Join us as a Franchise Financial Controller
* This key role will see you leading a team with responsibility for the delivery of end-to-end financial control activity
* We’ll look to you to proactively establish and maintain strong working relationships with key customers and stakeholders, and the wider Finance team
* As a key member of our team, you’ll enjoy extensive collaboration and can expect great visibility for you and your work
* We’re offering this role on a temporary basis until the end of February 2026
What you'll do
As Franchise Financial Controller, you’ll ensure the integrity of monthly, quarterly and annual financial information, including balance sheet, profit and loss account, internal and external reporting and other supporting data. You’ll be helping to shape the strategy and operating model for financial control, with the overriding objective of establishing and maintaining trust and confidence of customers and stakeholders.
Through the course of your work, you’ll:
* Consider and escalate the adequacy and effectiveness of the business’s controls
* Provide sound analytical reviews, challenges and analysis to customers
* Negotiate the delivery of day-to-day and ad hoc outputs, and deal with non-delivery issues as and when they arise
* Act as the key customer relationship manager between the business area and the wider Financial Reporting & Control teams
* Initiate continuous improvement projects to automate and streamline financial control activities
The skills you'll need
To succeed in this role, you’ll bring extensive post-qualification experience in a finance environment, preferably the financial services industry. You’ll have experience of working at a senior management level, with multiple reporting lines across a global matrix environment.
We’ll also look to you to bring:
* Experience of providing senior management with detailed financial information
* The ability to identify, build and enhance key relationships and challenge as needed
* Strong communication skills and the ability to clearly and succinctly articulate issues to senior management
* The ability to deliver high quality outputs to tight deadlines