Job Description

Title: Regional Financial Controller

Location: Newmarket, Suffolk

Salary: £80,000 - £90,000 + benefits + discretional bonus

About The Company

We're retained by a private equity backed, internationally headquartered business with the creation of a new Regional Financial Controller role in the UK.

Operating within the freight-forwarding and logistics space, our client has embarked on a significant growth path fuelled by global strategic acquisitions, including across Europe.

Our client's UK headquarters is Newmarket, Suffolk. Please note - this is a 5 day on-site requirement. 

About The Role

This newly-created role reports into the Global CFO and locally supports the UK GM. 

The Regional Financial Controller will bring an immediate structural rigour to the European operations, with your core focus including:

• directly managing and mentoring local entity accountants
• standardising closing cadences across jurisdictions
• providing financial leadership across the region
• roll out of NetSuite across the entities as part of global ERP transformation
• acting as the strategic conduit between transatlantic operations and the Global HQ executive team

This role requires a unique blend of hands-on controllership authority (driving local close integrity, local GAAP compliance, and cash control across multiple entities) and commercial FP&A capability (variance narratives, and regional rolling forecasts).

About The Candidate

We're not wedded to industry / sector specific candidates in this search.

While a freight forwarding / logistics / distribution background will help, certainly across an international scale, it is not essential.

We're open to the right candidate making a move directly from a mid-to-large accountancy practice, but this will be dependent on your direct experiences, client base and overall communication & stakeholder management exposure during that time.

An ACA / ACCA / ICAEW trained accountant with a few years PQE in industry will likely have the most rounded skill set and ability required to make an immediate impact in this role.

To note again, you will be required to be on-site in Newmarket 5 days. There is the view for this to lighten as your become settled into the role.