Financial Controller

Pattern

Greater London

On-site

GBP 60,000 - 80,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

28 days Holiday (increasing to 32 days)

Competitive salary

Private Medical Insurance

Enhanced Pension Scheme

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave

Cycle to Work Scheme

Regular company socials

Job summary

Medium is looking for a Financial Controller to oversee the financial control environment for Pattern Europe. This senior role requires a qualified accountant with experience in UK GAAP and oversight of statutory audits across multiple entities.

You will lead a team, shape financial reporting tools, and collaborate cross-functionally to underpin a complex business structure.

Working at Medium offers hybrid work flexibility, competitive salary, and excellent benefits including a generous holiday scheme and private medical insurance.

Qualifications

Post-qualification experience in financial control or similar role is required.
Experience preparing or managing statutory accounts under UK GAAP/FRS 102.
Familiarity with multi-entity or multi-jurisdictional structures.

Responsibilities

Own the month-end close process for UK, German, and Polish entities.
Manage the statutory audit processes and lead annual financial statements preparation.
Partner with commercial and operations teams to ensure financial data is accurate.

Skills

Qualified accountant (ACA or ACCA)

Strong analytical capability

Confident communicator

Attention to detail

Experience with financial systems and BI tools

Education

Qualified accountant (ideally Big-4 trained)

Tools

Netsuite

Job description

Pattern accelerates brands on global ecommerce marketplaces leveraging proprietary technology and AI. Utilising more than 66 trillion data points, sophisticated machine learning and AI models, Pattern optimizes and automates all levers of ecommerce growth for global brands, including advertising, content management, logistics and fulfillment, pricing, forecasting and customer service. Hundreds of global brands depend on Pattern’s ecommerce acceleration platform every day to drive profitable revenue growth across 60+ global marketplaces—including Amazon, Walmart.com, Target.com, eBay, Tmall, TikTok Shop, JD, and Mercado Libre. To learn more, visit pattern.com

We are looking for a Financial Controller to take ownership of the core financial control environment for Pattern Europe. This is a senior, hands‑on role with broad accountability — spanning revenue recognition, partner invoicing, statutory reporting, audit, and the operational finance infrastructure that underpins a complex multi‑brand, multi‑marketplace business across three legal entities.

The successful candidate will lead two accountants in India, partner with the Global accounting team in Utah, as well as work closely with commercial finance and operational teams based in London. The role will play an important role in shaping how tools, controls and reporting evolve alongside the business.

What is the day in the life of a Financial Controller?

Own the month‑end close process for the UK, German and Polish entities, including review of journals, management of close deadlines, and collation of schedules and supporting reports — working in close partnership with the Global Accounting Team and the Europe Finance Director.
Regularly maintain detailed reconciliations of all balance sheet accounts, including intercompany positions, accruals, and prepayments, ensuring completeness and accuracy at each period end.
Manage the statutory audit processes and lead the preparation of the annual statutory financial statements in accordance with UK GAAP / FRS 102, coordinating with external auditors and functional teams.
Oversight of AR function and ensuring timely collections and aged debt management.
Ensure effective internal controls are in place to support compliance with GAAP and applicable regulatory requirements for financial and fiscal reporting.

Partner with the commercial and operations teams to ensure financial data accurately reflects the economics of the business — including marketplace revenue, marketplace fees, storage costs, and internal operational costs.
Respond to ad‑hoc information requests from internal and external stakeholders; exercise sound judgement in addressing or escalating issues as appropriate.
Support unit economics analysis and brand‑level profitability reporting, by ensuring the integrity of underlying data flowing into Netsuite.
Relationship with the centralised AP function, ensuring coding accuracy, timely supplier payments, and that the Europe team's needs are well represented.
Support the Finance Director and work directly with the accounting team to ensure accuracy and consistency across all financial outputs.

Identify and implement solutions to streamline and accelerate the month‑end close cycle, reducing manual effort and improving reliability.
Support the development of automated and scalable financial processes, working alongside the finance team's data and tooling workstreams, with a focus on improving the control framework and reporting efficiency as the business grows.

Partner with central
Support Global Tax teams in corporation tax calculations and liaising with external tax advisors on planning and compliance matters.
Develop a strong working knowledge of intercompany processes, and how they impact on the European P&Ls
Review lease accounting and ensure appropriate local GAAP adjustments are recorded for UK GAAP / FRS 102 and German HGB purposes, working closely with Global Accounting.

What will I need to thrive in this role?

Qualified accountant (ACA or ACCA), ideally Big‑4 trained and with post‑qualification experience in industry a financial control or similar role.
Prior exposure to ecommerce, marketplace, or consumer goods businesses preferred — comfort with high transaction volumes and revenue recognition.
Experience preparing or managing statutory accounts under UK GAAP / FRS 102; German HGB and IFRS familiarity an advantage.
Experience working with external auditors and managing year‑end audit processes.
Exposure to multi‑entity or multi‑jurisdictional structures.

High attention to detail with a structured, methodical approach to financial control.
Strong analytical capability — comfortable interrogating large datasets and working with finance systems and BI tools.
Confident communicator, able to translate financial information for non‑finance stakeholders and manage relationships with external advisors and auditors.
Self‑starter with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines in a fast‑paced environment.
Collaborative team player who can also work independently and take ownership of complex deliverables.
Curiosity about data, tooling, and process improvement — an interest in how finance teams leverage technology is a genuine advantage in this role.

Why should I work at Pattern?

Pattern offers big opportunities to make a difference in the ecommerce industry! We are a company full of talented people that evolve quickly and often. We set big goals, work tirelessly to achieve them, and we love our Pattern community. We also believe in having fun and balancing our lives, so we offer awesome benefits that include: