Global Lease Financial Controller

This is a two year fixed term contract. This is a rare opportunity to join Specsavers at an exciting moment in our finance transformation journey. As we continue our mission to change lives through better sight and hearing, we're building a brand-new Property Finance team that will play a critical role in managing global lease accounting across a portfolio with annual spend exceeding £100 million. If you're a qualified accountant with a passion for driving accuracy, improving processes and influencing stakeholders across an international business, this role offers the chance to make a genuine impact from day one.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of the Group's global lease accounting processes, ensuring lease data from territories around the world is translated accurately and consistently into our consolidated FRS102 reporting framework.
• Work closely with international finance teams and our external system partner to drive the delivery and optimisation of ProLease Enterprise, ensuring high-quality reporting outputs that support Group reporting and consolidation.
• Be at the centre of a significant finance transformation programme, helping to establish robust, scalable processes and controls that will shape the future of lease accounting at Specsavers.

Qualifications and Skills

• Strong technical accounting expertise with a highly analytical and commercially curious mindset.
• Proven track record of working with UK GAAP, lease accounting and financial controls.
• Experience improving complex finance processes and challenging data to ensure accuracy and integrity.
• Confident communicator who can build trusted relationships across global teams and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to navigate complexity, drive change and maintain momentum in a fast-paced environment.
• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• UK GAAP and FRS102 expertise.
• Lease accounting knowledge.
• Financial controls and compliance.
• Process improvement.
• Financial systems implementation.
• Stakeholder management, influencing and relationship building.
• Data analysis and data integrity review.
• Reporting and consolidation.
• Coaching and mentoring.
• Change management.
• Communication and presentation skills.
• Resilience and commercial awareness.
• Continuous improvement mindset.

Benefits

In return, you'll join a business that is committed to creating a place where colleagues are proud to belong and empowered to thrive. This is an opportunity to take a lead role in a newly established function, working with senior stakeholders across an international organisation while helping to define best practice in a critical area of finance. If you're resilient, ambitious and excited by the opportunity to combine technical expertise, stakeholder leadership and process transformation in a highly visible role, we'd love to hear from you.

Application

This role closes on 31st July 2026. Don't delay your application, apply now - you'll be glad you did.