Interim Financial Controller

Coyne & Associates; England; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Coyne & Associates is seeking an Interim Financial Controller for a 6-month contract based in Reading & South Coast. The role involves leading financial reporting, acting as a strategic business partner, and ensuring successful integration of newly acquired entities. Ideal candidates will have proven experience in financial management across multi-entity environments, with a focus on post-acquisition integration and stakeholder management.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an interim or project-led Financial Controller, ideally across multi-entity and multi-site environments.
• Strong track record in post-acquisition integration—both system and team-focused.
• Hands-on, pragmatic, and adaptable—able to get into the detail while influencing strategically.
• Confident stakeholder manager with the ability to drive change in dynamic settings.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial reporting for the newly acquired entities, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and alignment with group standards.
• Act as a strategic business partner to operational and leadership teams across multiple sites, embedding commercial insight and financial discipline.
• Prepare businesses for system migration to the group-wide platform, ensuring readiness and smooth transition.
• Assess, reshape, and support local finance teams—this may involve streamlining structures or recruiting key additions.
• Contribute to group-wide finance structure optimisation, aligning people, systems, and processes for scale.

Skills

Financial Reporting

Post-Acquisition Integration

Stakeholder Management

Hands-on and Pragmatic Approach

Job description

Interim Financial Controller – 6-Month Contract
Location: Reading & South Coast

Start: ASAP |Duration: 6 months (initially)
Day Rate: Competitive (Outside IR35 or FTC considered)

We’re working with a dynamic and acquisitive group going through a significant period of transformation. Following four recent acquisitions, the business is seeking an experienced Interim Financial Controller to support integration and help shape the next stage of the finance function.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead financial reporting for the newly acquired entities, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and alignment with group standards

• Act as a strategic business partner to operational and leadership teams across multiple sites, embedding commercial insight and financial discipline

• Prepare businesses for system migration to the group-wide platform, ensuring readiness and smooth transition

• Assess, reshape, and support local finance teams—this may involve streamlining structures or recruiting key additions

• Contribute to group-wide finance structure optimisation, aligning people, systems, and processes for scale

Ideal Profile:

• Proven experience as an interim or project-led Financial Controller, ideally across multi-entity and multi-site environments

• Strong track record in post-acquisition integration—both system and team-focused

• Hands-on, pragmatic, and adaptable—able to get into the detail while influencing strategically

• Confident stakeholder manager with the ability to drive change in dynamic settings

This is a pivotal assignment in a business undergoing rapid change. If you're delivery-focused, commercially minded, and excited by integration and transformation, we’d love to hear from you.