Interim Financial Controller

ALF Recruit; Boothstown; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite parking

Hybrid work: 1 day in the office

Full employee benefits

Job summary

ALF Recruit is seeking an Interim Financial Controller to manage group financial control across multiple entities, with a complex intercompany structure. The role is hybrid, with one day in the Salford Quays office, on a 6-month FTC basis and potential extension.

The ideal candidate is a qualified ACCA/CIMA/ACA with multi-entity experience, strong stakeholder management, and openness to evolving processes. Audit exposure is advantageous for this demanding, high-visibility position.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with ACCA/CIMA/ACA
• Experience in multi-entity group structure with intercompany dynamics
• Strong stakeholder management across seniority levels
• Audit exposure would be advantageous

Responsibilities

• Own group financial control across multiple trading entities
• Prepare high-level management accounts and reconciliations
• Manage intercompany recharges and consolidations
• Lead multiple projects while maintaining day-to-day numbers
• Collaborate with senior leadership, entity finance teams and external advisers
• Improve processes as the group evolves and take on ad hoc projects

Skills

Stakeholder management

Multi-entity group experience

Open mindset

Audit exposure

Education

ACCA / CIMA / ACA

Job description

Interim Financial Controller Circa 100,000 Salford Quays (Hybrid - 1 day in the office) 6 Month FTC

ALF Recruit have been retained exclusively to recruit an Interim Financial Controller for a complex, multi-entity service sector organisation, on an initial 6-month fixed term contract with a genuine view to extend or move permanent.

This is a role for someone who genuinely enjoys complexity rather than just coping with it. The group's structure spans multiple trading entities with intercompany dynamics and reporting lines that don't always run in a straight line, and it's still evolving. You'll need an open mind, the ability to run several projects at once without losing grip on the day-to-day numbers, and the stakeholder skills to work across senior leadership, entity-level finance teams and external advisers.

What you'll get

• Circa 100,000
• 6 month fixed term contract with a genuine view to extend or go permanent
• Flexible working - one day a week in the office
• Exposure to a genuinely complex, multi-entity group structure at FC level
• Onsite parking included
• The client's preference is for this to be an employed 6 month fixed term contract with full employee benefits, though they're open to a conversation about an interim arrangement on a day rate for the right candidate

What you'll be doing

• Taking ownership of Group financial control across multiple trading entities
• Preparing high-level management accounts and reporting, including accompanying reconciliations
• Managing intercompany dynamics, recharges and consolidations across the group
• Running multiple projects and priorities concurrently, without losing grip on day-to-day numbers
• Working closely with senior leadership, entity-level finance teams and external advisers
• Building and improving process as the group continues to evolve, rather than inheriting something fixed
• Picking up a number of ad hoc projects as they arise, and being prepared to support the wider finance team in ensuring whatever needs doing "gets done"

What we're looking for

• Qualified accountant - ACCA, CIMA or ACA
• Financial Controller experience within a multi-entity or group structure, ideally with real complexity - multiple legal entities, intercompany recharges, consolidations
• A genuinely open mind - comfortable that the answer today might not be the answer next month
• Strong stakeholder management skills across varying levels of seniority
• Comfortable with a lean, mostly-remote working pattern, self-directed but collaborative when it counts
• Audit exposure would be advantageous

If you are a Senior Finance professional who wants a genuinely complex, evolving environment rather than a steady-state finance function, this is well worth a conversation.