Financial Controller in City of London

Robert Half are partnering with a rapidly growing SaaS provider delivering procurement, compliance, and supplier management solutions to large corporate clients. Following a period of significant international growth, the business is investing heavily in strengthening its finance capability and is now seeking a Financial Controller to play a critical role in shaping a scalable, best-in-class finance function. This is a high-impact, process-improvement led role, ideal for a technically strong finance professional who enjoys improving systems, implementing controls, and building efficient processes in a fast-paced scale-up environment.

About the Position

Reporting to the Finance Director, you will play a central role in improving and strengthening financial operations as the company continues to scale globally. Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading the monthly group consolidation process across a growing international structure, ensuring accurate reporting in line with UK GAAP / FRS 101.
• Improving and evolving the month-end close process, identifying opportunities for automation, efficiency, and stronger financial controls.
• Reviewing and strengthening financial controls and documentation, ensuring appropriate governance as the business scales.
• Ensuring accurate revenue recognition processes, including deferrals, accruals, and reconciliations across both SaaS subscription and transaction-based revenue streams.
• Supporting the development of management reporting and departmental insights, ensuring consistency between budget, forecasts, and actuals.
• Leading improvements across AP and AR processes, ensuring effective controls, timely invoicing and collections, and accurate posting of transactions.
• Reviewing complex or evolving commercial arrangements such as invoice factoring, rebates, early payment discounts, and sales commission structures, ensuring appropriate accounting treatment.
• Designing and implementing new processes for areas such as sales commission reporting and performance tracking.
• Working closely with internal teams to review new commercial contracts and business initiatives, ensuring appropriate accounting and financial treatment.
• Overseeing the preparation of group and local entity statutory accounts and audits, ensuring timely completion and evaluating external providers where necessary.
• Ensuring compliance with global reporting, audit, and tax requirements across a growing international entity structure.
• Supporting the development of cash flow forecasting, including weekly and 13-week cash forecasts.
• Partnering with the Data team to improve financial data visualisation, reporting dashboards, and KPI tracking.
• Identifying further opportunities to automate reporting and streamline finance processes as the business continues to scale.

What We’re Looking For

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA).
• 5+ years’ post-qualification experience, with proven experience in a Financial Controller or senior finance role.
• Experience operating within a high-growth, international business, ideally within SaaS, FinTech, or technology environments.
• Demonstrable experience improving finance processes, implementing controls, and driving operational improvements.
• Strong experience across financial reporting, audit, tax compliance, and management accounting.
• Comfortable reviewing and accounting for complex commercial arrangements and evolving business models.
• Proactive, solutions-focused mindset with the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced scale-up environment.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to partner with both finance and non-finance stakeholders.

Here’s What’s Waiting for You

• Hybrid working - 3 days per week in the Central London office.
• A high-growth FinTech / SaaS environment with a global customer base and international operations.
• The opportunity to lead meaningful finance transformation and process improvement initiatives.
• Direct exposure to senior leadership and strategic decision-making.
• The chance to build scalable processes and controls that will support the company’s next phase of growth.
• A collaborative, ambitious culture where initiative, innovation, and ownership are genuinely encouraged.
• Clear opportunities for career progression within a scaling international organisation.

Why This Role Could Be Your Next Move

This is a unique opportunity to join a rapidly scaling technology business at a pivotal stage of its growth journey. You will play a central role in strengthening the finance function, improving financial processes, and building the controls and infrastructure needed to support international scale. From reviewing complex commercial arrangements to optimising month-end processes and driving automation, your work will have a direct impact on how the business operates and grows. If you’re a technically strong, improvement-focused finance professional who enjoys solving problems, building structure, and leading change in a scale-up environment, this role offers a fantastic platform to make a meaningful impact.