Financial Controller
Finance, Banking & Legal · Banking & Investments · Corporate Finance · Financial Analysis · Audit & Assurance
In short
Responsibilities
- Coordinate month-end work routines and prepare assigned journals, accruals, and allocations.
- Review accounting outputs, resolve exceptions, and maintain balance sheet quality through investigation and documented resolution.
- Own and coordinate operational reconciliation completion, review, and evidence retention.
- Prepare and coordinate assigned VAT returns, reconciliations, and support evidence.
- Coordinate PAYE payment preparation, reconciliations, and compliance checks.
- Coordinate audit activities, manage the audit request tracker, and collect supporting documents.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and improve financial processes and controls.
- Provide evidence-based assurance on statutory, compliance, and reporting obligations.
Requirements
- Recognised professional accountancy qualification.
- Significant hands-on financial accounting or financial control experience.
- Demonstrable ownership of closing tasks, reconciliations, and balance sheet review.
- Practical experience of relevant UK VAT, PAYE, and payroll accounting processes.
- Experience of audit coordination.
- Strong understanding of accounting integrity.
- Strong analytical skills and proficiency in spreadsheets.
- Ability to coordinate colleagues.
- Clear communication, sound judgement, and disciplined deadline management.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and implement process improvements.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to work effectively with shared service organisations and cross-functional teams.
- A continuous improvement mindset with a proactive approach.
- Commercial awareness and a focus on cost control, efficiency, and value creation.
- Already hold or have the ability to gain Security Clearance.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience working closely with Accounting Services in Sweden.
- Experience in challenging existing ways of working and driving greater efficiency and effectiveness.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work for a leading defence company.
- Career growth opportunities.
- Competitive salary and benefits package (implied).
Skills
About Saab
As a leading defence and security company, we offer solutions that range from the depths of the oceans to high in the sky, on land and in cyberspace, to keep people and society safe. Empowered by our 22,000 talented people, we constantly push the boundaries of technology to create a safer, more sustainable and more equitable world. We design, manufacture and maintain advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. We are headquartered in Sweden and have major operations all over the world and are part of the domestic defence capability of several…
Company
SaabJob Posted
4 days ago
Expires
in 3 weeks
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
On Site
Experience Level
Mid-Senior
Locations
Fareham, United Kingdom
Qualification
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