Financial Controller

The Role

We're looking for a Financial Controller to join the Ffern team. As a Financial Controller, you will be responsible for overseeing our financial operations, ensuring accurate reporting and compliance, and supporting strategic decision-making through detailed financial analysis. You'll report directly into our Finance Director and work closely with cross-functional teams to maintain robust financial processes in our fast-growing environment.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Reporting

• Work closely with our bookkeeping team to deliver timely and accurate financial reporting on a monthly basis
• Own statutory year-end reporting and compliance
• Drive month-end close improvements, creating robust processes in a rapidly growing environment
• Work closely with the FD to provide detailed financial analysis to support leadership decision-making
• Review the preparations of corporation tax, VAT, and any other relevant taxes/tariffs
• Support cash flow forecasting and working capital management

Audit Management

• Support the FD as a key point of contact for external auditors during the year-end audit
• Coordinate and manage audit requests, ensuring the timely provision of accurate documentation and responses.

Stakeholder Management

• Work with department heads to support the FD with regular analysis & budgeting/forecasting
• Support the team with payment runs and supplier communications
• Liaise with external advisors on both regular support and ad hoc work

Process Improvement

• Own and ensure continued integrity and robust financial processes
• Identify and implement improvements in financial processes, systems and controls to drive efficiency and accuracy

Your profile

• Accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, or equivalent)
• 3 years as a Financial Controller or similar finance leadership role post qualification
• Proven experience in closing the books in a short time and preparing consolidated financial statements (multi-currency / multi-entity accounting)
• Excellent financial controls and compliance knowledge, including VAT, payroll, and tax regulations (EU and US experience are an advantage)
• Advanced Google Suite skills
• Track record of improving processes and systems
• Start-up/Scale-up experience: you need to be comfortable operating in a lean, resourceful environment and have a hands-on mentality

The Interview Process

1. Meet & Greet Call with a Talent Partner
2. Introduction call with the Hiring Manager
3. Technical Call/Live Assessment with Finance Director
4. Ffern Studio visit: Meeting key stakeholders and wider team

At the final stage, we would like to invite to the studio to meet the wider team.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary: Experience dependent
• Healthcare: Private healthcare offered as standard
• Holidays: 25 days holiday + bank holidays, growing by 1 day per year spent with us
• Remote work: All full-time London studio roles are three days a week in the studio, with two days flexible (team lunch at a top Hackney eatery if you come in on the flexible days)
• Ffern membership: All of our team are members of the Ffern ledger
• Team dynamic: Fun, laid-back and sociable team with regular team meals, breakfasts, drinks and outings
• Beautiful work environment: We work from a pair of sunlit studio spaces off Columbia road with state-of-the-art kit, MacBooks and breakout spaces

N.B. Ffern is growing fast, with a plethora of exciting projects on the horizon. This means our roles are somewhat flexible. If you don't tick every box, but feel passionate about what you could bring to the table, please do apply.