Group Financial Controller
Posted on 13 February 2026
700
Interim
Birmingham,
Private Equity
31059
Opportunity description
Job Title:
Group Financial Controller
Group Financial Controller
Contract Type: Interim
Location: Birmingham (hybrid - 3 days a week)
Day Rate: £700-£800pd (IR35 TBC)
Reporting To: Chief Financial Officer
Start Date: ASAP
A PE-backed mid-market Professional Services businesses (£60m) are seeking an experienced Group Financial Controller to play a key leadership role within Group Finance. This position will be instrumental in developing a unified, high-performing finance function capable of supporting a strategy centred on organic growth and acquisitions.
Reporting to the CFO, the role will lead the integration of three separate finance teams into a single Group Finance function, ensuring robust systems, processes, and governance are in place to support scalable growth, improve efficiency, and deliver high-quality financial insight to stakeholders.
You will play a central role in strengthening reporting, controls, and finance capability, while embedding a culture of continuous improvement across the function.
Key Responsibilities
To Be Suitable
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced finance leader to shape and develop a Group Finance function while supporting long-term growth and value creation.
Due to the high volume of applications, we may not be able to provide individual feedback to all unsuccessful candidates.
Contract Type: Interim
Location: Birmingham (hybrid - 3 days a week)
Day Rate: £700-£800pd (IR35 TBC)
Reporting To: Chief Financial Officer
Start Date: ASAP
A PE-backed mid-market Professional Services businesses (£60m) are seeking an experienced Group Financial Controller to play a key leadership role within Group Finance. This position will be instrumental in developing a unified, high-performing finance function capable of supporting a strategy centred on organic growth and acquisitions.
Reporting to the CFO, the role will lead the integration of three separate finance teams into a single Group Finance function, ensuring robust systems, processes, and governance are in place to support scalable growth, improve efficiency, and deliver high-quality financial insight to stakeholders.
You will play a central role in strengthening reporting, controls, and finance capability, while embedding a culture of continuous improvement across the function.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and deliver the strategy for the ongoing development of the Finance function, adopting best practice processes and technology.
- Lead the integration of finance teams into a single Group function, driving efficiencies and consistent service delivery.
- Establish a centralised transactional processing model, ensuring compliant and efficient operations.
- Develop robust management reporting to support internal stakeholders, investors, and lenders.
- Own planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes, strengthening business partnering and performance insight.
- Oversee cash management, finance systems, and end-to-end processes, ensuring strong governance and controls.
- Lead, develop, and motivate the Finance team, embedding a high-performance and continuous improvement culture (team of 11 with 6 direct reports)
To Be Suitable
- Proven experience leading a Finance function through growth, change, or transformation.
- Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to motivate teams through change.
- Experience of systems implementation and finance transformation initiatives.
- Commercially minded with a pragmatic, hands-on approach when required.
- Strong analytical capability and ability to translate data into actionable insight.
- Collaborative leadership style with strong stakeholder management skills.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced finance leader to shape and develop a Group Finance function while supporting long-term growth and value creation.
Due to the high volume of applications, we may not be able to provide individual feedback to all unsuccessful candidates.
