Financial Controller

Financial Controller | London / Hybrid | FTC: £100-£120k (DOE) | 6-month Contract

What you’ll be doing:

• Owning the end‑to‑end month‑end close process and ensuring timely, accurate financial outputs
• Reviewing and approving journals, accruals, provisions and revenue recognition treatments
• Maintaining balance sheet integrity through regular review, challenge and resolution of reconciling items
• Producing high‑quality financial information for senior stakeholders, highlighting risks and key movements
• Managing short‑term and medium‑term cash flow forecasting and liquidity monitoring
• Acting as a key finance contact for audit, statutory reporting, tax compliance and external advisors
• Ensuring appropriate financial controls, approval frameworks and documentation are in place and followed
• Supporting budgeting, forecasting and longer‑term financial planning activities
• Partnering with commercial and operational teams to provide financially sound input into decision‑making
• Leading and supporting a distributed finance team across accounting, payables and receivables functions
• Addressing ad‑hoc finance queries, issues and requests from senior management
• Driving continuous process improvement
• Supporting finance systems changes
• Providing clear, concise financial updates to non‑financial stakeholders

Who they are looking for :

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA or equivalent) (Top 10 highly regarded)
• Experience operating at Financial Controller level
• Background in fast‑paced, multi‑entity environments (consumer, retail, product‑led or similar)
• Strong technical accounting knowledge with sound commercial judgement