Interim Financial Controller

Partner Group; Reading; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Partner Financial is assisting a high-growth technology client in Reading to appoint an Interim Financial Controller. The role focuses on strengthening financial controls, resolving complex accounting issues, and enabling scalable finance processes within an evolving, international growth context.

The ideal candidate is a fully qualified ACA/ACCA with IFRS experience, strong technical accounting skills, and prior exposure to large-scale financial control environments.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA or equivalent).
• Experience as Financial Controller or senior financial accounting role.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge and balance-sheet reconciliations.

Responsibilities

• Strengthen financial controls across key cycles (purchase-to-pay, order-to-cash, payroll, fixed assets, close).
• Lead root-cause analysis of control weaknesses and implement sustainable solutions.
• Resolve complex accounting issues and provide audit-ready documentation.
• Support month-end and year-end close, deliver timely financial information.
• Assist with statutory reporting, audit working papers and documentation.
• Improve processes, controls and procedures for accuracy and scalability.
• Assist with accounting policies embedding in day-to-day operations.
• Utilize NetSuite to improve processes and reduce manual work.
• Collaborate with Finance, Tech and stakeholders to resolve reporting issues.

Skills

IFRS knowledge

Control weaknesses

Audit experience

Education

ACA/ACCA or equivalent

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

Partner Financial is working with a high-growth technology business operating at the forefront of an emerging and highly innovative sector. The organisation is entering an exciting phase of international growth supported by significant investment and an expanding global footprint.

This is an opportunity to join the business at an important stage of its development, as it transitions from a development-led organisation into a more mature, commercially focused and scalable operation. The finance function is evolving alongside the wider business, creating a need for an experienced Financial Controller to strengthen financial controls, resolve complex accounting issues and drive improvements across finance processes and systems.

Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, the Interim Financial Controller will take ownership of a range of financial control, accounting and remediation workstreams. This is a hands-on role suited to someone who enjoys getting into the detail, identifying the root cause of issues and implementing practical, sustainable solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strengthening and enhancing the financial control environment across key finance cycles, including purchase-to-pay, order-to-cash, payroll, fixed assets and financial close.
• Leading the investigation of control weaknesses, taking issues from root-cause analysis through to implementation, testing and handover.
• Resolving complex accounting issues and balance-sheet reconciliations, identifying and addressing underlying process, system or control weaknesses.
• Supporting month-end and year-end close activities, ensuring financial information is accurate, well supported and delivered within required deadlines.
• Preparing and reviewing elements of statutory reporting, audit working papers and supporting documentation, ensuring the finance function remains audit-ready.
• Reviewing and improving finance processes, controls and procedures to increase accuracy, efficiency and scalability.
• Supporting the implementation of accounting policies and ensuring these are effectively embedded within day-to-day finance operations.
• Utilising finance systems, including NetSuite, to improve processes, strengthen controls and reduce unnecessary manual activity.
• Working collaboratively with Finance, Technology and other stakeholders to resolve systems, data and process issues affecting financial reporting.

The Ideal Candidate:

• A fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent)
• Proven experience operating in a Financial Controller or senior financial accounting capacity, with a track record of identifying control weaknesses and implementing practical, sustainable solutions.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge, including a good understanding of IFRS and experience resolving complex accounting and reconciliation matters.
• Experience with NetSuite or a similar modern finance system would be beneficial.
• Ideally, exposure to an international group environment, overseas entity setup or finance transformation.
• Previous exposure to internal control frameworks such as SOX would be advantageous.
• Experience within a technology, start-up or scale-up environment would be advantageous.

We will be contacting candidates with the closest match to our client’s selection criteria to arrange an initial discussion. If you have not heard from us, thank you for your interest, but please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion. If you would like a confidential discussion regarding your current situation or other interim opportunities, please feel free to get in touch.