Senior Assistant Finance: Path to Financial Controller

Headstar; England; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

30 days holiday

Enhanced parental leave

Hybrid working - 3 days per week in an

Allowed 10% bonus scheme

Job summary

Headstar is recruiting for an Assistant Financial Controller to join a £55m turnover e-commerce business. You will work directly under the current Financial Controller, with a clear, mapped-out path to take over the FC role in 2027.

You’ll oversee a transactional finance function, manage end-to-end management accounts, and gain real commercial exposure through margin analysis, forecasting, and stock costing.

Qualifications

• 2+ years post-qualified experience (ACA / ACCA / CIMA).
• Strong management accounting background with commercial exposure.
• Experience overseeing or managing a small team is a plus.
• Confidence to build relationships with commercial stakeholders.
• A genuine interest in stepping up to FC level in the future, not just holding the title.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end management accounts and month-end reporting.
• Commercial insight for stakeholders - profit and margin analysis, forecasts, budgets.
• Stock costing and forecasting.
• Oversight of the transactional finance function beneath you.
• Working directly alongside, and shadowing, the current Financial Controller.
• Building towards full ownership of the FC role ahead of retirement in 2027.

Skills

Management accounting

Commercial awareness

Team leadership

Stakeholder relationships

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA professional qualification

Job description

Headstar is recruiting for an Assistant Financial Controller to join a £55m turnover e-commerce business. You will work directly under the current Financial Controller, with a clear, mapped-out path to take over the FC role in 2027.

You’ll oversee a transactional finance function, manage end-to-end management accounts, and gain real commercial exposure through margin analysis, forecasting, and stock costing.