Job Title
Finance Manager / Financial Controller
Role Purpose
To oversee and deliver management reporting, audit readiness, and tax filings across a group of
companies, ensuring robust financial controls, audit-quality documentation, and timely regulatory
compliance.
The role is hands-on and requires strong technical accounting capability combined with practical
experience in group structures, management accounting and audit.
Key Responsibilities
- Management Reporting
- Prepare and review monthly and quarterly management accounts for:
- Parent company
- Subsidiaries (limited and PLC companies)
- Multiple various cos (quarterly)
- Perform variance analysis, trend analysis, and provide management commentary
- Ensure consistency of reporting across entities to their respective directors / senior
management.
- Group Accounting & Controls
- Review and structure cost allocations and recharge mechanisms
- Oversee intercompany and reconciliations
- Ensure accuracy and completeness of daily management accounts prepared by internal
teams
- Statutory Accounts & Tax Compliance
- Prepare statutory accounts for active limited companies
- Manage corporation tax computations and filings
- Perform year-end closing in Sage
- Liaise with external accountants and auditors
- Audit Preparation & Management
- Prepare and maintain monthly audit folders
- Compile annual audit preparation files with full supporting schedules
- Manage audit queries, providing clear, well-supported responses
- Review draft financial statements and coordinate year-end adjustments
- Technical Accounting & Risk
- Prepare contingent liability assessments and workings
- Review and maintain legal agreements (vendor, debt, equity) for audit and accounting
impact
- Stakeholder & Team Interaction
- Act as primary finance contact for auditors, tax advisors, and senior management
- Work closely with project teams to ensure accurate cost capture and reporting
- Review work produced by internal finance teams and provide technical guidance
Essential
Required Experience
- 37years progressive experience in finance and accounting roles
- Prior experience as a Finance Manager / Management Accountant
- Proven track record preparing:
- Management accounts (monthly & quarterly)
- Statutory accounts for UK limited companies
- Audit-ready working papers
- Strong experience managing external audits
- Hands-on experience with Sage (year-end close, journals, reporting)
- Experience working within group company structures with intercompany transactions
- Exposure to project-based accounting and cost allocation
- Prior involvement in parentsubsidiary or holding company environments
- Experience supporting multiple audits simultaneously
Required Technical Knowledge
- UK statutory accounting and Companies Act requirements
- Corporation Tax principles and filing processes
- Management accounting, variance analysis, and cost structuring
- Audit standards and audit support documentation
- Contingent liabilities and provisions
- Intercompany accounting and recharges
- Legal agreement review from an accounting perspective (debt, equity, vendor contracts)
Systems & Tools
- Sage Accounting (essential)
- Advanced Excel (pivot tables, lookups, reconciliations, schedules)
- Document management for audit trails (One drive / G drive)
Qualifications
- ACA / CIMA qualified (or equivalent) essential
- Big 4 or mid-tier audit background advantageous but not mandatory
Key Competencies
- High attention to detail and strong documentation discipline
- Ability to work under tight reporting deadlines
- Confident communicator with auditors and senior stakeholders
- Strong ownership mindset and accountability
- Ability to structure complex financial data into audit-ready outputs
Reporting Line
- Reports to: Group Financial Controller
- Manages: Internal finance team, back office team and external auditors
