Interim Financial Controller: Lead Controls & Improvements

Go Fractional; St Albans; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

25 days annual leave plus bank holiday

Private Medical Insurance

Group Life Insurance

Enhanced family friendly policies

Regular social events

Job summary

Go Fractional is seeking an experienced Interim Financial Controller for a 12-month fixed-term basis in the UK. You will provide hands-on leadership across transactional finance, strengthen controls, improve debt collection, and drive practical process improvements while serving as the senior technical point of contact for accounting, reporting and audits.

You will lead a transactional finance team, optimise ledgers, and support external audits with a proactive, results-driven approach.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent qualification.
• Experience in sales ledger, credit control and purchase ledger.
• Proven debt collection improvements and aged receivables management.
• Strong month-end and balance sheet controls, and reporting support.
• Experience supporting external audits and audit queries.

Responsibilities

• Lead sales ledger and credit control, managing overdue debt and disputes.
• Oversee purchase ledger operations and supplier onboarding.
• Lead and develop the transactional finance team.
• Deliver improvements via automation and standardisation.
• Maintain ledger integrity, reconciliations and month-end activities.
• Support management reporting, year-end close and external audits.

Skills

Financial control

Debt collection

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent

Tools

NetSuite

Tipalti

Salesforce

Job description

Go Fractional is seeking an experienced Interim Financial Controller for a 12-month fixed-term basis in the UK. You will provide hands-on leadership across transactional finance, strengthen controls, improve debt collection, and drive practical process improvements while serving as the senior technical point of contact for accounting, reporting and audits.

You will lead a transactional finance team, optimise ledgers, and support external audits with a proactive, results-driven approach.