Financial Controller

Financial Controller - Milton Keynes (3-4 days onsite) - Salary circa £90,000 to £95,000

Are you an experienced Financial Controller with prior experience setting up a Finance function from scratch? If so, read on:

A Private Equity–backed, high-growth business services group is seeking a Financial Controller to play a critical role in scaling and professionalising the finance function. The business is executing an ambitious buy-and-build strategy, creating an exciting opportunity to shape finance operations, strengthen controls, and build a best-in-class finance team to support rapid growth and future exit.

This is a senior leadership role with broad ownership across financial control, reporting, governance and business partnering, alongside a key mandate to build and develop transactional and management accounting teams as the group continues to expand.

As Financial Controller, you will take end-to-end ownership of financial control and reporting across a growing multi-entity group. You will ensure robust processes, strong governance and high-quality financial information to support senior leadership and PE stakeholders.

A core element of the role will be designing, building and leading your own finance team, covering transactional finance (AP & AR) as well as management accounting, creating scalable structures and processes fit for a PE environment.

• Identify and resolve accounting, control and process issues across the group
• Oversee finance transactions, consolidations and intercompany processes to ensure accuracy and compliance
• Lead the development and continuous improvement of accounting processes, controls and reporting standards
• Act as system owner for financial software, maintaining data integrity and scalable structures
• Manage internal and external audit relationships, acting as the primary point of contact
• Own robust month-end and period-end processes, including reconciliations, reviews and control sign-off

• Lead internal and external reporting, including statutory accounts and group reporting
• Own overhead budgeting, rolling forecasts and cashflow forecasting
• Translate complex financial information into meaningful insight for non-finance stakeholders

• Build, lead and develop a transactional finance function (AP & AR) and a management accounting team
• Design scalable team structures to support organic growth and acquisitions
• Assist with finance resourcing strategy and succession planning

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA)
• Strong post-qualification experience within a PE-backed, high-growth or multi-entity environment
• Proven experience across statutory reporting, financial control, forecasting and governance
• Demonstrated ability to build, manage and develop finance teams
• Confident communicator, able to influence senior stakeholders and non-finance leaders
• Detail-oriented, with a track record of improving processes and controls in scaling businesses