Financial Controller

Rutherford Briant; Essex; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Rutherford Briant is exclusively recruiting a Financial Controller for a PE-backed specialist services business in Essex. You will take ownership of the day-to-day finance function and work closely with the CFO and senior leadership to drive robust financial control and commercial insight.

This role focuses on strengthening controls, reporting, and systems while supporting acquisition activity and ensuring finance provides the insight required for confident decision-making in a growing group.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant or strong qualified-by-experience candidate.
• Experience in managing a busy finance function.
• Strong in management reporting, cash flow, controls and statutory requirements.
• Commercially aware and confident with operational leaders.
• Comfortable improving systems and processes within a changing business.
• Able to balance hands-on delivery with longer-term development.
• Ambitious, adaptable and keen to grow with the company.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day finance function and deliver robust financial control.
• Strengthen reporting, controls, and processes across the finance function.
• Lead on systems improvements and contribution to finance transformation.
• Support integration of acquisitions and provide insight for decision-making.
• Collaborate with CFO and senior leadership to drive commercial growth.

Skills

Qualified accountant

Experience managing finance function

Management reporting

Cash flow

Controls and statutory requirements

Commercial mindset

Systems and processes improvement

Hands-on to strategic balance

Ambitious and adaptable

Job description

Rutherford Briant is exclusively recruiting a Financial Controller for a successful, PE-backed specialist services business entering an exciting new stage of its development.

The company has grown significantly in recent years and has ambitious plans to continue expanding both organically and through acquisition. They are looking to add a dynamic FC to the leadership team to support the next phase of growth.

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious Financial Controller who wants to be much closer to the commercial development of a business than a traditional reporting-focused role might allow.

Working closely with the CFO and senior leadership team, you will take ownership of the day-to-day finance function while helping to strengthen the controls, reporting, systems and processes needed within a growing group. You will also play an important role in integrating future acquisitions and ensuring finance provides the insight required to support confident decision-making.

The business is looking for someone who combines strong financial control with a practical and commercial mindset. You will be comfortable getting into the detail when required, but equally capable of stepping back, identifying improvements and helping shape how the finance function develops.

This could suit an established Financial Controller looking for a more ambitious environment which will take their career to the next level.

The successful candidate is likely to be:

• A qualified accountant, or a strong qualified-by-experience candidate
• Experienced in managing a busy finance function
• Strong across management reporting, cash flow, controls and statutory requirements
• Commercially aware and confident working with operational leaders
• Comfortable improving systems and processes within a changing business
• Able to balance hands-on delivery with longer-term development
• Ambitious, adaptable and keen to grow alongside the company

For someone who wants to join a business with genuine momentum and play a visible part in its future growth, this represents a particularly attractive Financial Controller opportunity.

Rutherford Briant is passionate about equity, diversity, and inclusion. We seek individuals from the widest talent pool and encourage underrepresented talent to apply to vacancies with us. We are committed to recruitment processes that are fair for all, regardless of background and personal characteristics.