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Group Financial Controller

NCC Group

Skills

Required

  • control
  • PLC
  • Group financial control
  • financial reporting

Preferred

  • drive simplification and automation
  • treasury
  • IFRS
  • Workday Finance
  • corporate tax
  • cash management

Join NCC Group plc as the Group Financial Controller, a senior finance leader responsible for financial integrity, control, and governance. You will lead Group Finance & Control, Tax, Treasury, and Transactional Finance Services, delivering high-quality internal and external reporting, maintaining a robust control environment, and driving effective transactional finance services. You will work closely with the CFO, senior management, Finance Business Partnering teams, the Audit Committee, and external advisers to simplify, standardize, and automate finance processes.

Lead the Group Finance & Control, Tax, Treasury, and Transactional Finance Services, ensuring financial integrity and compliance with regulations.

UK-listed company experience

About NCC Group

  • Experience of finance transformation, process improvement and ERP-enabled finance environments
  • A strong leader who builds capability, accountability and engagement

Responsibilities

  • Oversee the preparation of consolidated financial statements, financial sections of the Annual Report, and ensure compliance with IFRS and applicable reporting requirements.
  • Drive continuous improvement in finance processes and the operating model, including ongoing optimization of Workday Finance.
  • Good understanding of corporate tax, treasury, cash management and transactional finance operations

Proven leadership and development of high-performing Finance teams

  • Excellent technical accounting knowledge, including IFRS, Group consolidation, external and statutory reporting, and external audit
  • Delivery focused and comfortable in a fast-paced PLC environment
  • Experience leading geographically dispersed and/or shared service Finance teams

Requirements

  • Strong Group financial control experience in a PLC, listed, international or comparably complex organisation
  • The successful candidate will be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent) and will demonstrate:

Workday Financials experience

  • Commercial and pragmatic, balancing robust governance with business needs
  • Technically strong and credible in financial reporting, accounting and control
  • International, multi-entity or multi-currency reporting

Preferred

  • Experience working with senior management, external auditors and, ideally, Audit Committees
  • Improvement oriented, able to challenge existing processes and drive simplification and automation