Financial Controller in London

We are looking for an exceptional financial professional who thrives in a fast-moving, high-volume e-commerce environment. This role is about ownership, control, and execution. You will take full responsibility for the integrity of financial reporting, month-end close, ERP management, treasury, and controls across the business, ensuring accurate, timely, and actionable financial information is available to the leadership team. You will work closely with the CFO and wider senior leadership to drive improvements in processes, systems, and financial performance. This is a hands-on role requiring someone who can roll up their sleeves to stabilise, transform, and continuously improve the finance function. If you enjoy building robust financial controls, managing fast close processes, and influencing commercial decisions through insightful analysis, this role will give you the opportunity to make a tangible impact on a growing international business.

Key Responsibilities

• Month-End Close and Reporting
  • Lead the consolidated month-end reporting process, delivering accurate P&L, balance sheet reconciliations, and departmental and channel spend reports.
  • Drive a fast close process, running pre- and post-mortem meetings to identify and implement improvements.
  • Produce gross margin bridges by channel and material changes.
  • Present month-end financials to the senior leadership team and maintain ownership of the actions log.
  • Manage intercompany invoicing, payments, and reconciliations.
  • Ensure quarterly covenant reporting is accurate and delivered in advance to enable proactive decisions.
• Financial Controls
  • Own financial control across internal and external reporting, ensuring accuracy, reliability, and timeliness.
  • Lead ERP bedding-in and optimisation, ensuring robust processes, workflows, and access controls.
  • Challenge inefficiencies in processes to improve speed and accuracy of financial outputs.
  • Partner with business teams, holding monthly reviews to prioritise requirements and deliver actionable insights.
  • Develop and maintain a roadmap for the finance department's focus and improvement initiatives.
  • Payroll & benefits approval and management across the group.
• Audit and Compliance
  • Take full ownership of the audit process, from planning to completion, including creation of financial statements and implementing learnings from prior audits.
  • Partner with the finance team to create development plans and strengthen capabilities.
• ERP and Systems
  • ERP (Dynamics BC) administrator and architect of financial controls, ensuring data quality and reliable reporting.
  • Own reconciliation processes across all marketplaces and sales channels, collaborating with internal and external teams to drive improvements.
• Stock, Margin, and Treasury
  • Partner with operations to monitor inventory KPIs, manage & improve landed cost and inventory valuations, and provide timely reporting to inform decisions.
  • Administer hedging strategy, working closely with the CFO to address shortfalls or surpluses.
  • Manage working capital, optimising payables and receivables, and ensuring proactive financial stewardship.
  • Cashflow reporting for the group, highlighting shortfalls or surpluses.
• Other Responsibilities
  • Manage intercompany loans, invoicing, and interest, ensuring cross compound balances, reconciling monthly.
  • Support budgeting and forecasting processes with models, data, and insights.
  • Manage departmental calendar to ensure deadlines are met consistently.
  • Team management – training, mentoring and setting and tracking objectives and goals.

Ideal Candidate

• Years' accounting experience, including a proven track record as a Financial Controller or reporting to a Finance Director/CFO.
• Experience in retail or physical goods, ideally with online marketplaces, Amazon, and international operations.
• Strong ERP experience, ideally with Dynamics BC, including process improvement and control design.
• Demonstrated ability to stabilise, transform, and optimise finance functions.
• Fast close experience (under 5 days) is highly advantageous.
• Hands-on operator with commercial acumen, strong analytical skills, and a focus on delivering results.
• Experienced partner across teams, able to influence, challenge, and support the wider business.

Who is One Retail Group?

One Retail Group is an international online retailer, brand owner, and marketplace specialist. Our story is humble, growing from a single product launched in 2013, we now own multiple brands in the home appliance, lifestyle and personal care categories. Our future is exciting as we strive to launch onto new platforms and expand our operations even further across the globe. We work at pace, we learn fast, where necessary we fail fast. This role will provide you with the chance to leave your mark and make a difference to a very exciting company. We're proud of our collaborative team and continued high standards as we work together to achieve our shared ambitious goals.