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Group Financial Controller

GLOBE-TROTTER

Hoddesdon

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GBP 70,000 - 100,000

Full time

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Job summary

An established luxury travel brand is seeking an Interim Group Financial Controller to lead financial reporting and controls. This role is pivotal in shaping the financial landscape of a global business, ensuring robust reporting and providing strategic insights across diverse markets. The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with extensive experience in production and retail, adept at navigating change and driving collective success. Join a company synonymous with British heritage and craftsmanship, where your contributions will significantly impact the organization’s growth and success.

Qualifications

Qualified accountant with significant post qualification experience.
Experience in managing financial reporting across diverse markets.

Responsibilities

Establish reporting and controls framework for the Group.
Provide robust financial reporting and assist operating businesses.

Skills

Financial Reporting

Interpersonal Skills

ERP Systems

Accountability

Agility

Education

Qualified Accountant

Tools

ERP Systems

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Synonymous with great British design and heritage, Globe-Trotter is a luxury travel lifestyle brand producing handcrafted luggage and leather collections. Established in 1897, Globe-Trotter makes the most beautiful, durable and recognizable luggage in the world. The business has been Private Equity backed since 2020.

Globe-Trotter is a truly global business trading in more than 80 countries, with significant brand awareness in Japan, Europe and the USA and an increasing footprint in the GCC, China and South-East Asia. The Group has several international subsidiaries, including entities in Japan, USA and throughout Europe.

With exciting growth plans we are looking for an Interim Group Financial Controller.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

As the Group Financial Controller, you will play a key role in establishing the right reporting and controls framework for the Group. You will be hands-on and provide robust financial reporting and assist the operating businesses with all financial matters, providing clear and pragmatic challenge where appropriate.

Requirements of the role

Qualified accountant with significant post qualification experience.
Experience of working in an International Group with a good understanding of managing financial reporting across diverse markets.
Experience of working in production, retail, and multi-site operations.
You will have experience of using ERP systems.
Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to be persuasive, engaging and motivating with others in a consistent manner.
Ability to adapt and embrace change.
The ability to work at a pace, in a structured way.

Candidate Attributes

Be accountable - Accountability and always acting like an owner of the business. The successful candidate will have to be a self-starter, driven to ride obstacles, and relentless in the pursuit of challenging objectives.
Be brave - Delivering value to the business and organization above and beyond expectations and consistently striving to achieve new goals.
Be pragmatic - Leveraging the best of the existing systems, solutions and resources, with agility and speed, as you develop and lead change.
Be collaborative – Looking to drive collective success. A positive attitude, assuming good intent in colleagues always.
Be agile - Proven ability to design and manage change.
Be entrepreneurial - Acting like an entrepreneur, with a real sense of ownership and urgency in all important matters and able to combine long term strategy and goals, with the short-term results and delivery.

Seniority level

Seniority level
Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type
Contract

Job function

Job function
Finance and Accounting/Auditing
Industries
Retail Luxury Goods and Jewelry, Manufacturing, and Retail

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