Financial Controller in Sheffield

We’re looking for a Financial Controller to lead the Group’s finance, payroll, and transaction processing functions. Managing a team, you’ll take ownership of preparing Group consolidated management accounts while ensuring strong financial governance, accurate reporting, and effective controls across the business.

Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, you’ll play a key role in driving continuous improvement across the Group finance function, enhancing processes, strengthening insight, and supporting sound financial decision-making. This is a senior, hands-on role offering the opportunity to influence how finance supports the wider organisation.

Summary of role and responsibilities

• Oversee the monthly financial close process, ensuring accurate consolidated balance sheets and management accounts.
• Manage group cashflow, ensuring efficient cash management through optimisation of cash collections and improved management and visibility of accounts payable.
• Be responsible for balance sheet integrity, ensuring robust reconciliation and balance sheet review processes are adhered to.
• Support M&A integration processes, managing the consolidation and acquisition accounting is accurately reflected in the group management accounts.
• Implement and monitor robust financial controls and procedures for business operations.
• Ensure compliance with accounting standards and regulatory requirements in all financial operations.
• Liaise with external auditors and management of the audit process.
• Support process improvement and finance transformation initiatives.
• Support budgeting forecasting and financial planning processes.
• Contribute to the achievement of corporate objectives by providing financial and accounting advice, direction and leadership to the operations teams, other finance team members and senior leadership teams.
• Manage current and future FX risk.
• Own the production of timely and accurate management accounts, at profit centre, legal entity and consolidated levels.
• Provide insightful finance advice to support strategic decision making.
• Work in collaboration with the Head of FP&A and Operational Finance to ensure complete, accurate and timely MI reporting.
• Successfully complete all identified training both in-house and external, as required.
• Assist with any other duties reasonably requested and in line with the requirements of the post.
• Have line management and functional responsibility for assigned team.

Summary of requirements

• Qualified Accountant – ACA, ACCA or CIMA.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge with excellent attention to detail.
• Proven experience in a Financial Controller or similar senior finance role, ideally within a multi-entity, multi-currency group organisation, ideally in a private-equity owned structure.
• Advanced excel and strong analytical capabilities.
• Experience with ERP Systems.
• Experience with Microsoft D365 (Desirable).
• Proven experience leading, developing and mentoring finance team members.
• Process and Systems improvement focused.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to develop strong relationships with key stakeholders.
• Confident communicator, comfortable communicating at all levels of the organisation.
• Strong written and oral communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage stakeholders at senior leadership and board level.

Values

• Will Deliver what we promise.
• Will demand the highest levels of Safety and Security.
• Will apply Technical Mastery.
• Is committed to Continual Learning.
• Will challenge the norm to make a difference through Innovation.

What you’ll love about working here

As a Great Place to Work® certified organisation with over 50 years of deep technology expertise, you’ll work alongside specialists who solve complex, real-world challenges. You’ll gain exposure to intelligent systems that power critical facilities - building skills that shape safer, smarter, and more sustainable operations.

What we can offer you

Inspire and innovate with us; Join ITI Group, a place where you can shine! Find out more about what we can offer you by visiting our careers page on the ITI Group Website.

At ITI Group our people are our best asset. We offer a variety of benefits, to attract and retain talent, which include:

• 25 days annual leave, 8 Bank Holidays, plus the ability to buy and sell up to 5 days per year.
• Flexible start and finish times, including flexi-Fridays.
• Competitive Employee Referral Award Scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Life Assurance.
• Pension.
• Payment of professional membership fees.
• Healthy Extras - Employee Assistance Programme, access to a practising GP, Confidential Advice.
• Enhanced family friendly policies.

ITI is an equal opportunities employer. For more information, please refer to our Equality of Opportunity statement on the ITI Group Careers page.

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