Financial Controller

Role Overview

• Own the month-end close process for the UK, German and Polish entities, including review of journals, management of close deadlines, and collation of schedules and supporting reports — working in close partnership with the Global Accounting Team and the Europe Finance Director.
• Regularly maintain detailed reconciliations of all balance sheet accounts, including intercompany positions, accruals, and prepayments, ensuring completeness and accuracy at each period end.
• Manage the statutory audit processes and lead the preparation of the annual statutory financial statements in accordance with UK GAAP / FRS 102, coordinating with external auditors and functional teams.
• Oversight of AR function and ensuring timely collections and aged debt management.
• Ensure effective internal controls are in place to support compliance with GAAP and applicable regulatory requirements for financial and fiscal reporting.
• Partner with the commercial and operations teams to ensure financial data accurately reflects the economics of the business — including marketplace revenue, marketplace fees, storage costs, and internal operational costs.
• Respond to ad-hoc information requests from internal and external stakeholders; exercise sound judgement in addressing or escalating issues as appropriate.
• Support unit economics analysis and brand-level profitability reporting, by ensuring the integrity of underlying data flowing into Netsuite.
• Relationship with the centralised AP function, ensuring coding accuracy, timely supplier payments, and that the Europe team's needs are well represented.
• Support the Finance Director and work directly with the accounting team to ensure accuracy and consistency across all financial outputs.
• Identify and implement solutions to streamline and accelerate the month-end close cycle, reducing manual effort and improving reliability.
• Support the development of automated and scalable financial processes, working alongside the finance team's data and tooling workstreams, with a focus on improving the control framework and reporting efficiency as the business grows.
• Partner with central
• Support Global Tax teams in corporation tax calculations and liaising with external tax advisors on planning and compliance matters.
• Develop a strong working knowledge of intercompany processes, and how they impact on the European P&Ls.
• Review lease accounting and ensure appropriate local GAAP adjustments are recorded for UK GAAP / FRS 102 and German HGB purposes, working closely with Global Accounting.

Requirements

• Qualified accountant (ACA or ACCA), ideally Big-4 trained and with post-qualification experience in industry a financial control or similar role.
• Prior exposure to ecommerce, marketplace, or consumer goods businesses preferred — comfort with high transaction volumes and revenue recognition.
• Experience preparing or managing statutory accounts under UK GAAP / FRS 102; German HGB and IFRS familiarity an advantage.
• Experience working with external auditors and managing year-end audit processes.
• Exposure to multi-entity or multi-jurisdictional structures.
• High attention to detail with a structured, methodical approach to financial control.
• Strong analytical capability — comfortable interrogating large datasets and working with finance systems and BI tools.
• Confident communicator, able to translate financial information for non-finance stakeholders and manage relationships with external advisors and auditors.
• Self-starter with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborative team player who can also work independently and take ownership of complex deliverables.
• Curiosity about data, tooling, and process improvement — an interest in how finance teams leverage technology is a genuine advantage in this role.

Benefits

• 28 days Holiday (increasing to 32 days with each year of service)
• Competitive salary
• Hybrid working (3 days a week in the office Tues-Thurs)
• Private Medical Insurance
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave and pay
• Nursery Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Regular company socials