Financial Controller

Position: Financial Controller
Location: Aldridge, Walsall, UK (Office-based)
Type: Full-Time
Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 per annum depending on experience
Benefits: Car allowance or company car, 25 days holiday + birthdays off
Reports To: Managing Director


Our client is a well-established, family-run business with over 50 years of experience in the restoration and conservation of fine art, antiques, furniture, and collectables. As a project-based business, they work closely with private collectors, auction houses, insurers, and museums to restore and preserve valuable items to the highest standards. With their recent expansion to a 32,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Aldridge, they are poised for further growth and are looking for a hands-on Financial Controller to help drive their continued success.


We are seeking a commercially astute Financial Controller who thrives in a project-based SME environment. This is a hands-on role requiring involvement in day-to-day transactional finance, while also leading a small but growing team. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in shaping the financial strategy of the business, ensuring strong financial controls, and supporting future expansion. With ambitious growth plans, this role has the potential to develop into a Finance Director position in the future.

 

  • Financial Strategy & Leadership: Develop and implement financial strategies to support business growth and profitability.
  • Hands-on Finance Management: Oversee all financial operations, from daily transactions to strategic financial planning.
  • Budgeting & Reporting: Lead the budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting processes to support decision-making.
  • Cash Flow & Risk Management: Ensure robust controls are in place to manage financial risk, cash flow, and working capital.
  • Team Development: Manage and mentor a small but expanding finance team, fostering a culture of efficiency and accuracy.
  • Project-Based Finance: Work closely with project managers to provide financial oversight and reporting on individual projects.
  • ICT & Systems Oversight: Oversee financial systems and processes, ensuring continuous improvements and efficiency.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience in a project-based SME business, ideally within restoration, construction, or other service-led industries.
  • Proven hands-on financial management skills, with a track record of improving financial processes.
  • Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent).
  • Strong commercial acumen and the ability to influence decision-making at senior levels.
  • Experience managing a small finance team, with the ability to mentor and develop staff.
  • Ambitious and strategic mindset, with the potential to step up into a Finance Director role.

Benefits

  • Growth-Focused Environment: Join a company that values personal development and internal career progression.
  • Comprehensive Benefits Package:
    • Free lunch, staff refreshments, and annual health assessments.
    • Mental health and wellbeing support.
    • Company vehicle/allowance and role-specific training.
    • Profit-sharing bonus through a Growth By Sharing scheme.
    • Personal Prosperity Plan for individual financial growth.


If you are a hands-on Financial Controller looking for a dynamic, project-led role within an ambitious SME, we would love to hear from you.

Join an exciting, growing company and take the next step in your career!

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Universal Business Team (“UBT”) is a global enterprise spanning 19 countries across the United Kingdom, Europe, North America, Central America and Australasia. UBT, headquartered in Sydney, Australia, is a diversified business consultancy that supports clients with business-advisory and group-buying services with the objective to help businesses develop a competitive edge. UBT was launched in 2009 in response to the Global Financial Crisis to support client organisations that were either in distress or looking to improve their competitiveness and financial performance. Currently, UBT turns over $500M (AUD) and has aspirations for significant growth over the next three to five years. A recent decision was made to bring four separate global regions together under the one global brand and leadership team. UBT’s business advisory services comprise corporate training, consulting, recruitment, accounting, and group buying services. UBT facilitates leadership and business excellence for our client’s in their respective industries. Through the group buying function, UBT nurtures mutually-beneficial relationships between member businesses and world-leading providers of business goods and services. The outcome to which we strive is a “win-win” for small-to-medium enterprises and big business alike. UBT provides services and products to approximately 3,000 independent, family-owned businesses globally with combined annual revenues exceeding $12B (AUD). The majority are small to medium sized enterprises with typical annual revenue ranges between $5m-$20m. However, there are also some larger businesses with annual revenues in the range of $100m-$250m. The unifying feature of all UBT’s clients is that the owners are parishioners of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (PBCC). UBT (which is owned by the PBCC) supports clients by providing products, services and support designed to increase their profitability and growth. The after-tax profits generated by UBT are reinvested into community initiatives, predominantly through schools (established to educate the children of Brethren families) and charities, such as the Rapid Relief Team (“RRT”) and the Red Cross. UBT Recruitment are an Equal Opportunities Employer. We will apply a rigorous, objective selection process using non-discriminatory criteria, as far as possible on behalf of all the businesses we recruit for.To view our policy in full please contact [email protected]

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