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Financial Close Manager

Alexander Lloyd
Posted 10 hours ago, valid for 16 days
Location

London, Greater London EC1R 0WX

Contract type

Full Time

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  • The client is seeking an experienced ACA/ACCA/CIMA Controller (Financial Close Manager/Product Controller) to join a newly formed finance team in London, offering a six-figure salary.
  • Candidates should have significant experience in the BAU side of financial control, particularly in driving month-end close and engaging with stakeholders.
  • A background in change and transformation is essential, along with experience in the insurance sector or wider regulated financial services.
  • The role requires a qualified accountant with significant post-qualification experience (PQE) and strong technical accounting skills.
  • This position offers opportunities for development within a growing team and involves managing multiple stakeholder relationships while ensuring data quality and financial controls.

We are supporting our long standing client to hire an experienced and Qualified ACA/ ACCA/ CIMA Controller (Financial Close Manager/ Product Controller) to be part of this newly formed team within the wider finance function and play a key part in developing it and adding value from day 1!

London based / hybrid working/ 6 figure package

Our client needs someone who is comfortable and has strong experience in the BAU side of financial control and driving month end close, engaging with stakeholders across all departments to ensure accurate data across the GL & Balance sheets. A background and passion for change and transformation because this is where the roles main drivers sit.

You will collaborate with various teams across the finance and project teams. This is a senior finance role that will be high profile in the business including managing multiple stakeholder relationships and you will sit as part of the Financial Management Team and deputise for your Manager in their absence.

You will be the engine room of the finance function, driving the month end close. Ensuring robust data is produced by relevant finance functions. Acting as the custodian of the GL.

This work will centre around the quality of data, how that impacts the GL, what changes impact the GL, identifying new financial controls and embedding them into the business, establishing Quality Assurance controls, identifying commercial drivers that impact the GL, working closely with the I.T team to create new dashboards and reporting, to automate existing manual processes.

This is a team that will grow which offers lots of development opportunities.

The Person

路Passion and energetic approach to change

路Project/ change management experience would be a significant advantage

路Insurance sector experience is ESSENTIAL whether in audit or industry (may consider wider regulated financial services dependent on experience)

路Qualified Accountant with significant PQE

路Comfortable with a hands on role

.Strong technical accounting skill set

Please quote 51288 when calling Alexander Lloyd This is only one of many vacancies we are handling. Alexander Lloyd is the leading recruiter across a range of roles within the Finance and Accountancy space. From part to fully qualified accountants within Financial Reporting, Management Accounts, FP&A, commercial finance up to Director level throughout Surrey, Sussex, London & Kent.

Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually, therefore if you do not hear back from one of our consultants you have not been shortlisted for this role.

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