Commercial Focused Financial Controller

Robert Walters; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is searching for a Commercial Focused Financial Controller to join its financial department. This mid-senior role in Derby involves financial reporting and strategic input, with a salary between £70,000-£75,000. The ideal candidate is a qualified accountant experienced in commercial finance within a manufacturing environment, eager to drive financial insight across the business.

Benefits

Bonus

Private medical insurance

25 days holiday

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with a strong grounding in commercial finance.
• Experience from a manufacturing environment is preferred.
• Ability to challenge financial numbers and provide strategic insights.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and margin analysis.
• Involvement in pricing, production, and R&D decisions.
• Building and leading a small finance team.

Skills

Commercial finance expertise

Financial control

Strategic insight

Cross-functional collaboration

Proactivity

Education

Qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA)

Job description

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We’re partnering with a fast-growing, PE-backed SME in Derby to recruit a commercially focused Financial Controller — someone confident both in financial reporting and in driving strategic insight across the wider business. The company operates as a diverse group of businesses with revenues around £40M.

What’s On Offer

• A high-impact, commercially focused Financial Controller role — combining ownership of reporting, budgeting, forecasting and margin analysis with hands-on input into pricing, production and R&D decisions.
• Genuine seat at the table: working alongside the CFO and wider leadership team to embed finance more deeply into commercial conversations and operational strategy.
• Visibility across a broad business — from the Derbyshire manufacturing base to international territories, ecommerce performance and future M&A activity.
• Opportunity to build and lead a small finance team while improving controls, systems and processes as the business scales.
  
  

What They’re Looking For

• A qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA) with a strong grounding in commercial finance, ideally from a manufacturing, engineering or product-based environment.
• Someone who can blend financial control with strategic insight — capable of producing the numbers, but also challenging them.
• Confident working cross-functionally with non-finance stakeholders (think ops, engineering, commercial).
• Naturally proactive, curious, and solutions-focused — someone who thrives in fast-moving, evolving environments.
  
  

The role will be based primarily on site, certainly initially as relationships are formed etc.

Package wise, the business are offering £70,000-£75,000 per annum, plus a bonus, private medical, and 25 days holiday.

Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing and Finance

• Industries

  Staffing and Recruiting

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