Financial Controller
Job description
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This position is particularly critical as the business transitions and brings its European operations into a consolidated reporting framework. Working closely with the Head of Finance, this role will take a lead position in strengthening financial control, enhancing reporting quality, and supporting strategic decision-making. The candidate must have experience of working within a LLP
You can be based in either the Brighton or London office on a hybrid basis - 3 days PW office
Duties will include but not be limited too:
- Play a pivotal role in establishing a robust group reporting and consolidation framework
- Shape and strengthen financial controls across a multi-entity, international structure
- Partner with senior stakeholders across Finance and the wider business
- Lead and support the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual group financial reporting
- Play a key role in the consolidation of UK and international entities, including intercompany eliminations and reconciliations
- Support the preparation and delivery of statutory accounts across UK and international entities
- Take ownership of the balance sheet, ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and completeness of financial data across all entities
- Lead the review, challenge, and resolution of complex reconciliations, proactively identifying risks and driving corrective action
- Provide leadership on WIP management, including strategic oversight of aged WIP, ensuring robust valuation methodologies, and partnering with stakeholders to improve billing discipline, recovery rates, and cash conversion
- Partner closely with Finance Managers and support functions to provide robust financial insight and constructive challenge
- Support budgeting and forecasting processes, ensuring alignment with business objectives
- Identify and lead opportunities to enhance financial processes, controls, and reporting capability
Skill set
- Qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA
- Experience of working within a LLP environment either as a Senior Manager making the first move or in a professional services business
- Strong experience in financial reporting within a complex environment
- Proven experience of balance sheet ownership and financial control
- Strong technical accounting knowledge and understanding of governance frameworks
- Advanced analytical capability and attention to detail
Key skills
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Application advice
5 AI-generated recommendations to maximise your chances.
⭐ Lead your CV Personal Statement with your ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualification and explicit LLP experience, as the advert flags LLP background as a hard requirement in the skills section.
📊 Quantify your consolidation scope: e.g. 'Consolidated 8 international entities, reducing month-end close from 12 to 7 days', to directly mirror the multi-entity consolidation emphasis.
🎯 Dedicate a bullet to WIP management with recovery-rate or cash-conversion metrics, as the advert specifically calls out aged WIP, billing discipline, and recovery rates as a key responsibility.
🌐 Highlight any cross-border or European reporting experience prominently, since the role centres on bringing European operations into a consolidated framework.
🤝 Evidence stakeholder partnering at senior level — cite Finance Directors, Heads of Finance, or C-suite — to reflect the advert's repeated emphasis on partnering with senior stakeholders across Finance and the wider business.
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- •Led group consolidation of 6 UK and European entities within an LLP structure, reducing month-end close cycle from 14 to 9 days and eliminating £2.3M in intercompany mismatches.
- •Owned balance sheet integrity across 4 international subsidiaries, designing a reconciliation governance framework that reduced unreconciled items by 74% within two reporting cycles.
- •Drove WIP management programme across a 200-fee-earner professional services business, improving recovery rates by 8 percentage points and accelerating cash conversion by 18 days.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Alexander Lloyd's Financial Controller opportunity sits at the intersection of two areas where I have built deep expertise: group consolidation across multi-entity LLP structures and the strengthening of financial controls during periods of structural change. The emphasis on intercompany eliminations, balance sheet ownership, and WIP management across international entities maps directly to the work I have been doing at senior level.
My background in financial reporting within professional services has equipped me to lead complex consolidations — including cross-border intercompany reconciliations — while simultaneously partnering with senior stakeholders to improve billing discipline and cash conversion. I hold a full ACA qualification and have operated within LLP governance frameworks, giving me the technical grounding this role demands from day one.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›Walk us through how you would design and implement a group consolidation framework for a multi-entity LLP with European subsidiaries.
- ›How do you approach intercompany eliminations when entities operate in different currencies and under different local GAAP?
- ›Describe your methodology for balance sheet ownership — how do you ensure completeness and integrity across all entities at month-end?
- ›What governance frameworks have you put in place to strengthen financial controls in a complex, multi-entity environment?
- ›How have you managed WIP valuation in a professional services business, and what steps did you take to improve billing discipline and cash conversion?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you identified a significant risk through a complex reconciliation and drove the corrective action to resolution.
- ›Describe a situation where you had to challenge senior stakeholders on financial data quality or reporting accuracy — how did you approach it?
- ›Give an example of leading a process improvement initiative in financial reporting — what was the outcome?
- ›Tell me about a time you supported a business through a major structural transition, such as a consolidation or change in reporting framework.
- ›Describe a situation where you had to balance competing priorities across multiple entities or finance teams — how did you manage it?
STAR answer examples
Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Tell me about a time you identified a significant risk through a complex reconciliation and drove the corrective action to resolution.
Describe a situation where you had to challenge senior stakeholders on financial data quality or reporting accuracy — how did you approach it?