Interim Group Financial Controller
Posted 1 day ago by STOIX | B Corp™
£130,000 Per year
Outside
Hybrid
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Interim Group Financial Controller will lead group financial reporting, controls, and governance for a private equity-backed services group in Leeds. This hands-on role requires expertise in managing complex financial structures and supporting the CFO during a critical operational phase. The position is suited for a candidate with a strong background in mid-market PE environments and a proactive approach to financial leadership.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ownership of group financial reporting, including month-end, consolidation, and management reporting
- Ensuring robust financial controls, processes, and balance sheet discipline across the group
- Oversight and review of statutory accounts and audit processes
- Acting as a central point of coordination across operating entities, ensuring consistency and quality of financial information
- Supporting the CFO with insight, challenge, and delivery across core finance activities
- Helping to embed best-practice reporting and governance standards within a fast-moving, mid-market PE environment
Key Skills:
- Proven Group Financial Controller or senior FC experience within mid-market, PE-backed businesses
- Big 4 trained preferred, with strong technical grounding
- ACA qualified (or equivalent) strongly preferred
- Comfortable operating in businesses with complexity, pace, and multiple stakeholders
- Practical, delivery-focused, and confident setting standards rather than just maintaining them
- Able to balance strategic oversight with hands-on execution
Salary (Rate): £130,000.00/year
City: Leeds
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Finance
Interim Group Financial Controller (6m) PE-backed Services Buy-and-Build Leeds (hybrid, 3 days) Circa £800/day (Outside) We are supporting a mid-market, private equity-backed services group operating across technical and specialist services in the UK. The business is well-established, acquisitive, and operating at meaningful scale, with a complex multi-entity structure. The requirement is for an Interim Group Financial Controller to provide hands-on leadership across group reporting, controls, and financial governance, acting as a key right-hand to the CFO during a period of ongoing operational and commercial focus. This is a broad, sleeves-rolled-up role suited to someone who is comfortable operating in a PE environment and “knows what good looks like” at group level.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ownership of group financial reporting, including month-end, consolidation, and management reporting
- Ensuring robust financial controls, processes, and balance sheet discipline across the group
- Oversight and review of statutory accounts and audit processes
- Acting as a central point of coordination across operating entities, ensuring consistency and quality of financial information
- Supporting the CFO with insight, challenge, and delivery across core finance activities
- Helping to embed best-practice reporting and governance standards within a fast-moving, mid-market PE environment
Candidate Profile Proven Group Financial Controller or senior FC experience within mid-market, PE-backed businesses Big 4 trained preferred, with strong technical grounding ACA qualified (or equivalent) strongly preferred Comfortable operating in businesses with complexity, pace, and multiple stakeholders Practical, delivery-focused, and confident setting standards rather than just maintaining them Able to balance strategic oversight with hands-on execution