We’re partnering with a leading international business to recruit a Financial Controller to join the controllership team within their European Shared Service Centre.
This is a high-impact, high-visibility role with a clear mandate: to transform and elevate controllership into a best-in-class, insight-led finance function. You’ll be instrumental in shaping how finance supports a complex, multi-entity European operation—moving from efficient delivery to true strategic value.
This is an opportunity to step into a role where your influence will be felt across the business. You’ll lead change, enhance control, and develop a team capable of operating at a significantly higher level. If you’re motivated by building, improving, and leading from the front, this role offers both challenge and genuine scope.
Financial Controller – Shared Services – Benefits
- 25 days annual leave
- 9:00 am – 17:00 – Office-based position
- Company Car
- Salary Exchange Pension Scheme
- Non-Contributory Life Assurance
- Private Medical Insurance
- Group Income Protection
Financial Controller – Shared Services – About The Role
Reporting to the Director of European Shared Services, you will take ownership of the controllership agenda across multiple European entities, driving both performance and transformation.
- Act as the European lead for R2R, setting the standard for governance, control, and best practice
- Own the integrity, accuracy, and completeness of financial reporting across all entities
- Lead balance sheet governance, ensuring risks are identified, understood, and resolved proactively
- Ensure alignment across management, statutory, and tax reporting frameworks
- Lead the end-to-end close process, driving quality, consistency, and reduced cycle times
- Create a “first-time right” culture across journals, reconciliations, and reporting
- Oversee the delivery of clear, insightful reporting and meaningful performance analysis
- Lead the relationship with external auditors, ensuring smooth and efficient audit cycles
- Own and strengthen the control environment, including SOX compliance
- Lead, develop, and inspire a team of c.10–15, building capability and accountability
- Drive standardisation and optimisation of processes across European operations
- Identify and deliver efficiencies, improving close timelines and reporting quality
- Champion automation and the effective use of systems (SAP S/4HANA, OneStream)
- Act as a key link between Shared Services, local finance teams, and Group Finance
The successful Financial Controller – Shared Services will have:
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
- Proven controllership experience within a complex, international environment
- Strong technical accounting knowledge (IFRS / US GAAP) and controls (SOX preferred)
- A track record of driving improvement, transformation, and team development
- Strong systems capability (SAP S/4HANA, OneStream or similar preferred)