Financial Controller - Fixed-Term-Contract

BCA; England; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite parking

Company Pension Scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Mental Health First Aiders

BCA Rewards

Job summary

BCA is seeking a Financial Controller on a fixed-term contract based in Blackbushe with a hybrid work pattern (2-3 days in the office). The role leads end-to-end finance processes, supports ERP implementation, and provides strategic financial insight across UK Retail accounting and Group Finance.

You will manage month-end close, balance sheet reconciliations, and reporting, while driving process improvements and coordinating with external auditors.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent
• Proven experience as Financial Controller or similar role
• Strong technical accounting knowledge
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Confident communicator with ability to influence stakeholders
• Advanced Excel and experience with financial systems/ERPs
• Proactive, resilient, and able to meet deadlines
• Commercial mindset with continuous improvement
• Experience in ERP implementations
• Previous team management experience

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end finance processes and month-end close activities
• Maintain strong relationships with Finance Shared Services for accurate accounts
• Prepare and review monthly management accounts for UK Retail Accounting and Group Finance
• Act as primary BCAOS contact for Group Finance
• Maintain a strong financial control environment with reconciliations and issue resolution
• Ensure compliance with accounting standards, tax regulations and policies
• Lead on accounting treatment of complex financial matters
• Support external audits and regulatory requirements
• Oversee cash flow, working capital controls and financial risk monitoring
• Deliver timely financial reporting to senior management
• Support budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning with regional finance
• Review and submit weekly 13-week cash flow forecasts
• Build relationships with key stakeholders across the business
• ERP Implementation & Finance Transformation: support ERP deployment and data migration
• Work with IT and project teams to meet milestones and post-go-live stabilisation
• Help design COA, data migration and reporting requirements
• Participate in UAT, training and business change
• Promote best practices and efficiency across finance processes
• Team Leadership: coach and develop finance team
• Ensure BAU remains stable during ERP activity
• Foster continuous improvement and accountability

Skills

Financial analysis

ERP implementations

Team leadership

Budgeting

Forecasting

Stakeholder management

Advanced Excel

Audit support

Communication

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

About The Role

Job Title: Financial Controller – Fixed-Term-Contract
Salary: £72,000 - £85,000 (experience dependent) plus bonus and car allowance
Location: Hybrid, Blackbushe (2-3 days in the office per week)
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week (8:30am-5:30pm)
Job Status: Fixed-Term-Contract until February 2028

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At BCA, we're altogether, more. More than a normal vehicle remarketing company. More than any other place to work. We're Europe's largest vehicle remarketing company, the backbone of the UK’s automotive supply chain, the best place to build the career you want.

Main Purpose of The Role:

As Financial Controller, you will be responsible for ensuring robust financial control, accurate reporting, and compliance with both statutory and BCA requirements across BCAOS.

Working closely with senior stakeholders, the UK Retail accounting team, Finance Shared Services (FSS) and regional finance teams, you will provide valuable financial insight to support decision-making and drive business performance.

This role will also play a key part in the implementation of a new ERP system within BCAOS, helping to shape future finance processes and ensuring a successful transition from project delivery into business-as-usual operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end finance processes and month-end close activities, ensuring accuracy, completeness and timeliness of reporting.
• Maintain strong relationships with Finance Shared Services to ensure transactional activity is accurately reflected in the accounts.
• Prepare and review monthly management accounts, ensuring timely submissions to UK Retail Accounting and Group Finance.
• Act as the primary BCAOS contact for Group Finance, maintaining effective communication and collaboration.
• Maintain a strong financial control environment, including balance sheet reconciliations, reviews and issue resolution.
• Ensure compliance with accounting standards, financial policies, tax regulations and statutory requirements.
• Lead on the accounting treatment of technical and complex financial matters.
• Support external audit activities and requirements.
• Oversee cash flow management, working capital controls and financial risk monitoring.
• Deliver accurate and timely financial reporting to senior management.
• Support budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning processes in partnership with the regional finance team.
• Review and submit weekly 13-week cash flow forecasts while proactively monitoring significant cash movements.
• Build and manage strong relationships with key stakeholders across the business.

  ERP Implementation & Finance Transformation

• Support the implementation of a new ERP system, ensuring finance requirements and controls are embedded within the solution.
• Work closely with senior stakeholders, IT teams, project teams and external partners to deliver project milestones.
• Support chart of accounts design, data migration, reconciliations, controls implementation and reporting requirements.
• Support finance activities associated with user acceptance testing (UAT), training, business change and post-go-live stabilisation.
• Help drive the successful transition of new processes into business-as-usual operations.

  Team Leadership

• Manage, coach, and develop members of the finance team.
• Ensure BAU workloads remain stable and controlled before and during ERP activity.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and high professional standards.
• Promote best practice, change adoption and efficiency across end-to-end finance processes.

Knowledge and Experience Required:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Proven experience in a Financial Controller or similar role.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Confident communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with financial systems/ERPs.
• Proactive, resilient, and able to work to deadlines.
• Commercially minded with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Ability to work on both BAU and implementation activity at the same time.
• Experience in ERP systems implementations.
• Previous team management experience.

We've put everything in place to ensure you thrive. Competitive salaries, strong core values and an excellent benefits package that includes:

• Onsite parking
• Company Pension Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• An Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• Access to trained Mental Health First Aiders
• Access to BCA Rewards which provides online and store discounts with a range of retailers

And so much more...

As the automotive industry changes, we're changing with it - putting our people in the front seat for the journey. We're the number one in what we do for a reason and that's because of the people we have on our teams. If you want to be a part of a business like this; unrivalled, exciting and appreciative of the work you do, join BCA.
We are proud to be Level 1 Disability Confident and committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.
Our policy is to employ the best qualified people and provide equal opportunity for the advancement of employees including promotion and training and not to discriminate against any person because of gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief, or disability.

£72,000 - £85,000 (experience dependent) plus bonus and car allowance

£72,000 - £85,000 (experience dependent) plus bonus and car allowance