams
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills
• Ability to manage workload and meet deadlines
• Experience supporting or leading teams
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving capability
• Confident communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Intermediate knowledge of Outlook 365 tools, including Power Query (desirable)

• Collaborate – promote and deliver effective collaboration with all stakeholders by understanding all parties needs, through proactive communication, showing…