ACA-qualified Chartered Accountant with Big Four audit training and rapid progression into senior financial control and reporting roles within a FTSE-listed group. Technically excellent across IFRS and UK GAAP, with hands-on ownership of group financial statements, control frameworks, and board-level reporting — combined with genuine data and automation capability that sets them apart from a typical technical accountant.
A commercially aware, pragmatic finance professional who gets into the detail, solves complex accounting problems, and consistently delivers improvements to control environments and reporting quality.
What makes them genuinely different:
- Owns the Group Annual Report and Accounts end-to-end for a FTSE-listed business — front and back half — including preparation, external auditor liaison, and disclosure review.
- Full ownership of the Group financial control framework, including design, operation, and continuous improvement of key controls across the finance function.
- Identified recurring opportunities of c.£500k through peer comparisons of depreciation policies, lease and dilapidation judgements — commercial instinct to look beyond compliance and find real financial benefit.
- Led investigation and remediation of a complex historic VAT reclaim of approximately £400k, plus identified c.£200k per annum in recurring savings from payroll and VAT errors.
- Key contributor to a finance system transformation from Sage 200 to Oracle NetSuite, including opening balance testing, control design, access governance, and IFRS 16 lease tool implementation.
- Big Four trained across FTSE-listed, multinational, and PE-backed clients — deep technical grounding across IFRS 15, IFRS 16, IAS 21, IFRS 9, and group consolidation.
- Genuinely data-literate in a way most financial accountants are not — proficient in SQL, Alteryx, Databricks, Power BI and PowerApps, applied practically to improve reporting efficiency and control coverage.
Best suited for: Group Financial Accounting Manager or Financial Reporting Manager roles within a listed, private equity-backed, or complex group structure. The ideal hire for a CFO or Finance Director who wants a technically rigorous, commercially aware finance professional who can own the numbers, strengthen the control environment, and bring genuine analytical capability alongside the accounting expertise.
