Job Description

Job title: Financial Controller – 6-Month Fixed Term Contract

Division: Operations
Department: Finance and Corporate Services – Finance, Strategy & Reporting

• Salary: London from £79,000 to £123,000 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)
• This role is graded as: Senior Manager - Corporate
• Your external recruitment contact is Raimonda via raimonda.stankute@fca.org.uk
• Your internal recruitment contact is Lauren McHale via Lauren.McHale@fca.org.uk
• Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via social media or email will not be accepted.

About the FCA and team

We regulate financial services firms in the UK, to keep financial markets fair, thriving and effective. By joining us, you’ll play a key part in protecting consumers, driving economic growth and shaping the future of UK finance services.

Operations Finance and Corporate Services look after the finances and working environment to protect our reputation and enable us to meet our objectives. The division focuses primarily on customer service, providing both support and appropriate challenge to the wider business to help ensure we utilise available resources in the most effective, efficient and economical way.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Financial Control team within Finance and Corporate Services. Reporting to the Head of Finance, Strategy & Reporting, the Financial Controller will oversee statutory reporting under UK-adopted IFRS, the external audit process, treasury and tax compliance, while supporting continuous improvement across finance processes and controls.

Role responsibilities

• Oversee and develop the Financial Control team, setting clear objectives, promoting high performance and a culture of continuous improvement and professional development
• Oversee the Accounting Advisory Group, ensuring compliance with, IFRS requirements and statutory reporting obligations.
• Acting as the primary liaison with external auditors completing their planning and interim audit procedures.
• Provide strategic oversight of all tax matters, ensuring full compliance with relevant tax regulations, managing relationships with HMRC and external advisors and promoting tax awareness across the organisation
• Maintain the integrity of the General Ledger and Balance Sheet, ensuring robust financial controls, reconciliations, documentation and accounting processes are in place
• Manage central accounting activities, including fixed assets, pension accounting, balance sheet governance and compliance with IFRS/IAS standards
• Oversight of all treasury activities, including cash flow forecasting, investment management and maintaining banking and treasury relationships
• Ensure finance policies, standards and procedures remain effective, up to date and compliant, supporting strong financial governance across the organisation
• Working collaboratively with other areas in Finance to and wider business stakeholders to support process improvements, deliver insightful analysis, manage ad-hoc projects and support responses to regulatory and Freedom of Information requests
• Support delivery of Finance transformation projects relevant to the team, including system upgrades, working closely with IT Product teams where required.

Skills required

Minimum:

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent) with substantial post-qualification experience (typically 10+ years), including external audit and financial reporting experience
• Extensive technical accounting experience, including IFRS, with the ability to provide trusted advice on complex accounting matters and ensure the integrity of financial statements
• Extensive financial controls and systems knowledge, with experience designing, reviewing and enhancing operational and financial control frameworks, supported by a good understanding of finance technology and ERP systems
• Knowledge of VAT return preparation and broader corporate taxation matters

Essential

• Demonstrated leadership experience overseeing and developing effective finance teams within a complex organisation
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and influence senior leaders, auditors and external partners
• Demonstrable experience delivering continuous improvement and transformation initiatives within a central finance or corporate finance function
• Well-developed organisational and prioritisation skills, with a direct approach and the ability to manage multiple competing priorities while ensuring timely delivery
• Experience of working with Workday or similar cloud-based finance systems
• Knowledge of Partial exemption special method (PESM) VAT

Benefits

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary
• Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection and 24/7 Employee Assistance
• 35 hours of paid volunteering annually
• Hybrid model where employees work a minimum of 40% in the office each month (expectation of 50% for senior leaders). Changing from September to a minimum of 50% in the office each month (expectation of 60% for Directors and Executive Directors)
• A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle
  

For a full list of our benefits and our recruitment process as a whole visit our benefits page

Our values and culture

Our colleagues are the key to our success as a regulator. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture: one that’s free from discrimination and bias, celebrates difference and supports colleagues to deliver at their best. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better regulation.

If you require any adjustments due to a disability or condition, your recruiter is here to help - reach out for tailored support.

We welcome diverse working styles and aim to find flexible solutions that suit both the role and individual needs, including options like part-time and job sharing where applicable.

Disability confident: our hiring approach

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and therefore, people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. In cases of high application volumes, we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role’s key requirements.

Useful information and timelines

Timeline:

• Job advert closes: 11:59pm, Sunday 2nd August 2026
• CV Review/Shortlist: Tuesday 4th August 2026
• Interviews: 1st stage w/c 10th August 2026,
• Interviews: 2nd stage w/c 17th August 2026
• Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role, therefore, please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time.