Kennedy Pearce specialises in recruiting high-performing Financial Controllers who oversee financial operations, ensure regulatory compliance, and support strategic leadership across a wide range of industries. Financial Controllers play a pivotal role in managing financial reporting, internal controls, and team leadership to drive business performance.
Typical responsibilities for Financial Controllers include:
Leading the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements
Managing budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis processes
Overseeing audit preparation, tax compliance, and regulatory reporting
Implementing and maintaining robust internal controls and accounting policies
Leading and mentoring finance teams to ensure accuracy and efficiency
Supporting CFOs or Finance Directors with strategic planning and decision-making
Managing cash flow, working capital, and risk reporting
Working with financial systems such as SAP, Oracle, Sage, NetSuite, and Power BI
Kennedy Pearce places Financial Controllers with strong leadership, technical accounting expertise, and commercial insight. We recruit for permanent, interim, and project-based roles across sectors.
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KennedyPearce offers a bespoke Recruitment Process Outsourcing solution to support your recruitment strategy.We propose an offsite/onsite model which is built, tailored to your needs, whether your requirements are to service a 360 end to end course of all recruitment to just candidate management and on boarding.We position ourselves to immerse and fully understand our clients’ culture and working environment, to educate and share market insights, to engage and on-board talent, to forecast and share hiring patterns and to constantly evaluate and look to enhance our service offering to best meet the requirements of our partnership. To find out more about how we can support your recruitment strategy please get in touch on outsourcingsolutions@kennedypearce.comCurrent Partnership: Our outsourcing solution entity are currently operating a successful onsite offering with ICE (Intercontinental Exchange Group). Working closely with decision makers across all areas of the business our delivery team are responsible for an extensive variety of hires, entry to senior level, across ICE’s European HQ sites.
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