Financial Controller - Filled

Vardey Recruitment have been retained to recruit a Financial Controller for a people‑centric, growing tech business based in Poole (Bournemouth region) in Dorset. We are searching for a career‑oriented "values based" Financial Controller to become part of the leadership team to help drive financial performance to enable the business to reach its future ambitious goals.

Working alongside the brilliant Financial Director together you will guide, nurture, and supervise the finance team. Acting as a collaborative key business partner within the senior leadership team, and drive the growth strategy within this forward thinking business.

The Financial Controller will be a highly commercial Accountant, ideally a Qualified Accountant or soon to be.

• Manage budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting processes
• Lead the preparation of operating budgets, monitoring variances, summarising trends, and investigating budget deficiencies
• Formulate and manage cash flow for all companies within the Group
• Oversee monthly closing procedures, ensuring accurate and timely submission of accounts and group reports
• Conduct thorough overhead analysis to identify areas for process improvement
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports and analysis for the key stakeholders in the business
• Conduct comprehensive financial analysis to identify trends, risks and opportunities, providing actionable insights to senior leadership
• Offer suggestions for improving financial performance, review, where appropriate, recommend and implement system and process improvements to support compliance and audit
• Ensure the company complies with financial regulations and standards
• Implement and oversee internal controls to safeguard the company's assets and ensure the integrity of financial data
• Prepare and support internal and external audits
• Lean in, support the finance transactional team in periods of high volume or absence
• Support strategic business decisions by providing financial insights and analyses
• Provide strategic, operational and business partnering support to the Senior Leadership Team

• A qualified accountant – CIMA, ACA or ACCA or equivalent, or a finalist keen to qualify
• Ambitious and highly commercial Finance Manager, Management Accountant, Financial Accountant seeking next step in their career or a proven Finance Controller keen to continue their career
• Strong team manager able to coach others – vision to put people first and believe in the development of others
• Technically strong accountant
• Assertive individual with drive and tenacity
• Business partnering skills, able to work within a fast paced nurturing business with people at the heart
• Bundles of emotional intelligence, self awareness and vision
• Collaborator player, flexible individual

• Basic salary of up to £65,000 (neg) + bonus circa £5k + more bonuses in time
• Regular pay reviews + performance rewards
• Work within a collaborative culture, open, honest, transparent, high quality service
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• After qualifying period to join the enhanced benefit scheme to include additional profit share bonuses
• Exposure to a high growth business as it moves forward and be part of that growth
• Career progression and personal development
• Company values – nurturing, fostering culture, collaboration putting people at the heart of the business
• Private healthcare to include family
• Pension scheme
• Life insurance & income protection
• Working in a fantastic social company – and lots of FUN