Financial Controller 12-month FTC

The OpportunityWant to work for a scaling fintech lending business (FCA regulated) covering a 12-month maternity cover FTC?If so, this is just the role for you, great people and working environment, varied work with mix of business as usual and projects with regular interaction with CFO and CEO and to top off 2 days in the office and 3 work from home.The roleLead the month end close, including managing and coaching the team, performing and documenting review controls, and planning cover across the team.Own source to ledger data integrity, leading the team to maintain reconciliations and checks through data platform changes.Drive process improvements, including faster time to close, more frequent prepayments and accruals postings, and timely, clearly labelled results for the CEO and ExCo.Own technical accounting, including accounting policies, technical memos and judgement areas such as expected credit losses, effective interest, loan modifications, share based payments and compound financial instruments.Support lender and facility reporting with the Treasurer and CFO. This means producing and reconciling the month end data that feeds covenant calculations and lender certificates, and maintaining the bridge between management accounts and audited IFRS accounts.Lead the annual audit with our external auditors, including project management, producing the annual IFRS accounts and disclosures, and preparing technical memos and audit evidence.Strengthen controls and resilience by documenting runbooks and training a deputy for each critical finance process.Support statutory and regulatory returns and system access governance, in line with the CFO’s allocation of ownership, and act as finance representative in incident management.What experience and skills will you have?ACA qualified (or equivalent) with strong pqe experience, including managing a team.Strong IFRS knowledge, ideally including expected credit loss outputs and amortised cost accounting.Experience working with lender covenants and facility reporting desirableConfident working with external auditors.Experience working within fintech/financial services/FCA regulated businessesAvailability:To start within 1 month/4 weeks’ notice