Strategic Interim Financial Controller for Growth

Marks Sattin; Chester; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Outside IR35 contract

£500/day rate

1–2 days onsite

Job summary

Marks Sattin in the United Kingdom is partnered with a growing South Manchester SME to appoint a hands-on Financial Controller. The role focuses on improving monthly management accounts, enhancing reporting accuracy and driving finance transformation to support scalable growth.

This is a high-visibility position requiring a fully qualified accountant who can lead, influence senior stakeholders and implement change quickly while delivering robust financial information.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Experience as Financial Controller or Senior Finance Leader within a growing SME.

Responsibilities

• Lead the production, review and enhancement of monthly management accounts, ensuring accuracy, robustness and meaningful commercial insight.
• Assess and improve existing month-end processes, reducing reporting timelines and increasing efficiency.
• Review current finance procedures and implement best-practice controls, processes and governance.
• Drive improvements across management reporting, KPIs and business performance reporting.
• Support the clean-up and resolution of historical accounting issues, balance sheet reconciliations and process gaps where required.
• Prepare monthly group consolidations and board-level financial reports.
• Lead audit preparation activities and improve processes to achieve faster and more efficient year-end audit sign-off.
• Oversee treasury management, including ownership of short and medium-term cashflow forecasting.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to provide financial analysis and decision-support.
• Identify and deliver finance transformation initiatives that improve scalability and support continued business growth.
• Mentor and support the wider finance team, establishing stronger reporting disciplines and accountability.

Job description

Marks Sattin in the United Kingdom is partnered with a growing South Manchester SME to appoint a hands-on Financial Controller. The role focuses on improving monthly management accounts, enhancing reporting accuracy and driving finance transformation to support scalable growth.

This is a high-visibility position requiring a fully qualified accountant who can lead, influence senior stakeholders and implement change quickly while delivering robust financial information.