Group Financial Controller

Overview

In this role you will provide expert financial leadership to the CFO, oversee statutory reporting and governance, and strengthen the financial control environment. You will steer the group’s reporting calendar, tax function, and external audits, while guiding a high-performing control team. The position sits at the heart of financial stewardship in a regulated, complex organization with a focus on accuracy, governance, and continuous improvement. This is a strategic role that supports the company’s mission to deliver safe, warm, and reliable energy to customers.

Pay / Benefits

• Joint-contribution pension from 6% (12% total)
• Car allowance
• Annual bonus
• Enhanced maternity & family leave
• Life assurance
• HolidayPlus

Responsibilities

• Provide expert financial leadership and advice to the CFO, Executive Leadership Team, Board and Audit Committee on accounting, reporting, governance and financial control matters
• Lead SGN’s tax function, ensuring compliance with UK tax legislation across corporation tax, VAT, employment taxes and related statutory requirements
• Oversee the delivery of the Group’s Annual Report and Accounts, ensuring high-quality statutory and consolidated financial reporting
• Oversee financial covenant reporting, ensuring robust governance, review and approval processes before submission to lenders and key committees
• Provide leadership and direction to the Financial Reporting and Control team, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement and high performance
• Own and continuously enhance the financial control framework, maintaining strong governance, effective internal controls and balance sheet integrity
• Lead month-end, quarter-end and year-end financial close activities, ensuring accurate, timely and insightful financial information is delivered
• Manage relationships with external auditors, leading the planning, coordination and successful delivery of statutory audits

Key requirements

• Significant experience within a large, complex and regulated organisation, leading group financial control, statutory reporting and governance, ideally with Board and Audit Committee exposure
• Professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CA or equivalent) with a degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or a related discipline
• Strong technical expertise in IFRS, FRS102, statutory reporting and financial governance requirements
• Proven experience leading financial accounting, consolidation, financial control and external audit activities
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build credibility at executive level and with external advisers
• A track record of leading high-performing teams and delivering finance transformation and continuous improvement initiatives

• Stakeholder management
• Influencing skills
• Team leadership
• IFRS
• FRS102
• statutory reporting

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