Group Financial Controller in Glasgow

The Company established in 2015, Clyde Munro is a fast‑growing, private equity‑backed dental group with patient care and experience at the top of the agenda. Benefitting from providing both NHS and private services through a wide variety of treatments, Scotland’s fastest‑growing dental group believes that dentistry should be accessible and convenient. Dental wellbeing is their key priority and they work closely with their patients to help make sure they maintain healthy teeth and gums for life through the provision of a forward‑thinking and modern approach.

The Clyde Munro network of practices supports their patients through regular dental check‑ups and hygiene visits, more complex and advanced treatments and a range of innovative cosmetic procedures. Their staff understand the importance of building relationships through the provision of excellent customer service and creating and maintaining a friendly and welcoming environment to ensure patient comfort, ease and satisfaction.

The Clyde Munro group is exceptionally passionate about their profession and the staff are trained to high levels to ensure patients consistently receive quality care, no matter which practice they choose to visit. As the group and team expands, they will continue to instil this supportive and positive ethos so that their patients, and the communities in which they operate, always receive the very best in dental care.

Clyde Munro is looking to build on the positive political position where the Scottish Government has invested significant amounts of money in NHS dentistry. Clyde Munro is deeply committed to increasing patient access to dental services through a combination of optimising the existing estate, expanding surgeries, building new surgeries and selective acquisitions.

Opportunity: This is an exciting time for Clyde Munro as it continues to grow by maximising performance from its current estate and through selective build and acquisition opportunities. The business is looking to appoint a Group Financial Controller to support the business on this journey.

The finance team plays a key role in how the business operates and therefore a deep understanding of each area of the business is required. The pace and diversity of the group throws up new and exciting challenges on a daily basis. The Group FC position represents a fantastic opportunity for a structured and progressive individual with strong technical accounting capabilities and experience in team management and leadership.

In order to be successful, the post‑holder requires a high degree of flexibility, proactivity, and a detailed focused mindset whilst always maintaining an awareness of the bigger picture. The role also offers exposure to the private equity sector and the chance to contribute to an exciting growth story.

Clyde Munro will provide a firm career platform with future opportunities for personal development and progression and will provide the successful candidate with skills and experience which will underpin their future finance career. The business is keen to build succession from within, and the successful candidate should have the potential to develop into a future senior finance leader, and a future CFO.

Job Description: The role oversees the engine room of finance and is critical for timely and accurate reporting that will underpin clear forecasting, and an understanding of performance drivers and insightful analysis. It will act as a custodian of the business ensuring strong controls and compliance.

• Lead the month‑end close process and preparation of accurate, timely monthly management accounts for the group, regions and practices, for SLT and Board reporting.
• Maintain strong financial control across the group, including balance sheet reconciliations, review processes and resolution of issues.
• Ensure the integrity of financial reporting across the main operating company, training company and PE holding structure.
• Lead statutory reporting, audit preparation and compliance with relevant accounting, tax and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee core finance operations, including purchase ledger, sales ledger, banking, reconciliations and payroll‑related finance processes.
• Support effective cash management, working capital discipline and short‑term cash visibility.
• Lead, manage and develop five direct reports, setting clear standards, deadlines and expectations.
• Build a finance team culture focused on accuracy, accountability, continuous improvement and service to the wider business.
• Work closely with the CFO, Head of FP&A and Senior Leadership Team, providing reliable financial insight, constructive challenge and decision support.
• Partner with operational and commercial teams to improve understanding of financial performance, risks and opportunities.
• Improve finance processes, systems and reporting to make them more efficient, scalable and robust.
• Champion the adoption of better tools, automation, AI and data‑led ways of working across finance and, where appropriate, the wider business.

The Candidate: The FC role requires a professionally qualified accountant who possesses excellent organisational, interpersonal, and technical skills. The role will be responsible for leading the financial control, accounting, reporting, compliance and transactional finance activities of the group.

Reporting to the CFO, the role will form part of the finance leadership team alongside the CFO and Head of FP&A. The FC will provide the financial discipline, control environment and reporting infrastructure required to support a PE‑backed, multi‑site healthcare business.

You will work closely with the Senior Leadership Team, providing clear financial information, constructive challenge and practical support to help the business make better decisions. The successful candidate will need to be forward‑looking, improvement‑oriented and willing to encourage the finance function and wider business to adopt new tools, technologies and ways of working, including the appropriate use of AI and automation.

The role will manage five direct reports and will be expected to lead, develop and improve the finance team while ensuring that the finance function delivers accurate, timely and reliable financial information.

Role requirements:

• Professionally qualified accountant: CA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent, ideally with four years’ PQE.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge, with experience of financial control, month‑end reporting, statutory accounts, audit and compliance.
• Experience leading and developing a finance team, bringing energy, clear values and the ability to inspire confidence and respect.
• Able to work closely with the CFO, Head of FP&A, SLT, investors, auditors and external advisers.
• Strong attention to detail, with the ability to deliver accurate and timely results in a fast‑paced environment.
• Results driven and respect for deadlines; remains calm when under pressure.
• Proven ability to lead teams, coordinate projects and own the solution and outcome when resolving challenges.
• Forward‑looking and improvement‑oriented, with the ability to modernise finance processes, systems, reporting and ways of working.

Preferred candidate background:

• Experience as a Financial Controller, Senior Finance Manager or similar in a PE‑backed, investor‑owned or fast‑paced growth environment. Will have had responsibility for financial reporting and transactional finance.
• Will have operated in a multi‑site business, ideally healthcare, dental, veterinary, social care, retail, leisure or another distributed operating model with a patient or customer focus.
• Experience in a business of comparable scale, ideally turnover of c.£50m–£150m.
• Evidence of having improved or modernised finance processes, systems, reporting or controls.
• Experience using, or strong curiosity about, automation, AI and data‑led tools to improve finance effectiveness.
• High EQ, adaptable style and the potential to develop into a future CFO.

Benefits: Competitive pay scale with annual allowance, Pension contributions in line with auto enrollment limits, 33 paid holidays per year including statutory.