Financial Controller

M Group; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

M Group seeks a Finance Manager to lead financial accounting and control activities within our Finance department. You will oversee a small team, ensuring compliance, improving processes, and enhancing financial governance. This role is ideal for someone experienced in financial management in a dynamic, growth-focused organization.

Benefits

Matched or contributory pension scheme

Online GP service, 24/7

Employee assistance programme

Cycle to work, salary finance schemes

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Private health care for you and your family

Discretionary bonus scheme

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant with previous financial control experience.
• Experience in multi-faceted organizations, ideally construction/infrastructure.
• Track record in improving reporting timelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial accounting and control activities.
• Manage balance sheet integrity and cashflow forecasting.
• Ownership of month-end reporting and reconciliations.

Skills

Financial Control Experience

Strong Relationships

Hands-on Detail Orientation

Education

Qualified Accountant

Tools

ERP/Oracle

Job description

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

As an organisation, there is little we don’t do and plenty to get involved in. Our Group Support roles are vital in making sure we can help over 11,000 people deliver essential infrastructure seamlessly across water, energy, transport and telecom.

This role is in our Finance department, our finance team is responsible for the financial management of our Group. This includes financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.

Want to come and be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

Reporting to the Head of Financial Control, you will lead financial accounting and control activities in close collaboration with Group Finance. You will manage a small team and ensure strong financial governance, with responsibility for balance sheet integrity, accurate cashflow forecasting, and serving as the main point of contact for audit and tax. The role includes ownership of month-end and entity-level reporting, covering reconciliations, journal entries, and intercompany recharges, all delivered in line with Group deadlines.

You will also support the integration of acquisitions, contribute to finance-related Oracle projects, and help transition finance activities to Shared Services. A key focus will be on improving processes, enhancing financial insight, strengthening internal controls, and ensuring compliance with Group standards. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and brings a strong focus on accuracy, efficiency, and continuous improvement.

What You’ll Bring

• Qualified Accountant
• Previous Financial Control Experience
• Able to be hands on and to get into the detail.
• Has improved / accelerated reporting timelines and enhanced reporting depth for Group / PE owned businesses within short timescales.
• System Implementation ERP/Oracle experience beneficial.
• Exposure to multi-faceted / field force organisations, ideally with infrastructure / construction industry experience or similar.
• Track record of quickly building strong relationships across business.
  
  

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme
  
  

In addition, this role offers;

• Company car or allowance and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you and your family
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!
  
  

About Us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
  
  

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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