Group Financial Controller

Trafalgar Entertainment; Pirbright; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global arts organisation based in the UK is seeking a Group Financial Controller. This leadership role involves overseeing financial control, compliance, and reporting in a dynamic, private equity-backed environment. The ideal candidate will have ACA/ACCA qualifications and experience in financial transformation, managing audits, and leading finance teams to drive strategic initiatives. Interested applicants should reach out for a recruitment pack.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Group Financial Controller and senior finance leader.
• Hands-on approach with a willingness to drive change.
• Experience managing audits and tax compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial control, reporting, and compliance.
• Drive financial discipline and enhance reporting.
• Manage and develop a high-performing finance team.

Skills

Technical accounting foundations

Finance transformation and change

Statutory accounts management

Commercial mindset

Team leadership

Education

ACA / ACCA qualified

Job description

Trafalgar Entertainment, one of the UK's foremost arts organisations, is currently seeking a Group Financial Controller.

Founded by Sir Howard Panter and Dame Rosemary Squire in 2017, Trafalgar Entertainment is an award-winning global live-entertainment business focussed on new productions, venue operations, live music and comedy, events and hospitality, Performing Arts education, ticketing, the distribution and filming of event cinema and TV live-streaming (from David Tennant in Macbeth to Taylor Swift) and the provision of great spaces where people can come together to share in the experience of live entertainment. With a growing international footprint, we are fast paced and evolving, driven by a desire to deliver world-class experiences to audiences globally.

The Group Financial Controller will lead the Group's financial control, reporting and compliance in a fast-moving, private equity-backed entertainment business, and will play a key role in developing a best-in‑class finance capability to support the group through its next phase of growth.

This is a broad, hands‑on leadership position with responsibility for driving financial discipline, enhancing reporting, strengthening controls, and supporting strategic initiatives across the group. The role requires a strong people leader who can inspire, develop, and manage a high‑performing finance team, while remaining actively involved in shaping processes, driving change, and embedding transformation across the business.

The role requires a candidate with the following attributes.

• ACA / ACCA qualified with strong technical accounting foundations
• Proven experience as a Group Financial Controller and senior finance leader
• Demonstrable experience delivering finance transformation and change, including systems and process implementation / improvement
• Hands on approach with a willingness to roll up sleeves and drive change forward
• Commercially minded, resilient and comfortable operating in a fast‑paced, evolving environment
• Experience managing statutory accounts, audits and tax compliance

Interested applicants should email via the button below for a recruitment pack.