Financial Control - Legal Entity control contract - Randstad Financial & Professional

Job Title: Financial Controller

Location: London / Hybrid

Sector: Technology Platform & Managed Services (Financial Services clients)

Type: Full-time, Permanent

Experience Level: 5–10 years PQE

Qualification: Fully Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the finance lead on legal entity restructuring and rationalisation initiatives across multiple jurisdictions.
• Provide financial governance and control oversight over legal entities during mergers, dissolutions, intercompany reorganisations, and entity wind-downs.
• Collaborate with legal, tax, treasury, and regulatory teams to assess the financial and control impacts of proposed entity changes.
• Manage the financial reporting, audit, and statutory obligations of affected entities through transition periods.
• Prepare and review financial statements (UK GAAP, IFRS, or local GAAP), ensuring compliance and audit readiness.
• Ensure appropriate controls are in place for intercompany transactions, capital injections, dividends, and reserves management throughout restructuring.
• Develop standardised processes and documentation to improve oversight across the legal entity landscape.
• Support capital structure planning, substance requirements, and local regulatory compliance.
• Act as a key finance SME to internal stakeholders (Legal, Strategy, Tax, Compliance, Group Finance).

Candidate Profile

Required:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• 6–10 years of relevant post-qualification experience, ideally gained in a financial services or SaaS company.
• Strong understanding of legal entity structures, statutory reporting, and control frameworks across multiple jurisdictions.
• Proven experience supporting legal entity rationalisation, M&A, or post-acquisition finance integration projects.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams including Legal, Tax, Treasury, and FP&A.
• Familiarity with financial regulations and corporate governance in regulated financial services environments (e.g. FCA, PRA, HKMA, MAS).
• Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth or PE-backed environment is desirable.
• Familiarity with SaaS or platform-based revenue models
• Demonstrated experience preparing management packs, financial analysis, and board-level reporting
• Experience in a technology or managed services company serving financial services clients. Will also consider experience in the banking/asset management/insurance sector
• Advanced Excel and strong systems/ERP skills

Key Competencies

• Strong technical accounting and financial control background.
• Hands-on, proactive, and comfortable operating in a dynamic, evolving environment.
• Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple concurrent legal entity projects.
• Commercially aware with strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Sound judgment and ability to identify and mitigate financial and operational risks during restructuring.