Senior Manager Financial Controller

Day Rate: £600 Inside IR35

Location: 3 days per week in Leeds office

Contract Length: 6-9 Month Contract, Immediate Start date

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Financial Controller to provide senior-level technical accounting expertise and delivery leadership for the preparation, review, audit and completion of the 2026/27 Annual Report and Accounts .

This is a hands-on senior role combining deep IFRS expertise, statutory reporting and audit management . You will coordinate the completion of the financial statements and associated disclosures, manage engagement with external auditors, and ensure successful delivery against a challenging and accelerated year-end timetable.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end Annual Report and Accounts plan, including milestones, responsibilities, dependencies, risks, reviews and escalation points.
• Coordinate the production of interim and year-end financial statements and supporting notes to audit standard.
• Perform detailed reviews of financial statements, notes and disclosures, ensuring they are accurate, complete, internally consistent and compliant with applicable reporting requirements.
• Provide expert IFRS technical accounting advice , reviewing and challenging significant and complex accounting judgements, estimates and treatments.
• Review technical accounting papers, ensuring conclusions are robust, appropriately evidenced, clearly documented and capable of withstanding external audit scrutiny.
• Manage day-to-day engagement with external auditors , coordinating audit evidence and responses, monitoring outstanding matters and supporting the timely resolution of technical issues.
• Coordinate inputs across Finance and the wider organisation to ensure financial and narrative reporting is aligned, clear and coherent.
• Identify and implement practical improvements to the efficiency, quality and control of the year-end reporting and audit process.
• Support knowledge transfer and development across the wider finance team.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent ) with significant post-qualification experience.
• Excellent and current IFRS technical knowledge , with substantial experience applying accounting standards to complex and judgemental transactions.
• Strong ability to critically review accounting judgements and technical papers, form an independent view and confidently defend conclusions.
• Significant statutory and financial reporting experience , including the preparation or audit of complex Annual Reports and Accounts.
• Experience managing a complex external audit and building effective relationships with senior stakeholders and auditors.
• Strong programme and delivery management capability, with the ability to maintain quality and momentum against demanding deadlines.
• Financial services experience is essential.
• Exposure to lending, investments, valuations, impairment, government-backed finance or public sector reporting would be advantageous.

Candidate Profile

This opportunity would suit an experienced Senior Manager/Financial Reporting Lead/Technical Accounting specialist from a professional services firm, financial institution or similarly complex regulated organisation.

The successful candidate will combine deep IFRS and corporate reporting expertise with hands-on delivery capability , and will be comfortable operating at senior stakeholder level while remaining closely involved in the detail.