Financial Controller

Overview

In this role you will lead the financial control environment for a division, ensuring accurate reporting and robust governance. You will partner with finance, commercial, and build teams to deliver timely financial information and insightful analysis for decision-making. You’ll own month-end/close processes, balance sheet integrity, and tax compliance while driving process improvements. This is a hands-on, commercially minded position that shapes financial controls and supports growth in a fast-paced, project-driven environment.

Pay / Benefits

• 25 days annual leave (plus service-based increase to 33)
• Private Medical Insurance
• online discount platform
• Berkeley Foundation volunteer day
• Private pension plan
• Group life assurance

Responsibilities

• Lead month-end and year-end close with accurate, well-supported reporting
• Maintain robust financial controls through policies, reconciliations, and governance
• Own data integrity across financial systems and source data
• Ensure project assumptions, revenues, margins, provisions, and cash flows are reflected in reporting
• Review balance sheet, P&L, cash flow and working capital with challenged support schedules
• Assess accounting judgments, provisions, accruals, revenue and margin recognition per Group policies
• Monitor build programme movements and their impact on revenue, profit, cash flow and plan delivery
• Identify and manage financial control and compliance risks with clear actions and owners
• Oversee finance-system controls, master data, data cleansing and issue resolution
• Coordinate internal, external and Group audit activities to deadlines
• Support VAT, CIS, SDLT and other tax compliance requirements
• Contribute to anti-money laundering controls within the sales process
• Build trusted relationships across Finance, Commercial, Sales, Technical and Build teams
• Translate complex financial matters into practical advice for business planning and board reporting
• Lead improvements to processes, controls, reporting standards and systems
• Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching and technical support to Finance team
• Strengthen capability and accountability across the finance function

Key requirements

• ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent qualification
• strong experience in financial control and reporting or commercially focused finance
• robust technical understanding of management and statutory reporting, forecasting and audit
• experience in a complex, commercially driven organisation
• ability to own financial data, reporting processes, reconciliations and controls
• experience presenting performance, risks and recommendations to senior/non-financial stakeholders
• able to challenge constructively and influence decisions
• high attention to detail with strong organizational skills
• proactive, improvement-focused approach with practical issue resolution
• ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• experience in development, construction, housebuilding or project-based environment (valued)
• experience with VAT, CIS, SDLT or related tax compliance (advantageous)

• strong communication
• relationship-building across cross-functional teams
• proactive and constructive challenger
• management reporting
• statutory reporting
• forecasting

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