Group Financial Controller

Trafalgar Entertainment; Woking; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An award-winning live-entertainment business in the UK is seeking a Group Financial Controller to lead financial control, reporting, and compliance. This broad, hands-on leadership position requires strong technical accounting skills and proven experience as a senior finance leader. The ideal candidate will drive financial discipline and support strategic initiatives, managing a high-performing finance team and delivering transformative processes across the organization. Interested applicants should apply for a recruitment pack.

Qualifications

• The candidate must be ACA or ACCA qualified with strong accounting foundations.
• Proven experience as a Group Financial Controller required.
• Experience in delivering finance transformation and process improvement is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Group’s financial control, reporting, and compliance.
• Drive financial discipline and enhance reporting processes.
• Support strategic initiatives and manage a high-performing finance team.

Skills

Strong technical accounting foundations

Finance transformation experience

Leadership and team management

Commercial mindset

Tax compliance management

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.