Financial Controller

Do you want to work with innovators, entrepreneurs, investors, ambition? Are you ready to balance the demands of multiple businesses? Do you want to work in a team where every colleague is focused on delivering a brilliant service to their clients? Are you happy to take responsibility, ownership, leadership? Are you a great accountant and fun to work with? If you can honestly answer yes to all of these, we might just have the job you're looking for.

About us

We work with amazing clients. Our clients are fighting cancer, protecting our streets, innovating in tech, building brilliant products, providing charitable support. They’re technologists, consultants, engineers, entrepreneurs, doctors, designers, retailers. Most of all, they’re ambitious.

Our role, whether in Finance, HR or Payroll, is to help them achieve those ambitions. To help them to grow and succeed. We might provide their full finance, HR and payroll functions, we might just help them when they need extra support, we might deliver a combination of strategic and operational services. We could be working on a merger, acquisition or divestiture, on managing and expanding a UK or international presence, on funding or recruiting for growth or making sure their day-to-day processes run smoothly. We might be running payroll for one employee, or for 500, recruiting one person a month or 20. Managing a pre-revenue research budget, or sales in the millions.
Isosceles is proud to be a part of the Dains Group of Companies:
Established in 1926, Dains is an independent firm of chartered accountants and business advisers specialising in advising growing SME businesses. Dains Group of Companies currently employs over 650 staff across the Group.

About the role

Right now, we’re looking for a qualified accountant to join us as a Financial Controller. You’ll be technically strong, naturally analytical and a confident communicator. You’ll play a key role across a portfolio of clients, so you’ll need to be professional, influential and credible. As a senior professional, you’ll lead trainee and junior accountants across virtual teams to ensure your clients receive a cost-effective, high quality, timely and accurate accounting service, so you’ll be able to co-ordinate, develop and grow your team members. As an ambitious accountant, you’ll see this as your next step towards Finance Director.

Exactly what you’ll do on a day to day basis will be influenced by your clients, but typical responsibilities include:

• Develop and maintain excellent working relations with clients and their external partners.
• Provide sound pragmatic, commercial and professional financial information, advice and support directly to senior client stakeholders.
• Provide and review monthly management accounts, ensuring they are accurate, commercially informative and professionally presented.
• Manage the budget process.
• Prepare profit and cash-flow forecasts.
• Ownership of client deliverable timeframe.
• Line management including supporting graduates through their learning and development.
• Manage the compliance processes including VAT, Corporation tax and PAYE.
• Validation of balance sheet.
• Manage the production of statutory accounts.
• Oversee/ support audits.
• Manage the process for tax compliance and advice, liaising with tax advisers as necessary.
• Oversee payroll delivery, which may also be provided by Isosceles.
• Support system implementations
• Support the business development team on sales proposals and onboarding new clients.
• Monitor and ensure client profitability, satisfaction and account development.

About you

• Fully qualified.
• Post qualification commercial experience, ideally with some exposure to technology or a similar industry.
• Highly numerate and analytical.
• Excellent systems knowledge and capability, including Excel.
• Experience in preparing statutory accounts.
• Comfortable with financial reporting and regulatory requirements.
• Able to make sound, commercial and workable decisions, act with integrity, consistency and clarity.
• Credible, relatable, professional.
• Some experience of managing and coaching a team.
• Comfortable working at pace and to conflicting deadlines.
• Driver. Able to travel independently to client sites as required.

We offer

• Competitive salary
• Life assurance
• Benefits portal
• Supportive colleagues
• Brilliant clients