Financial Controller in London

We’re Gravita: the accountants fuelling ambitious businesses. We’re a top 30 accounting firm working with entrepreneurs and businesses to help them achieve their goals, and make an impact in the world.

We’re growing fast and are bringing like-minded advisors together to form a full-service tech-enabled accounting partner for thousands of SMEs. Our team use their incredible expertise alongside intuitive technology to help businesses and entrepreneurs plan better and grow faster.

We’re Gravita: the accountants fuelling ambitious businesses. We’re a top 30 accounting firm working with entrepreneurs and businesses to help them achieve their goals, and make an impact in the world.

We’re growing fast and are bringing like-minded advisors together to form a full-service tech-enabled accounting partner for thousands of SMEs. Our team use their incredible expertise alongside intuitive technology to help businesses and entrepreneurs plan better and grow faster.

Our mission is to become the UK’s leading tech-enabled accounting firm for SMEs. We have ambitious goals and our high-calibre team work hard to achieve them. We are one team with one agenda, working collaboratively in a respectful environment to deliver a great service to our clients. So if you join us, you’ll not only be working on exciting client challenges, but you’ll also be helping us shape the future of accounting .The Role

The Financial Controller is responsible for the preparation of the monthly management accounts, regular tax returns and maintaining strong internal controls and the preparation of the company’s monthly accounts. They will have day to day responsibility for managing the accounting team, credit control, payables teams and will work closely with FP&A and Business Partnering team members.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial Reporting: Preparing and publishing timely monthly financial statements; Responsible for month end reporting timetable and managing month end close process in accordance with the agreed timetable.

• Accounting: Manage all accounting operations including Billing, A/R, A/P, GL, WIP Accounting and Revenue Recognition (based on information prepared by the Business Partner). Preparation of payroll journals for month end and other adhoc tasks e.g. Survey data, Partner Current Account

• Risk Management: Identify potential financial risks and opportunities e.g. fraud, financial misstatements, offering mitigation strategies and internal controls to safeguard the company's financial health. Maintenance of strong financial controls. Approval of payments in line with Gravita Roles and Responsibility Matrix.

• Audit and Taxation: Oversight of preparation (by Group Accountant) of financial statements and all accompanying files in order to support annual audit, liase with audit team on the ground in order to ensure that the audit is completed in a timely and efficient manner. Coordinate and oversee tax compliance and reporting activities (prepared by Group Accountant)

• Transformation: Maintaining and evolving best in class tools and processes across the entire business e.g. AP, billing and collection, expenses automation. Identifying improvements in processes in order to accelerate the reporting timetable and drive efficiency within the team.

• Team Leadership and Development: Supervise and mentor a team of finance professionals, fostering their growth and development. Foster a culture of accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement within the finance department. Ensure team are adequately trained. Scaling day to day activities to the offshore team in India.

Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience

• CIMA, ACCA or ACA Qualified with minimum five years post qualified experience

• Advanced Excel Skills

• Ideally prior experience in a PE environment

• Taking a data driven approach to everything;

• A real aptitude for working with numbers;

• Excellent ability to make informed decisions; and

• Confident communication and presentation skills.

• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines

• MS Business Central and PowerBI experience would be an advantage but not essential.

The Nitty Gritty

• Our standard working week is a 37.5-hour week on a hybrid basis (with up to 50% of your time across the month home based and the other 50% office based)

• Core working hours are 10am - 4pm Monday to Friday

• Flexible working and happy employees are at the top of our list here at Gravita and we have been working hard to support our teams through the fast-paced changes.

• Your development won’t be forgotten, our development support is extraordinary for a firm of our size.

• It's a busy, fast-paced environment here at Gravita. Feel free to check out our social media channels (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Glassdoor).