Group Financial Controller

The Group Financial Controller is responsible for leading the Group’s day-to-day financial operations, implementing and maintaining high quality and efficient financial accounting, compliance, and reporting processes and controls. 

The role oversees business risk ensuring a sound internal control environment exists and there is effective compliance to all statutory obligations.  

The role leads our internal and external historical reporting activities, delivering timely, reliable and insightful performance data. It also controls the Group’s treasury operations. 

The role interfaces with the FP&A function within Corporate Finance and Development to help deliver forward looking budgets, forecasts and business plans. 

Your focus and responsibilities will be: 

Overview: 

• Delivers the agreed financial operations objectives (goals) for each financial year. Works autonomously under the strategic direction and oversight of the CCFO. 

• Apply good commercial acumen to the role, proactively manage the P&L and be able to effectively deputise for the CCFO when required. 

• Instlls a ‘service orientated’ ethos of finance within the business - nurtures financial know-how, cadence and lifts interest in finance across the wider business leadership, supporting decision making. 

• Develops and maintains a motivated, highly capable and effective financial operations team,  

• Manages and improves the Group’s financial systems and processes and adherence to financial policies and procedures. 

• Defines and oversees the operation of a robust, efficient system of internal controls, checks and balances to ensure completeness and accuracy, reliable revenue recognition and the protection of the Group’s assets. 

• Provides insightful, reliable and timely historical financial performance reporting. 

• Interfaces closely with the FP&A function within Corporate Finance and Development to support the delivery of high quality forward-looking budgets, forecasts and projections.  

• Ensures full compliance in all jurisdictions with respect to financial reporting and taxation requirements. 

• Oversees optimal intra-group trading and funding, complying with intercompany agreements and transfer pricing legislation. 

Transactional: 

• Leads all aspects of the Group’s financial accounting activities in accordance with the Group’s policies: 

• Maintaining accurate and complete books of accounts for all Group entities and structuring to enable optimal performance reporting; 

• Managing revenue recognition, capital expenditure and fixed asset accounting; 

• Controlling intercompany transactions; and 

• Defining and managing standard, efficient and timely month-end and year-end processes. 

Group Reporting: 

• Ensures adherence to all financial reporting deadlines across the Group as well as consolidating group results, including accounting for JV’s and Investments.  

• Reviews month-to-date and year-to-date results versus plan and prior year in readiness for performance reporting and analysis. 

• Oversees reconciliations between local and Group accounting/reporting requirements. 

• Manages the groups statutory reporting requirements and audit procedures as well as conducting intercompany audit and compliance procedures.   

Group Taxation: 

• Manages the Group’s tax compliance in conjunction with external advisers. 

• Oversees claims for tax rebates and reliefs. 

• Works with external advisers to optimise the group’s tax position through the adoption of compliant and innovative arrangements.  

Group Treasury: 

• Executes the Group’s treasury policy adhering to agreed controls and strategies, ensuring the robust, secure and optimal custodianship of Group funds. 

• Plans for and executes effective and optimal foreign exchange management. 

• Manages the Group’s banking relationships, systems and accounts. 

Other: 

• Reviews and approves proposals and sales/purchasing contracts as part of standard approval processes. 

• Implements and oversees the efficient management of Group working capital (accounts receivable, accounts payable and inventories). 

• Provides support to outsourced providers to ensure consistency and continuous improvement of financial reporting systems and processes.   

• Supports other financial and business related matters as the need arises from time to time. 

Requirements

To be successful in this role you should have a combination of the below knowledge, skills, and experience: 

• Positive ‘can-do’ attitude at all times - an ambassador for the Company, its values, culture and goals. 

• Capable of inputting and communicating clearly and confidently and meaningfully at all leadership levels. 

• Willing to present data-driven recommendations. An enthusiasm to participate in collective problem solving. 

• Delivery focused ethos – able to autonomously meet agreed deadlines and targets through the rigorous and consistent application of the above skillsets. 

• Able to proactively and independently plan the activities of the finance function to meet the needs of the business. 

• Capable of training, developing, and motivating the finance team in the skills, behaviours and values required to thrive in our culture and deliver best-in-class performance. 

• Experienced in leading global teams. 

• Advocate of a streamlined systems and automation-led approach to all aspects of financial operations and financial control. 

• Significant experience as a Group Financial Controller or similar role for a international group, ideally within an industrial context.  

• Strong working knowledge of IFRS and long term complex engineering contract accounting and revenue recognition. 

• Professionally qualified accountant with a superb technical knowledge – ACA, ACCA, or CIMA preferred. Minimum of 8 years PQE. 

• Deep understanding of core financial metrics and KPIs. 

• Excellent understanding of ERP/MRP systems ideally with experience in their implementation/configuration. 

We give you 

• The opportunity to continue to develop both personally and professionally, in our rapidly growing company. 

• A brilliant company culture that encourages initiative, collaboration, and positivity at work. 

• Great office environment in our London HQ, close to the London Bridge stations, Waterloo, and Blackfriars. 

• Hybrid working – with the flexibility to work from home for up to 3 days a week. 

Benefits

• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Private Healthcare (family cover available for all colleagues)
• Health Cash Plan
• Income Protection and Critical Illness Cover
• Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programme
• Generous pension contribution – minimum of 5% contributed by the company
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Employee Perks scheme
• Support towards professional qualification and memberships

Everyone belongs at Carbon Clean

We are passionate and committed to our people. Our aim is to build a diverse and inclusive movement: teams of forward-thinking people, with unique talents, skills, passions, and experiences. It’s talent that matters to us and we encourage everyone to join us, whatever your gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, life experience, or background. So please come as you are – we can’t wait to meet you.

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!