Senior Financial Controller

Senior Financial Controller

Location: Solihull; a flexible hybrid working model which supports you as well as enabling you to work collaboratively with your colleagues

Contract: Full-time, Permanent

The Role

Reporting to the Director of Finance, the Senior Financial Controller will provide senior leadership across financial accounting, statutory reporting, group consolidation, regulatory reporting and financial control activities for the UK entries.

The role will take ownership of complex reporting and control topics, leading delivery through finance teams, influencing stakeholders across the business and supporting transformation activity to improve quality, efficiency and control.

Key Responsibilities are:

• Support the Director of Finance in delivering the Core Finance control agenda, ensuring financial accounting, statutory reporting, regulatory reporting, group reporting and operational finance control activities are joined up, well governed and delivered to required standards.
• Provide senior oversight of financial accounting, management accounts, statutory accounts and Group consolidation reporting for the UK entities, ensuring outputs are accurate, controlled, complete and delivered to agreed deadlines.
• Responsible for leading and coordinating month-end, quarter-end and year-end reporting processes across relevant finance teams, influencing contributors to deliver high-quality submissions and resolving issues in a timely manner.
• Lead, coach and develop direct reports and colleagues involved in financial accounting and control activities, promoting high performance, technical quality, ownership and continuous improvement.
• Support finance transformation projects, process improvement activity and ad hoc business initiatives as required, ensuring financial control remains embedded through change.

Skills & Attributes

• Strong technical accounting, reporting and financial control skills.
• Can influence senior stakeholders and challenge current processes constructively.
• Leadership, coaching and workload management skills.
• Diligent, organised and can prioritise competing deadlines.
• Can work independently while engaging effectively with all areas of the business.

Could this be you?

Making a positive impact is at the heart of everything we do. We’re looking for people who live by our values, who are positive, brave, and own it. Don’t let confidence hold you back. You don’t need to meet every requirement - if you have around 75% of the skills and the right attitude, we’d love to hear from you.

We aim to complete the process within 3-4 weeks, depending on availability. If you’re not shortlisted, we’ll still let you know the outcome. Please note that this role may close early once we have enough suitable applicants, so apply soon.

Equal Opportunities

We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace and ensuring equal opportunities for all, regardless of age, disability, gender, identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, or background.