Financial Controller

Job available in these locations: Home-based - Flexible, United Kingdom; Flexible - CQC Office-based, United Kingdom.

Grade A - £55,172-£68,348 (National) or £61,028-£74,204 (London - for London office-based or home-based workers within the boundary of the M25). There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £600 per annum for those working from home.

Contracted Hours: Full-time 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Home or office-based, flexible location. Also, Hybrid working (working 2 days a week from home). CQC’s offices are in London, Newcastle, Leeds, Nottingham and Bristol.

Closing date: Wednesday 28 January 2026 at 11.59pm

Make a difference. Every role at CQC contributes to our mission. If you’re looking for a new role in Finance that gives a true sense of meaning and purpose, then you’ve found it! As a Financial Controller, you’ll play a key role in ensuring strong financial governance and supporting CQC to deliver safe, effective care for people across England.

Picture this: Picture working at the centre of CQC’s financial decision-making, where your expertise supports transparency, trust and good stewardship of public money, while leading a skilled team through important delivery milestones.

The role: You’ll play an important part in delivering our mission. In this role, you’ll:

• Strengthen financial control: Maintain and improve financial processes, systems and policies to ensure compliance with standards, audits and public finance rules.
• Lead financial accounting services: Oversee core accounting functions such as statutory reporting, treasury activity, income forecasting and balance sheet management.
• Support people and performance: Lead and develop a high-performing finance team, setting clear goals, supporting learning, and ensuring delivery against agreed plans.

Show us: We’ll be looking for specific skills, knowledge and experience in your application:

• Professional accounting expertise: Experience working as a qualified accountant, with responsibility for statutory accounts and financial control in a complex organisation.
• Leading finance operations: Experience managing end-to-end financial accounting activities, using finance systems to deliver accurate reporting and meet deadlines.
• Working with others: Experience working with senior leaders, auditors or external partners to explain financial information and agree actions or improvements.

Apply today to join a workplace where your impact is felt every day.

Compliance: To progress your application, you’ll need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. Without valid right to work, you won’t be eligible for the role. We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role. Some roles may also be subject to a satisfactory DBS check.

Next steps: If you apply, you’ll need to create a profile and complete an online application form. Your application will be completely anonymous. We contact every applicant to let them know the outcome of their application, so you will hear from us whether or not you are shortlisted.

The Benefits: We offer a wide range of benefits, including:

• Annual leave starting at 27 days per year, rising to 32.5 days with service, plus bank holidays (usually 8 days per year).
• Training and development opportunities.
• Wellbeing initiatives, such as gym discounts and meditation.
• NHS pension scheme, with around 14% employer contribution.
• Discount schemes (including eligibility for a Blue Light card, at a cost of £4.99 and valid for 2 years), reward vouchers, car leasing and more!

Please see our benefits page for the full list.

Equity for all: We know job descriptions can feel intimidating. Research shows they can cause some people to doubt whether they’re a good fit. This happens more often to people from underrepresented groups (e.g. ethnic minority backgrounds). If this role interests you, we encourage you to apply. Your unique perspective, skills, and experience could be exactly what we need.

We want every candidate to feel supported and able to do their best. If you need adjustments to our process, we’ll work with you to remove any barriers. Visit our accessibility page for more on this.

We promote a workplace where fairness, respect and inclusion are a priority. Diverse teams make our work better, help us deliver our mission and make our culture stronger.

We welcome applications from everyone, and colleagues can find support and community among our many employee networks. This includes people of any age, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, ethnicity, and disability.

Values and vision: Excellence – being a high-performing organisation. Caring – treating everyone with dignity and respect. Integrity – doing the right thing. Teamwork – learning from each other to be the best we can.

We are a disability confident employer and a carer confident employer.

A Note on AI: AI tools can be great for research and refining ideas, but we want to learn about you. If you use AI or Chatbots to help you with your application, keep these points in mind: AI can support research, structuring and refining your writing, but your application must reflect your real skills and experience. Spell-checking and condensing word counts are great ways to use AI effectively. Do not copy and paste AI generated answers. These will not help you stand out; remember, we want to hear about your skills and experience. Providing false and insincere examples goes against our core values of honesty and integrity and may lead to your application being withdrawn or termination of your employment.