Interim Group Controller (UK)
Job Description
Company Description
The CFO HQ is a global professional services platform redefining the way organisations access financial leadership. We connect businesses with world-class CFOs, delivering advisory, transformation, and growth support through our national and international leadership network. Our model is built on trust, expertise, and impact, enabling CEOs and CFOs to shape industries and guide companies through their most critical phases of growth and challenges.
We provide outsourced CFO, controller, and accounting services for growing enterprises to augment and streamline their operations. By partnering with THE CFO HQ team, our clients have access to financial professionals with decades of experience without the need for a full-time staff.
Our mission is simple: enable better financial decision-making through expert insight and execution.
Job brief
This is a highly confidential engagement managed by THE CFO HQ to support one of our CFOs on an interim basis. We are looking for an experienced finance professional to support us with a pivotal project. Located in Manchester, we are seeking an experienced Finance Controller/ Finance Director who will oversee our client’s daily finance operations, strategy, reporting, people management, and transformation initiatives during a critical transition period. If this aligns with your expertise, we would love to hear from you.
The Role
Reporting directly to the CFO, the Interim expert will play a key role in overseeing financial operations, ensuring compliance, and supporting strategic decision-making. The ideal candidate will work closely with our CFO to stabilize and enhance financial processes, contributing to long-term growth initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the finance function, ensuring effective financial management, planning, and reporting..
- Oversee financial controls, budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow management..
- Oversee monthend operations, and monthly management reporting.
- Oversee the ongoing audit process, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements
- Drive transformation initiatives, optimizing financial systems and processes.
- Collaborate with Directors and Shareholders to align financial strategy with business objectives.
- Drive transformation initiatives, optimizing financial systems and processes.
- Provide strategic insights and recommendations to support commercial decision-making.
- Ensure robust risk management, governance, and financial integrity.
- Work closely with external auditors, advisors, and stakeholders.
- Manage finance team to ensure stability and clarity of purpose with all finance initiatives and projects.
- Create and implement new sales initiatives, methods, and programs in order to increase revenue.
Requirements
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with significant leadership experience.
- Strong background in financial management, audit, and transformation
- Proven ability to work in a dynamic and fast evolving business environment.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working within infrastructure, engineering, or related sectors is advantageous.
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Ability to operate at both strategic and hands-on levels, ensuring financial resilience and operational efficiency
Why Join The CFO HQ
- Lead high-impact programmes with leading asset managers and financial institutions
- Flexible contract or permanent opportunities
- Operate at senior stakeholder level across finance, investment, and technology
- Be part of a fast-scaling, advisory-led platform with global ambitions
At The CFO HQ, you wont just be another consultant, you will join a collective of active minds shaping the future of financial leadership. You’ll be part of an international advisory network where analysts, controllers, and entrepreneurial CFOs thrive, where innovation meets execution, and where impact is measured not only in numbers, but in the enduring value created for clients and communities.
To explore our Controller opportunities, please complete our application form below or send your CV for consideration to: Hello@thecfohq.com
Apply now or reach out to discuss leadership opportunities within our delivery teams.
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