Group Financial Controller
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About the Role
Sewell Wallis is searching for a Group Financial Controller to join a family-owned and rapidly growing Distribution business based in North Leeds, West Yorkshire.
The company is a market leader within its sector, with ambitious plans for continued expansion through strategic acquisitions that have already been identified, which should increase turnover by x3 over the next five years.
Following a recent merger, they are looking for an experienced finance leader to oversee three entities, support upcoming integration and merger activity, manage day-to-day financial operations, and take ownership of statutory accounts, audit processes, and wider group reporting requirements.
The business operates within the distribution and supply-chain sector, so industry experience would be advantageous. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical finance background, excellent treasury management experience, strong commercial acumen, and exposure to acquisitions and mergers.
It’s a fantastic time to join the business. They are committed to investing in both their technology and people, with plans to implement a new ERP system and continually enhance their systems and processes to maintain a competitive advantage. This role offers the opportunity to play a key part in building the foundations for a significant period of growth and would be a genuinely interesting challenge for the right person.
What will you be doing?
- Lead the Group month-end close, multi-entity consolidation, and production of accurate, timely management accounts and Board reporting.
- Maintain robust financial controls, ensuring balance sheet integrity, compliance with UK accounting standards, tax requirements, and statutory reporting.
- Develop and embed financial governance, policies, risk management, and audit-ready controls across the Group.
- Manage cash flow, working capital, treasury activities, and short-term forecasting to optimise liquidity and financial performance.
- Support budgeting and forecasting by providing accurate financial data, validating assumptions, and ensuring reconciled actuals.
- Partner with the CFO on acquisitions, due diligence, post-acquisition integration, and financial reporting alignment.
- Drive continuous improvement of finance systems, reporting processes, and controls to enhance accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
- Lead, develop, and mentor the finance control team, establishing consistent standards, accountability, and collaboration across the Group.
What skills are we looking for?
- Qualified Accountant – with a strong technical background (ideally practice trained)
- Comfortable leading on statutory accounts, audit, tax requirements and consolidations.
- Supply-chain, manufacturing, distribution and logistics experience would be beneficial (although not essential)
- Integration experience, having mergers or decentralised finance operations into a group function
- Strong treasury and cash management experience
- Experience working at Group Financial Controller level
What's on offer?
- Competitive salary of £85,000-£95,000
- Hybrid working
- Parking on site
- Company pension
- Annual bonus
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To apply, please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications, please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry. We offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.