Interim Financial Controller
Robert Walters
Reading, England, United Kingdom
Accounting / Auditing
Are you a qualified finance professional with a passion for governance, reporting, and driving financial excellence? We're recruiting on behalf of a leading NFP organisation for a Financial Controller to play a pivotal role in maintaining strong financial governance and supporting impactful initiatives.
As the Financial Controller, you'll ensure robust financial reporting, compliance, and control across all external and internal financial information. Key responsibilities include:
- Financial Reporting: Manage relationships with external auditors, oversee annual report preparation, and implement changes required by new charities SORP.
- Taxation: Act as the subject matter expert on tax compliance, develop tax strategies to minimise costs, and support teams on taxation changes.
- Cashflow Management: Oversee banking relationships, manage cashflow and liquidity planning, and ensure effective transaction processing.
- Governance & Controls: Maintain up-to-date finance policies, supervise risk and assurance processes, and ensure compliance with legislation alongside legal counsel.
- Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop the financial control team while fostering a high-performance culture focused on continuous improvement.
What We're Looking For:
- ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualified finance professional with experience in financial control and statutory accounts preparation.
- Strong knowledge of accounting processes, controls, and tax issues
- Advanced Excel skills paired with experience working within risk-based control environments.
- Proven ability to coach and develop staff while driving process improvements.
- Attention to detail with excellent report-writing and influencing skills.
Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates
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Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, recruitment process outsourcing and advisory services to organisations of all shapes and sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds.
The businesses we partner with want to make things happen. And they need people to do it. They have goals. They have challenges. They want answers.
We deliver the talent solutions they need to reach their goals. That might mean recruiting a permanent, temporary, or interim professional. It might mean putting together an outsourced team of 30 recruitment experts. Or it might mean reframing the way they think about remuneration or diversity.
Whatever the solution, we deliver better experiences and higher quality outcomes by taking the time to listen to, and fully connect with, the people and organisations we partner with. Our ability to truly understand them and share their compelling stories is what sets us apart.
By engaging with people's stories, we help organisations find the skills and solutions to succeed and assist talented professionals to power their unique potential.
The biggest opportunities start with a story, tell us yours today.