Interim Senior Business Controller for Facilities Management in England

Role Overview

Responsible for delivering efficient and effective strategic and operational financial leadership to support the overall strategy and performance objectives of the Facilities Management business unit.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a key member of the management team and wider finance leadership group.
• Provide high‑quality analysis to aid and support business decision‑making, focusing on the use of data rather than its preparation.
• Ensure compliance with group and segment‑specific business, financial and commercial procedures and policies.
• Manage one or more significant or complex business areas.
• Contribute to the group vision and translate it into a finance vision and plan.
• Align key stakeholders around the finance strategy, communicating it internally and externally.
• Aggregate portfolio data, transform information into optimisation ideas, and drive fact‑based decision making in policy setting.
• Support M&A and divestment decisions in pre‑deal and post‑deal phases, providing funding considerations on debt and equity.
• Develop capabilities, tools, techniques and models to enhance finance’s influence on better decision making.
• Rationalise and improve management reporting and analysis across processes, commercial policy, people and technology.
• Support CAPEX investments: analyse, justify and post‑investment analyse business cases, drawing lessons for future budgeting.
• Determine critical success factors, opportunities, risks and performance indicators linked with project lifecycle stages, providing guidance and challenge in reviews.
• Develop a standard reporting suite of project financial information for use across the sector.
• Assess strategic goals regarding business development, pipeline quality and risk‑return of tenders in the Tender Stage Gate Procedure, advising on tender strategy, risks and margins, and monitoring sign‑off procedures.
• Share position papers with auditors, ensuring alignment with accounting standards such as IFRS15.
• Lead a team of 9 in the specified location.

Benefits

• Challenging and continuously changing environment within a forward‑thinking organisation.
• Attractive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunities for personal growth and development within a global and diverse company.

Qualifications & Experience

• Construction / FM experience is essential.
• Senior finance professional with significant experience of finance roles in large complex organisations.
• Significant experience of working directly alongside leadership teams and delivering to strategy & business plans.
• Deep knowledge of sector‑related markets, regulatory environment and commercial business processes.
• Experience of developing strong internal and external relationships to drive performance.
• Leadership experience of functional roles within large complex organisations, projects and programmes.
• Consultancy skills to senior stakeholders on political, business and economic issues.
• Customer‑focused business development, with a network of commercial knowledge.
• Expertise in portfolio & performance analysis, CAPEX and business case analysis, and M&A experience.
• Knowledge of statutory accountability, investment and accounting principles, IFRS and external reporting.
• Experience in project budgeting, forecasting, reporting, risk and opportunity management, cash forecasting, and large complex project finance.
• Strong understanding of risk, opportunity, and specialised finance concepts such as corporate finance, bonds, guarantees, investment tenders, treasury and structured finance.
• Experience in enterprise risk management, BRF and controls.
• Knowledge of tax strategy, transfer pricing, indirect and payroll taxes, and supply chain tax liabilities.
• Proficiency in critical finance transactional operations and control points across P2P, R2R, O2C, and master data.
• Interest in driving digital literacy and data strategy, including analytics and visualisation.
• Capacity to develop data‑driven decisions, metrics, and dashboards for specific business techniques.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We strive to create an environment where everybody feels welcome and valued. We’re on an exciting journey to employ the best talent regardless of social background, race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or other characteristics.