Interim Financial Controller – Global, Multi-Currency

Dweet LTD.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Invisible Collection is a leading global e-commerce business in luxury contemporary furniture, based in London, with operations across the UK, FR, US and SG.

The Interim Financial Controller will lead a focused balance sheet clean-up, oversee day-to-day accounting and group reporting, and support the FY2025 audit while ensuring robust financial controls and timely financial insight for executive leadership.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Financial Controller or Senior Finance Manager, preferably in a high-growth e-commerce or luxury retail environment.
• Proven track record of balance sheet clean-up / remediation projects.
• Strong technical accounting background with experience in group consolidation and multi-currency reporting.
• Strong understanding of stock, margin analysis, VAT, sales tax, FX and cross-border compliance.
• Knowledge of financial regulations and compliance, particularly in the UK, US and France.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
• Hands-on, detail-oriented and capable of operating autonomously to tight deadlines.
• Strong team leadership and communication skills, with the ability to work with international teams and senior stakeholders.
• ACA / ACCA / CIMA qualified (or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Support the completion of the ongoing FY2025 audit across the UK, FR and US entities, acting as a point of contact for the auditors alongside the CFO.
• Oversee and support the accountants in responding to audit requests, making sure information, reconciliations and supporting documents are accurate, complete and delivered on time.
• Track open audit queries and outstanding items, follow up on them, and help resolve audit findings and proposed adjustments.
• Make sure FY2025 audit adjustments are posted correctly and reflected in opening balances for 2026.
• Reconcile every balance sheet account across all entities to supporting documentation, sub-ledgers, bank statements and third-party confirmations.
• Investigate and clear unreconciled differences, aged items, suspense and clearing accounts. Prepare proposed adjustments, reclassifications and write-offs, with supporting evidence, for CFO approval.
• Review the accuracy of historical postings: correct miscoding, duplicate entries and misallocations, and make sure transactions sit in the correct account, entity, period and currency.
• Reconcile intercompany balances across all entities, resolve mismatches (including FX differences) and agree positions so they eliminate cleanly on consolidation.
• Keep a balance sheet tracker showing reconciliation status, open items, owners and target dates, and report progress to the CFO every week.
• Deliver a full year-end balance sheet analysis, with a reconciliation file, supporting schedules and a clear explanation for every balance.
• Prepare audit-ready working papers and set up the FY2026 audit so that requests can be answered quickly and in full.
• Set out a standard month-end reconciliation process so the balance sheet stays clean after year end.
• Ensure the margin analysis by country and product category is accurate and complete. Validate revenue, cost of sales, freight, duties and stock adjustments against the GL.
• Reconcile the margin analysis to the management accounts each month.
• Analyse and explain variances against target margin, identifying the drivers (pricing, discounting, supplier costs, FX, logistics, product mix).
• Report findings and recommended corrective actions to the CFO and MD.
• Oversee daily financial operations and month-end close across the UK, FR, US and SG, including reviewing reconciliations prepared by the accountants.
• Produce accurate monthly group management accounts, including multi-currency consolidation, intercompany eliminations and variance analysis.
• Maintain strong financial controls and ensure compliance with accounting standards, VAT/sales tax and local regulatory requirements.
• Own the general ledger and accounting policies, so that financial data stays accurate, consistent and intact.
• Support the CFO on Business Central projects, including chart of accounts clean-up, master data updates and process improvements that prevent posting errors.

Skills

Financial leadership

Consolidation

Multi-currency reporting

Audit liaison

Controls and reconciliations

Stakeholder management

Process improvement

Education

ACA / ACCA / CIMA qualified

Tools

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Job description

Invisible Collection is a leading global e-commerce business in luxury contemporary furniture, based in London, with operations across the UK, FR, US and SG.

The Interim Financial Controller will lead a focused balance sheet clean-up, oversee day-to-day accounting and group reporting, and support the FY2025 audit while ensuring robust financial controls and timely financial insight for executive leadership.