Job Description: Senior Financial Controller
Do you enjoy building automated systems, designing predictive models, and acting as a strategic advisor to leadership teams? Keep reading!
Our client is on a path to triple its revenue over the next three years. To support this growth, they are building a scalable, automated financial infrastructure that can handle increased manufacturing complexity, international packaging compliance, and subsidiary integration without a matching increase in administrative work.
As the Senior Financial Controller, you will own the forward-looking financial agenda. The Finance Manager oversees the historical accounting function, allowing you to focus on strategic planning and the future. This role is ideal for a systems builder who enjoys designing smart processes over performing repetitive manual tasks and finds fulfillment in mentoring finance professionals.
Your Responsibilities & Impact
Your time will be balanced across building infrastructure, managing complex compliance projects, advising leadership, and mentoring the finance team.
Forward-looking Planning & System Building (40%)
- Design and automate financial forecasts, budgets, scenario models, and liquidity tracking.
- Establish financial frameworks for stock-keeping and inventory management to support growing manufacturing operations.
Complex Compliance & Project Execution (25%)
- Lead major compliance initiatives.
- Design and implement an automated system for the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), including Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) reporting, cost management structures, and recyclability tracking ahead of the August 2026 legal deadline.
Strategic Advisory & Leadership Support (25%)
- Serve as the primary financial advisor to the CEO and COO.
- Translate complex financial information into clear, data-driven recommendations that support strategic decision-making.
Mentorship & Team Leadership (10%)
- Mentor the Finance Manager and support their development toward a future CFO track.
- Provide lateral leadership while empowering the team to manage day-to-day accounting operations independently.
Who You Are
- A systems builder who prefers automation over repetitive manual work.
- Highly analytical with a strong focus on identifying root causes through data.
- Forward-thinking, with the ability to anticipate financial risks, opportunities, and liquidity needs.
- Passionate about mentoring and developing others.
- Collaborative, low ego, and comfortable challenging leadership with data-driven insights.
Experience Required
- 8+ years of progressive experience across Cost Accounting, Financial Controlling, and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A).
- 3+ years of experience as a Financial Controller or Finance Manager.
- Proven experience designing and implementing automated financial systems and reporting frameworks.
- Experience leading major compliance or regulatory initiatives with strict deadlines (e.g., packaging tax, international tax, or EPR schemes).
- Strong background in manufacturing finance, including cost accounting, inventory management, and subsidiary integration.
- Experience serving as a trusted advisor to senior leadership while mentoring junior finance professionals.
About Our Client
Our client is a profitable, fast-growing European packaging company making custom-branded takeaway packaging accessible to businesses of all sizes. Since its launch, the company has expanded across multiple European markets by partnering with manufacturers to deliver faster, more cost-effective, and sustainable packaging solutions.
With an award-winning growth trajectory, a fully remote international team, expanding manufacturing operations, and ambitious plans to triple revenue over the next three years, the company is investing in scalable financial infrastructure to support its next phase of growth.
What We Offer
- Full-time remote position (39 hours per week, Monday–Friday, GMT+1 or within two hours of that time zone)
- Competitive salary based on experience
- Six weeks of paid annual leave
- Paid sick leave
- Generous paid parental leave
- Overtime is generally not expected but will be compensated when applicable.