flagstone - Financial Controller
Requirements
• ACA or ACCA qualified, with solid post-qualified experience running month-end, balance sheet, and financial controls • Strong technical accounting knowledge and the pace to deliver to tight deadlines • Experience in a complex environment with good controls discipline, as well as in a smaller, fast-growing business • Experience with a modern cloud ERP system, with Workday Financials a significant advantage • A sharp eye for detail and good commercial awareness, spotting when numbers and contracts differ and following it through • Strong organisation, with the ability to manage competing priorities and adjust quickly • Clear, direct communication that builds trusted relationships across teams, and the ability to explain financial information simply to non-finance colleagues • An empathetic, approachable style, helping other teams get things right rather than just flagging what’s wrong • Resilience through month-end, audit, and shifting priorities, and the confidence to challenge constructively, including at senior level • Ownership of outcomes, sound judgement on when to act and when to escalate, and a drive to keep finding better ways of working • Direct-to-consumer experience is helpful but not essential • How we reward you: • At Flagstone, the benefits extend beyond false gifts like “fruit and snacks”. Instead, we invest in your health, wealth, and professional development. Here’s a selection of our benefits: • Hybrid working - Spend at least 1 day a week with your team in our collaborative London office • Competitive bonus scheme - designed to reward and recognise high performance • Flexible benefits budget - a pot to fund meaningful benefits for you, whether it's hormone or fertility testing, cancer screening, neuro-diversity coaching or something that matters for you. • A range of salary sacrifice options to help you make tax efficient savings on electric cars, nursery schemes, home and tech goods. • Working Abroad - Flagstone employees can work remotely from an approved list of locations for up to 90 days a year • Mental wellbeing support – Access therapy and mental health sessions through Spill • Learning and development – £1,000 personal development budget to help you grow in your role. • Private health care - Enjoy all the benefits AXA has to offer, including reduced gym memberships and medical history disregarded • Medical cash plan - To help you with the costs of dental and optical expenses • Life insurance and Income Protection- four times your annual salary for peace of mind • Matched pension contributions up to 5% • 25 days holiday - plus bank holidays, well-being days and volunteering days • Enhanced Parental Leave – enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay. • All are welcome.
Responsibilities
• You’ll run Flagstone’s day-to-day core finance operations, making sure our numbers are accurate, controlled, and on time. Reporting to the Finance Director, you’ll own the month-end close, the balance sheet, and day-to-day financial control, while our FP&A team owns planning and forecasting. As the Finance Director’s right hand, you’ll run the detail so they can focus on supporting the CFO, the Board, and commercial decisions. It’s a hands-on role that will grow in scope and complexity as Flagstone scales. • This will include: • Running the month-end close end to end and delivering accurate, timely management accounts • Keeping a clean, fully supported balance sheet, with reconciliations, accruals, prepayments, and journals in order • Making sure direct-to-consumer and business revenue is recorded accurately, with commercial terms in contracts correctly reflected in revenue and cash • Managing daily cash and liquidity monitoring, so the Finance Director always has a clear view of our position • Owning financial controls that fit our scale and regulatory environment, including our obligations as an Authorised Payment Institution • Preparing for the annual statutory audit, and delivering VAT returns, tax compliance, Companies House filings, and HMRC reporting • Making sure monthly payroll and benefits are processed accurately, supported by clear standard operating procedures • Working closely with teams across the business, including Product and Engineering on software capitalisation, Compliance, People, Legal, Sales, Data, and Transaction Operations • Deputising for the Finance Director and supporting the team during peak periods • Using automation and AI to shorten the close, reduce manual work, and help build a technology-enabled finance function
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