Financial Controller (FTC)

Engitix Therapeutics; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading biotech company is seeking a Financial Controller to oversee financial operations, ensuring integrity and compliance. This role requires a fully qualified accountant with a proactive mindset and the ability to communicate complex financial matters effectively. Join a dynamic team dedicated to advancing drug discovery and improving patient outcomes.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Bonus

Pension

State of the art offices

Continuous learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant with ACA, ACCA, or CIMA.
• Experience in a small company environment, preferably in biotech or pharma.
• Strong curiosity and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Maintain financial health, ensuring accurate financial transaction recording.
• Manage financial operations including AP, AR, payroll, and expenses.
• Oversee audit processes and compliance with relevant regulations.

Skills

Attention to detail

Problem-solving

Communication

Proactivity

Education

ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualification

Job description

Your mission

This is a fixed-term contract ending in October 2026, to cover a period of maternity leave.

As Financial Controller at Engitix, you will play a pivotal role, acting as the backbone of our financial operations. This position is responsible for maintaining our financial health and integrity, ensuring all financial transactions are accurately recorded, and overseeing all aspects of financial management, including regulatory and financial reporting, as well as the development of internal control policies and procedures. This role is not just about crunching numbers, but about contributing to our overall success by providing financial insights that drive business growth. The role manages a small team (currently 1 FTE).

Key Responsibilities

Financial operations

• AP, AR, payroll and expenses – automate these as ‘one touch’ processes that ensure the right amounts are paid at the right time with the minimum of effort.
• Tax and treasury – work with our bankers and advisors to maximise working capital by ensuring timely submission of R&D tax credit and VAT returns and using weekly cash flow forecasts to manage returns from deposits and foreign currencies.
• Develop and maintain an integrated suite of IT systems that automates routine operations and will scale as the company grows, both in size and geographic locations.
  
  

Recording and reporting

• Maintain financial records in a fit for purpose general ledger (supported by subledgers as necessary) that acts as a single source of the truth, integrating with other systems (including Amici and Actitime).
• Standardise and operate a 3 working day close process.
• Performance reporting:
• Year to date actuals versus budget, quarterly and full year reporting forecasts at both a company and department level (P&L, cashflow statement and, where applicable, balance sheet).
• Supporting partnership project manager(s) generating budgets, tracking costs and in invoicing and recharging of costs.

Controls and compliance

• Document and operate processes and controls to safeguard the tangible (i.e. fixed) and financial assets and health of the company that are appropriate to our size and circumstances.
• Maintain the control framework to an acceptable level risk, always ensuring compliance with all relevant statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Manage the audit process to deliver an unqualified audit opinion, providing all technical accounting support as needed.
  
  

Your profile

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)
• A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with the drive to improve systems and processes
• Strong curiosity and attention to detail to identify and resolve issues/explain variances
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex financial matters to the wider business
• Experience in a small company environment; biotech or pharma experience is a strong plus
  
  

Why us?

• Be part of a motivated, dynamic team supporting cutting edge drug discovery
• Constant opportunities to learn and grow your skills
• State of the art offices at The Westworks, White CityLondon
• Competitive reward package including private medical insurance, bonus, pension, and much more!
  
  

About Us

Engitix is a growing biotech company based in White City Place, West London. We are dedicated to developing better therapies for advanced fibrosis and solid tumours by leveraging our pioneering extracellular matrix (ECM) platform. Our platform allows the synthesis of realistic in vitro 3D models that serve as tools to transform our ability to identify new targets and biomarkers, determine mechanisms of action and more accurately predict the efficacy of therapeutic candidates.

Join us today in our mission to create a healthier future for patients with life-threatening diseases such as fibrosis and cancer.