Job Title: Financial Controller
Location: Lancashire (Hybrid)
Salary: £60,000-£70,000
Reports to: Finance Director
About the Company
Our client is a high growth, forward-thinking professional services firm, providing a comprehensive range of specialist services to businesses and individuals on a national scale. The business is ambitious, with a clear focus on sustainable growth, strengthening its market position and building long-term relationships.
With an entrepreneurial mindset and a collaborative culture, this is a business that offers its people the opportunity to make a genuine impact while being part of an ambitious and growing environment.
The Role
Supporting the Finance Director, the Financial Controller will take ownership of management accounts and accounts payable. This is a hands-on, high-impact role, ideal for a second time mover or technically strong accountant with solid experience in financial controls. You will oversee day-to-day finance operations while providing meaningful financial insight to influence business decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the monthly management accounts, including P&L, balance sheet, cash flow and variance analysis
- Ensure accurate and timely reconciliations, journals and financial reporting
- Maintain strong financial controls, processes and procedures
- Provide financial insight and analysis to support the Finance Director and SLT
- Produce monthly cost centre reporting for the Board and SLT and support effective cost management
- Manage a small finance team across management accounts and accounts payable
- Oversee accounts payable, ensuring accurate payments, approvals and controls
- Support budgeting and forecasting, including rolling forecasts and the annual budget
- Lead the annual audit and liaise with external auditors
- Review monthly payroll reports, ensuring accurate and timely payment of salaries, pensions etc
- Maintain robust banking controls, including user access and authorisation levels
About You
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
- Strong technical accounting knowledge and proven experience in maintaining effective financial controls
- Demonstrable experience preparing management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations and statutory financial reporting
- Exceptional attention to detail with a consistently high level of accuracy
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and provide financial insight to support decision making
- Strong Microsoft Excel and Power BI (or similar reporting tools) experience
- Proven ability to prioritise tasks and effectively coordinate multiple workstreams
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate complex financial information with senior stakeholders
- Experience managing a small finance team
Desirable
- Experience within a professional services/LLP environment
- Experience using budgeting, forecasting or financial planning systems
- Previous experience managing or overseeing accounts payable processes