Commercial Focused Financial Controller

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

Job summary

A fast-growing, PE-backed SME in Derby seeks a Financial Controller to drive financial reporting and strategic insight. This role offers a high-impact opportunity to work closely with the CFO and lead a finance team, enhancing controls and processes as the business scales.

Benefits

Private Medical

25 Days Holiday

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with a strong grounding in commercial finance.
• Experience in manufacturing, engineering, or product-based environments.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and margin analysis.
• Building and leading a small finance team.
• Embedding finance into commercial conversations and operational strategy.

Skills

Strategic Insight

Financial Control

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Proactive Problem Solving

Education

ACCA

CIMA

ACA

Job description

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.

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