Group Financial Controller

Pro-Recruitment Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Interim Group Financial Controller to enhance their short-term cash flow forecasting and manage cash repatriation from overseas entities. This pivotal role involves developing a robust cash flow forecast, leading financial control activities, and ensuring compliance with financial regulations. You will coordinate with various departments, drive improvements in working capital reporting, and manage a team of Finance Controllers. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in a large international organization while working in a hybrid environment. If you are a qualified accountant with a strong background in financial control, this role could be the perfect fit for you.

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant with experience at Group-level Financial Control.
• Strong experience in cash flow models and intercompany processes.

Responsibilities

• Embed a 13-week cash flow forecast and oversee cash repatriation.
• Lead monthly close and ensure compliance with financial regulations.

Skills

Financial Control

Cash Flow Forecasting

Intercompany Processes

Audit Readiness

Leadership

SAP

Shared Services

Education

Qualified Accountant

Tools

SAP

Job description

Pro-Recruitment Group provided pay range

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Base pay range

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Associate Director @ Pro-Finance Recruitment | Not-for-Profit Recruitment Expert

Group Financial Controller | up to £700 per day (Umbrella) | Hybrid | London | 12-months +

For a large international organisation, we are recruiting an Interim Group Financial Controller to focus on their short-term cash flow forecast model, intercompany, and trapped cash. Critically, this role will fully implement and embed the use of a 13-week short term cashflow forecast and will oversee the cash repatriation to the UK from overseas entities, liaising with Treasury, Tax, FP&A, Group Statutory Reporting, and the MSP. The Group Financial Controller will also lead monthly close, balance sheet integrity, intercompany processes and compliance, and develop insight and understanding of the company’s working capital to drive initiatives to optimise.

Main Duties:

• Fully develop and embed the short-term 13-week cash flow forecast and process notes with the goal of transferring this to the MSP
• Coordinate work across Financial Control, Tax, and Treasury to improve cash repatriations to the UK (trapped cash)
• Leadership of change across global financial control activities including monthly-close, balance sheet integrity, intercompany processes and financial regulation compliance
• Partner with business units and regions to support change in the transactional finance activities, monthly close and financial compliance is carried out.
• Lead multiple stakeholders across territories to ensure consistent standards and performance including interaction with the MSP
• Drive improvement in understanding and reporting of working capital across the group and entities
• Key role in co-ordinating activity across Treasury, Tax, FP&A, Group Statutory reporting and the Managed Service Provider as well as overseas Finance teams to maximise accuracy
• Ensure strong Audit readiness, managing relationships with internal / external auditors
• Line management of 3 Finance Controllers (functional and business units)

Person Specification:

• Qualified Accountant with proven experience at Group-level Financial Control
• Experience of embedding and managing short-term cash-flow models and forecasting
• Experience of trapped cash and the repatriation of cash across multiple territories to the UK
• Strong intercompany experience
• Strong experience of bid data
• Experience of leading a geographically dispersed and culturally diverse team
• Experience leading a Finance team supporting multiple business models
• Experience working in a matrix management structure
• SAP experience
• Shared Services experience
• Experience of leading large change projects / initiatives

Seniority level

Director

Employment type

Temporary

Job function

Accounting/Auditing, Analyst, and Finance

Industries

Education, Non-profit Organizations, and Civic and Social Organizations