Finance Controller

Sewell Wallis is delighted to be partnering with a PE-backed business in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, to recruit a Financial Controller. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a high-growth, dynamic organisation with a clear pathway to Finance Director within 2-3 years.

Reporting to the Finance Director, you'll lead the day-to-day finance function, managing and developing a team of 12, while ensuring strong financial controls, smooth operations, and effective planning across BAU activity.

This Financial Controller role offers valuable exposure to a PE environment (experience beneficial but not essential), alongside the chance to drive system improvements, process enhancements, and automation as the business scales. If you're a proactive people leader looking for your next step with genuine progression, I'd love to hear from you.

What will you be doing?

• Managing a team of 12, you'll need to be a strong and proactive people manager who enjoys developing people, you'll be overseeing BAU, ensuring effective workload planning for the team.
• You'll have full ownership of the monthly close process, ensuring timely, accurate and consistent management accounts, overseeing balance sheet reconciliations, and financial controls.
• Act as a senior finance partner to department heads, supporting budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning.
• Prepare high quality financial commentary and analysis for the Finance Director, CFO, and wider leadership team.
• Lead and support finance led system upgrades, process redesign and automation initiatives as the business evolves and scales.
• Oversee cash flow forecasting, payment approvals, working capital management and credit control escalation.

What skills are we looking for?

• Qualified candidate (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Experience working within a PE backed business
• Strong technical knowledge
• People management skills (managed a team of 5+)
• Experience delivering finance transformation
• Experience with Sage Intacct, Salesforce, or similar ERP

What's on offer?

• A competitive salary of up to 90,000
• Hybrid working - 3 days in office
• Clear progression plan to Finance Director
• Healthcare
• Transaction bonus potential
• Modern offices in a central Sheffield location with parking available.

Send us your CV below, or contact Inci Evcil for more information.

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.