Group Financial Controller
Role Overview
Lead the financial control environment across Bettys & Taylors Group.
This leadership role is responsible for the group's accounting, tax, treasury, and transactional finance teams.
The role is part of the Group Finance Leadership Team and reports to the Group Finance Director.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Lead the financial control environment across Bettys & Taylors Group.
This leadership role is responsible for the group's accounting, tax, treasury, and transactional finance teams.
The role is part of the Group Finance Leadership Team and reports to the Group Finance Director.
Key responsibilities
- Lead and develop accounting, tax, treasury, and transactional finance teams.
- Maintain accurate financial and management accounts, monthly results, and annual statutory accounts; ensure compliance with UK GAAP and accounting standards.
- Improve financial controls, governance, policies, monitoring, and performance measures.
- Lead tax compliance and ensure Senior Accounting Officer requirements and HMRC expectations are met.
- Lead statutory audits and oversee statutory accounts and external financial reporting.
- Manage bank accounts, treasury requirements, payment processes, liquidity, cash flow, working capital, and banking relationships.
- Lead foreign-exchange hedging for significant US dollar exposure in line with treasury policy.
- Advise leaders on financial risks and opportunities, monitor legislation and market developments, and contribute to group finance strategy and change.
Candidate requirements
- Professional accountancy qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or CPA, or equivalent demonstrable finance expertise.
- Significant experience leading multiple teams across accounting, tax, treasury, and transactional finance; FMCG, retail, or multisite experience is ideal.
- Substantial treasury, liquidity, and cash-management experience, including cash-flow forecasting and banking relationship management.
- Experience leading tax compliance, including Corporation Tax and VAT, in a large or complex organisation.
- Significant foreign-exchange risk management and hedging experience; exposure above USD 100 million is ideal.
- Knowledge of hedging instruments, hedge accounting, counterparty risk, and foreign-exchange policy frameworks.
- Strong relationships with banks, auditors, tax specialists, and other professional advisers.
- High ethical standards, sound judgement, technical expertise, commercial judgement, and strategic awareness.
Working pattern and location
- Full-time role, working 37.5 hours over five days, based at the Plumpton Park site in Harrogate.
- Hybrid working and flexible hours can be accommodated.
Salary
- Annual salary is competitive.
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