Group Financial Controller

High-Growth Consumer Business | Build the Finance Function | International Expansion

London | Hybrid Working

£110,000 to £130,000 + Significant Bonus + Equity

Some Financial Controller roles are about inheriting a well-established finance function. This one is about building one.

You would be joining a seriously exciting, highly profitable international consumer business that has already grown beyond £100m of revenue and has ambitious plans to significantly increase in size over the next 18-24 months.

The business is growing quickly across new markets, manufacturing, logistics and international operations. The opportunity now is to build the finance infrastructure capable of keeping pace with that growth.

Reporting directly into senior finance leadership, you will have genuine ownership over what the future finance function looks like. Bringing activity in-house, building the team, strengthening controls, improving reporting, implementing new systems and creating a scalable finance operation will all form part of the role.

We are ideally looking for someone from a D2C, FMCG or Retail business, importantly within a scale-up or high-growth environment.

Just as important is someone who has built a finance function before. Someone who understands the difference between inheriting good processes and actually creating them, and who gets excited about building a team around them to support continued growth.

The Role:

• Own Group financial control, reporting, consolidation and month-end across a growing international business
• Help build the finance function, bringing key activities in-house and creating the right structure to support continued growth
• Build, lead and develop the finance team as the business continues to scale
• Take ownership of statutory reporting, year-end, audit, governance and financial controls
• Manage reporting and accounting requirements across multiple international entities, including the UK and US
• Oversee VAT, sales tax and wider compliance requirements alongside external advisors
• Improve the quality, accuracy and speed of financial reporting and management information
• Support international expansion, new entities and the development of the wider Group structure
• Play a key role in implementing a new ERP and improving the wider finance systems environment
• Drive automation, AI and process improvement to reduce manual activity and create a scalable finance function
• Help prepare the business for future investment, transactions and due diligence
• Partner closely with senior leadership, providing financial insight and supporting wider commercial and strategic decisions

The Candidate:

• Qualified ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent with strong Group Financial Controller / senior finance experience
• Ideally experienced within D2C, FMCG or Retail, particularly within a scale-up or high-growth environment
• Proven experience building or significantly developing a finance function, rather than simply inheriting an established one
• Experience bringing finance activities in-house and deciding what should sit internally versus with external providers
• Excited by the opportunity to build, hire and develop a finance team as the company grows
• Strong Group consolidation and multi-entity reporting experience, ideally with UK and US exposure
• Comfortable building controls, processes and reporting in an environment that is still evolving
• Commercial, pragmatic and confident working closely with senior leadership
• Naturally improvement focused and excited by systems, automation and using technology to make finance better
• Comfortable operating at pace where not everything has already been figured out

Salary & Benefits:

Significant performance-related bonus

Pension

Potential equity opportunity

The opportunity here is genuinely exciting.

The business has already achieved serious scale, profitability and international growth. Finance now needs to catch up.

A rare Group Financial Controller opportunity to build the function, build the team and help create the financial infrastructure behind the next stage of a hugely ambitious growth story.