Group Financial Controller
Posted on 17 December 2025
£120,000 - £140,000
Permanent
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Private Equity
30716
Opportunity description
Job Title:
Group Financial Controller
Stanton House is working exclusively with a leading PE-backed technology services and software business to appoint a Group Financial Controller. This is a senior leadership role and an exciting opportunity to join the organisation at a pivotal stage, following recent backing from a reputable mid-market private equity fund.
As Group Financial Controller, you will work closely with a recently appointed CFO to establish and scale a finance function built for long-term success. You will play a key role in developing a best-in-class finance capability to support the group through its next phase of growth.
This is a broad, hands-on leadership position with responsibility for driving financial discipline, enhancing reporting, strengthening controls, and supporting strategic initiatives across the group. The role requires a strong people leader who can inspire, develop, and manage a high-performing finance team, while remaining actively involved in shaping processes, driving change, and embedding transformation across the business.
Key Responsibilities
As Group Financial Controller, you will work closely with a recently appointed CFO to establish and scale a finance function built for long-term success. You will play a key role in developing a best-in-class finance capability to support the group through its next phase of growth.
This is a broad, hands-on leadership position with responsibility for driving financial discipline, enhancing reporting, strengthening controls, and supporting strategic initiatives across the group. The role requires a strong people leader who can inspire, develop, and manage a high-performing finance team, while remaining actively involved in shaping processes, driving change, and embedding transformation across the business.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and own the group finance function, including managing the AP, AR and billing teams.
- Deliver high-quality, timely monthly group reporting, management accounts and board-level packs
- Own statutory reporting across the group, ensuring compliance with relevant accounting standards and tax completeness.
- Strengthen financial controls, governance and processes in line with PE best practice
- Play a leading role in finance transformation, including systems and processes
- Be a hands-on leader, working alongside the team to drive process improvements and embed change
- Act as a key finance partner to the CFO, supporting strategic initiatives, growth planning and value creation
- Lead, develop and mentor a high-performing finance team, fostering collaboration and accountability
- Support integration of acquisitions and other corporate activity as required
- Work closely with external stakeholders including auditors, advisors and investors
- Big 4 trained (ACA qualified or equivalent) with strong technical accounting foundations
- At least 8 years PQE with proven experience as a Group Financial Controller or similar within a PE-backed environment
- Background in technology, software, or services businesses preferred
- Demonstrable experience delivering finance transformation and change, including systems and process improvement
- Experience in building best in class finance teams to support growth
- Strong people leadership skills, capable of inspiring, coaching, and managing a high-performing team
- Hands-on approach with a willingness to roll up sleeves and drive change forward
- Strong understanding of PE reporting requirements, investor expectations and exit readiness
- Systems savvy, with experience improving or implementing finance systems and reporting tools, knowledge of MD Business Central is desirable
- Commercially minded, resilient and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment
