Financial Controller

Leeds Permanent View Job Description
As Financial Controller, you will take day-to-day responsibility for the provision of financial requirements across the Service Centre, ensuring alignment with corporate finance guidelines, internal controls, statutory requirements, and relevant accounting standards.
  • Opportunity to join a market leading manufacturer
  • Broad FC position with wide ranging responsibilities

About Our Client

This role is with a well-established organisation within the industrial and manufacturing sector. The company operates as a large organisation, offering a stable and professional environment for employees to develop their careers.

Job Description

Key responsibilities

  • Oversee accurate and timely financial reporting, planning, budgeting, and forecasting
  • Drive and monitor monthly, quarterly, and annual closing processes, ensuring financial accuracy, transparency, and on-time submission
  • Partner with key stakeholders to provide financial insight, support decision making, and monitor business performance
  • Lead preparation for external audits and ensure all statutory accounts, tax returns, and regulatory submissions are completed accurately and on time.
  • Manage relationships with external specialist partners where defined, including auditors and advisors.
  • Ensure all statutory, tax, and regulatory filings are completed within required deadlines for each legal entity, addressing both local and international requirements.
  • Manage company pension schemes with external advisors, ensuring full compliance.
  • Ensure all business insurances are managed and maintained in line with group guidelines.
  • Oversee key UK contracts, including the company car leased fleet and mobile phone contract.
  • Support post-calculation and annual recalculation activities (allocations and machine hourly rates) as the basis for standard price calculations.
  • Maintain a strong customer-service focus, developing and tracking KPIs for your area of responsibility.



The Successful Applicant

You are a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with industry experience in a management level role, looking to take the next step in your finance career. You are comfortable balancing hands-on financial management with strategic input, and you can confidently influence stakeholders at all levels, both locally and internationally.

What's on Offer

Competitive salary, bonus and benefits package on offer.

Contact
Olivia Craven
Quote job ref
JN-012026-6916811
Phone number
+44 113 243 7705

Job summary

Job function
Accounting
Subsector
Financial Controller
Sector
Industrial / Manufacturing
Location
Leeds
Contract type
Permanent
Consultant name
Olivia Craven
Consultant phone
+44 113 243 7705
Job reference
JN-012026-6916811