Interim Financial Controller

FD Recruit is partnering with a life sciences business operating across the UK and Ireland to engage an interim Group Financial Controller. The position is for an initial 3 months and we are considering candidates on both a limited company, day rate and fixed term contract basis. The role would suit a Financial Controller or Finance Director with experience in multi entity, multi country businesses, experience in the life sciences sector is desirable. The FC will be required on site for at least 3 days per week and will have the following responsibilities:

• Provide governance and oversight of the finance function, with roughly 6 direct reports, site level Financial Controllers and a wider team of approximately 23 doing.
• Oversee the financials across a multi-site, multi-entity portfolio spanning the UK and Ireland with group turnover of approximately £150M.
• Manage consolidation, pulling results from disparate systems into a single, coherent group format.
• Provide oversight of upcoming month-ends, quarter-ends and audits run locally at site level, but needing senior governance.
• Identify process improvements, synergies and efficiencies, and flag areas of concern.
• Provide technical oversight and review as well as translating numbers into strategic insight and providing analysis and recommendations to the CFO.
• Maintain good order and financial management throughout the interim engagement.

Skills/experience required:

• Experience as a Senior Financial Controller or hands on Finance Director level, with genuine depth of experience.
• Strong multi-site, multi-entity background, ideally from a buy-and-build / acquisitive environment.
• Comfortable working across a fragmented setup with disparate systems and processes.
• Agile and self-sufficient, able to collate inconsistent data sources and present them in one consistent format.
• Able to translate between the technical detail and the strategic picture.
• Sector experience is not essential but would be a distinct advantage.
• Multi-site experience required.