Interim Financial Controller - 9 month FTC

Immediate start | £100,000 - £120,000 pa
East Sussex |Mainly Office-Based with some flexibility

LHH Recruitment Solutions are seeking a highly capable and immediately available Interim Financial Controller to support a rapidly growing organisation based in East Sussex. This role will play a key part in strengthening financial reporting, improving processes, and ensuring high-quality management information to support decision-making across the group.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver accurate and timely monthly management accounts across multiple entities within the group
• Consolidate financial data from a range of sources and ensure consistency of reporting
• Work closely with the FP&A team to analyse and explain variances versus prior periods and budget and provide meaningful financial insight to support decision-making
• Prepare supporting schedules and analysis for the monthly Management Information pack
• Identify opportunities to improve financial processes, controls, and reporting efficiency
• Support optimisation of the group's core finance system and broader use of reporting tools, including Excel
• Maintain robust financial controls across the group and ensure timely and accurate submission of financial and operational data from various business units
• Monitor group cash balances and support effective cash management, including ensuring obligations are met
• Lead and develop the finance team

Key Skills / experience:

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or ACMA) with strong post-qualification experience
• Demonstrated experience operating in a multi-entity environment
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders
• Advanced Excel capability and experience working with ERP systems
• Proactive and solutions-oriented, with a focus on continuous improvement
• Ability to balance attention to detail with a strategic, group-wide perspective
• Experience in coaching and developing finance team members