Group Financial Controller

Group Financial Controller
London / Mayfair (On-site)
Full-Time
Mid-Senior Level
£90,000-£100,000

International Private Equity House, specialising in recruitment investments

• Revenues of £60m+
• 200+ staff
• Highly profitable
• 10+ international offices, and growing

Recruitment Entrepreneur is a leading investment firm in the recruitment industry, founded by James Caan CBE. Our mission is to support recruitment entrepreneurs in building successful and sustainable businesses. We provide funding, mentorship, and operational support to our portfolio companies, helping them to accelerate growth and achieve their goals.

We are currently implementing an exciting growth strategy, on track to invest and launch investment businesses in 20 countries outside the UK. This is a unique opportunity for a strong, highly motivated finance professional as part of its core team, in the role of Group Financial Controller with a key focus on financial reporting, controls and compliance.

We are looking for a high calibre qualified accountant (with a minimum 5+ years post qualification experience) with familiarity of working in a fast-paced, multi-currency environment. Prior experience in a Group Financial Controller role in an investment-related and/or recruitment-related business is preferred.

The Group Financial Controller role is one that is focused across internal performance reporting & planning, statutory reporting and treasury management, covering the UK-head office and international investments.

Your duties will include, but not limited to:

• Responsibility for all monthly financial reporting (consolidation of HQ and international subsidiaries), presenting financial results, performance against budget/KPIs and forecasts to the Board
• Design and implement a new Consolidation process across a newly formed Group, as well as putting in place and refining financial control processes and procedures across the Group to facilitate accurate and timely reporting
• Leading the cashflow forecasting process by HQ and international offices for accurate forecasting of capital deployment of committed funds across international investments
• Overseeing the day-to-day Treasury, tax requirement and finance function of the HQ team, including VAT, payroll, and overseeing inter-group transactions and transfer pricing implications
• Act as a key point of contact to external auditors with management of audit deliverables across teams
• Ensuring compliance with applicable financial reporting standards and keeping up to date with changes in statutory reporting requirements which apply to the group
• and its subsidiaries and assisting the team maintain knowledge and application of reporting frameworks as appropriate
• Lead the Group's budget process, including timetabling, co-ordination, development of budget model, consolidation of all inputs and presentation of the final budget to the Board

If you have the required skills, background and experience, please forward your CV details to Andy Bell at Hanami International abell@hanamiinternational.com