Assistant Financial Controller

| £, - £, + % | ( - )

If you're a couple of years post-qualified and ready to step into a senior finance position then look no further.

You'll join a £55m turnover e-commerce business as Assistant Financial Controller, working directly under the current FC with a clear, mapped-out path to take over the role in 2027. This isn't a vague "progression opportunity" line in a job spec - there's a vacancy, a date, and a plan.

In the meantime, you'll get genuine oversight of a transactional finance function, ownership of end-to-end management accounts and month-end reporting, and real commercial exposure - margin analysis, forecasting, budgets, stock costing - the kind of work that actually prepares you to run a finance function rather than just report on one.

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• Technically strong with a solid grip on management accounting fundamentals.
• Commercially minded - genuinely interested in the "why" behind the numbers.
• Comfortable taking ownership of a team, not just a set of numbers.
• Ambitious, but patient enough to learn the role properly before stepping into it.

This is a growing business that's serious about succession planning rather than just filling a seat. You'll be given the time and access to actually learn the FC role before you're expected to do it.

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• End-to-end manage...