Contract: Fixed-term / Interim (circa 6+ months)
Location: UK-based (remote with periodic on-site engagement if desired)
Reporting to: Finance Director

Role Overview
Our client is seeking an experienced Interim Financial Controller / Group Reporting Lead to take ownership of a complex, Excel-based group consolidation across multiple legal entities, jurisdictions, and currencies.

The role will focus on stabilising and improving legacy consolidation models, working closely with regional finance teams to ensure data integrity, and delivering audit-ready group outputs. This is a hands-on, detail-intensive role requiring strong technical accounting judgement, advanced Excel capability, and the confidence to challenge existing approaches and senior stakeholders where required.

Key Responsibilities

• Group Consolidation Ownership: Take full ownership of the group consolidation process across multiple legal entities and jurisdictions, ensuring accurate treatment of intercompany balances, foreign exchange, eliminations, and group adjustments
• Legacy Model Review and Remediation: Perform a detailed review of existing Excel-based consolidation models, identify structural weaknesses or technical issues, and redesign or remediate files to create a robust, transparent, and auditable consolidation framework
• Data Quality & Control Improvement: Clean, rationalise, and document complex spreadsheets, introducing appropriate reconciliations, control checks, and audit trails to improve reliability and reduce key-person dependency
• Stakeholder & Regional Finance Coordination: Work closely with regional finance leads to define data requirements, challenge assumptions, resolve inconsistencies, and ensure timely and accurate inputs into the consolidation process.
• Audit Liaison & Issue Resolution: Act as a key point of contact for external auditors on group consolidation and legal entity matters, preparing supporting documentation, responding to queries, and resolving issues efficiently
• Ad-hoc Technical & Legal Entity Support: Support the UK Finance Director with ad-hoc accounting queries, technical assessments, and legal entity reporting matters as required

To apply you will be a fully qualified accountant with excellent group consolidation experience and a grounding in Audit.

For more information, please contact Derek Lauder at Rutherford Cross: [email protected].

Our client is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy and maternity.