Group Financial Controller
21 days ago
Liverpool
A Group Financial Controller role leading management and financial reporting in a PE-backed services business, managing a team of circa 8. Hands-on position with responsibility for audit, regulatory reporting, and financial control in a fast-growing environment. Client Details A PE backed, Liverpool-headquartered services business. The firm is highly profitable, experiencing strong growth. Description • Lead and develop the group finance function, ensuring accurate and timely reporting, • Oversee month-end close, consolidations, and performance analysis across entities, • Manage audit processes and act as the key contact for external auditors, • Ensure compliance with regulatory, tax, and statutory reporting requirements, • Drive improvements in financial controls, processes, and systems, • Partner with senior stakeholders to support budgeting, forecasting, and decision-making, • Review sensitive accounting areas (e.g. payroll, bonuses, cash management), • Support finance transformation and change projects across the business Profile • Fully qualified accountant (ideally ACA) with strong technical grounding across both management and statutory reporting, • Proven leader with experience managing and developing teams in a fast-paced environment, • Confident operating in a hands-on, detail-focused role with ownership of key financial processes, • Comfortable in a PE-backed or high-growth business with evolving priorities and tight deadlines, • Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to partner senior leadership, • Experience in regulated environments (FCA or similar) would be advantageous, • Proactive, resilient, and able to bring structure to a sometimes complex or changing business Job Offer • Competitive salary ranging from £85,000 to £95,000 per annum, • 25 days of annual leave., • Opportunity to earn a discretionary bonus, • Senior leadership role with direct exposure to the CFO and business strategy, • Broad, hands-on remit across reporting, control, and finance transformation, • Opportunity to join a growing, profitable PE-backed business, • Strong career progression potential within an expanding finance function, • Stable, high-retention culture with long-tenured team members