Group Financial Controller

Group Financial Controller

Location: London (Hybrid)
Contract: Permanent

About the Role

We’re looking for a Group Financial Controller to join our Group Finance team hybrid in London. In this pivotal role, you’ll safeguard the integrity of our financial reporting and control environment, taking ownership of the Group close and consolidation process and ensuring compliance with IFRS and our internal accounting policies.

You’ll lead the Group consolidation, manage our relationship with the external auditors, strengthen our control framework and provide technical accounting leadership across the business. As a key deputy to the Head of Reporting & Consolidation, you’ll work closely with regional finance teams and senior management, and you’ll have real visibility and influence across the Group.

What You’ll Be Doing

Group Consolidation & Financial Reporting

• Leading the monthly, quarterly and annual Group consolidation process

• Ensuring consolidated financial statements are accurate and delivered on time

• Reviewing consolidation adjustments, elimination entries and foreign exchange impacts

• Overseeing Group balance sheet, cash flow and equity reporting

• Ensuring the information submitted by regional finance teams is consistent and accurate

External Audit Management

• Acting as the primary contact for our external auditors

• Managing audit planning, timelines, deliverables and stakeholder engagement

• Coordinating audit requests across Group and regional finance teams

• Resolving accounting and reporting issues that arise during the audit

• Driving the efficient completion of interim and year-end audits

Financial Control & Governance

• Maintaining a robust Group financial control framework

• Reviewing and challenging key balance sheet reconciliations and accounting estimates

• Ensuring compliance with corporate accounting policies and reporting standards

• Identifying and implementing control improvements and process efficiencies

Technical Accounting

• Providing technical accounting guidance on complex transactions and business initiatives

• Reviewing and approving technical accounting papers and treatments

• Supporting acquisitions, restructuring activities and financing transactions

• Overseeing the implementation of new accounting standards and regulatory requirements

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Building strong relationships with regional finance teams and senior management

• Supporting the development of finance team capabilities and succession planning

• Deputising for the Head of Reporting & Consolidation

About You

Essential

• ACA, ACCA or equivalent professional qualification

• Significant experience in Group Reporting, Consolidation or Financial Control roles.

• Strong IFRS knowledge

• Experience leading Group consolidations in a multinational environment

• Experience managing external audits and statutory reporting processes

• Excellent analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills

• Able to work hybrid into London and travel to Luton and additional offices for meetings and training as required

• Experience with consolidation and reporting systems (e.g. DEPM, Workday) desirable

• Strong understanding of cash flow reporting, balance sheet management and working capital drivers.

About Us

Vertage is the global brand uniting the former Impellam Group and HeadFirst Group, bringing together a portfolio of specialist talent and workforce solutions companies.

At Vertage, you help reshape the way work gets done. You combine specialised expertise with the power of AI, helping people and organisations move faster, think bigger, and stay ahead in the age of intelligence.

Sound like you? Apply today to join Vertage.