Financial Controller

Halliday Marx has entered into a Retained Partnership with a Private Equity owned IT managed services business to deliver an outstanding Financial Controller.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious FC to climb the ladder, get involved with multiple improvement projects and M&A whilst being mentored by a charismatic CFO, keen to mentor you to greater heights. The company is looking to treble it’s turnover in the next few years and wants an FC for the journey.

Our client, scaling at 20% year on year organic growth, will hire a proven FC with exposure to board level, project experience as well as running a small team. You will have great communications skills, able to chat at ease with the CEO, head of marketing and all non-finance staff.

Impress, and the world is your oyster, not only in this company, but across the PE group’s stable of companies.

The Role:

Financial Controller

£90 - 100k (Plus bonus)

Hybrid: 3 days in the office

Based in Gloucestershire, but with the remit to visit offices in London and the North

This newly created role will be incredibly broad. It will encompass BAU as well as multiple projects.

BAU: Managing 4-5 and be great with business controller and being a solid controller with good stakeholder management.

Projects: Integration, Improvements,

Role requirements:

Ideally worked in Tech and/or services/telecoms

Team leadership and development in non-BAU environments

Experience of non-BAU activity, potentially M&A integration work

Good systems experience, implementation and/or development/improvement

Self-starter and can work on own initiative, identify issues quickly and support resolution.

Good communication and empathy in the wider business

Strong personality with a sense of humour

Flexible where required especially versus stakeholder requirements ie C suite and non-finance stakeholders

Not super technical but a good and wide knowledge in all areas of finance. Ability to know what good looks like, especially around business control and compliance

You will be:

A Qualified Accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA / CA or equivalent) with at least 5 years post qualified experience

A Financial Controller already with 2 years experience doing FC activities

Tenured with previous projects of integration and improvements

Excellent with systems: High level excel data modelling is an advantage, as is a working knowledge of Netsuite.

Skilled at managing teams (no matter what size)

Confident interacting with the board

Energetic and keen to impress