Job Description

Financial Controller, UKEA

Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM BST on Tuesday 22 July 2025. We encourage you to apply early as the position may close sooner if a suitable candidate is found.

About Palladium:

Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 2,100 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.

This Opportunity:

The Financial Controller oversees the management accounting and statutory financial reporting of the UKEA companies, subsidiaries and regionally funded operations. This senior position provides oversight based on deep experience in accounting operations, forecasting, budgeting, reporting, analysis and tax. The Financial Controller reports to the Regional Finance Director and supports the Regional Directors.

Location & Position Details:

The position is based in Palladium's London office, within our United Kingdom, Europe, and Africa (UKEA) region. Please note that applicants must have the right to work in the UK, as visa sponsorship is not available for this role.


Palladium supports a hybrid working model with 3 days in office, 2 days from home.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities:

Lead the production of the management accounts and associated reporting, including assisting the Regional Finance Director with the production of analysis and insight for the business. Lead the UKEA forecasting and budgeting process, working with the Regional Finance Director to establish robust forecast methodologies and deliver great forecasting accuracy. Be responsible for monitoring and understanding working capital balances and movements. Be responsible for monitoring, understanding and challenging the levels of accrued and deferred income / expense. Ensure that tax and other regulatory financial filings are on-time and accurate and play a supporting role in incurred cost reporting. Support Cost Point structure. Lead on all regional statutory reporting and filings, and lead on audits. Be responsible ensuring appropriate and current accounting policies, procedures and processes documentation exists for the UKEA region and that this is consistent with global policies and procedures.
Compliance

Working alongside the respective designated teams, the Financial Controller plays a key role in Ensuring compliance with statutory regulations, GAAP and Global policies. Making recommendations for process and systems improvements to ensure compliance and clean audit opinions. Staying apprised of relevant Government and business regulations that affect the UKEA region and ensuring that the company operates within the proper parameters. Maintaining suitable accounting policies and a comprehensive set of controls designed to mitigate financial risk. All local "in-country" compliance including (but not limited to) corporate filings and tax.

Essential Criteria:

Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or business administration Appropriate professional experience with excellent leadership skills and the ability to pivot between system, process and technical detail to strategy development and solving high-level management issues. Sound knowledge of IFRS, company law and UK GAAP / FRS 102, Tax (VAT, withholding tax, corporation tax) Prior experience includes success in leading the following: timesheets management, International Treasury / foreign exchange, Intercompany accounting, Fixed assets accounting, tax filings and compliance, month end close processes, journals entries, General ledger accounting, bank and balance sheet reconciliations, year-end close processes, and other statutory financial filings. Demonstrated experience making various accounting and financial disciplines work in harmony. Advanced capacity in generating reports for leadership to support management decisions while helping to ensure control over data and transactions under the guidance of the leadership. Excellent delegating and organizational skills. Strong numerical proficiency, first class problem-solving skills and excellent use of logic Strong analytical, planning and financial management skills coupled with the ability to thrive under pressure and balance several competing projects at once. Ability to resolve complex issues, build solid relationships and deliver outcomes. Ability to liaise closely with corporate and regional leadership, senior managers, project teams, other employees and external service providers. Ability to drive and manage change and build virtual / project teams Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Desirable Criteria:

Certified Public Accountant or equivalent (e.g. Chartered Accountant) qualification preferred

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

- Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.


Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made during the recruitment process (due to disability, neurodiversity, or for any other circumstance), please email our team at accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com and we will be in touch to discuss.

Safeguarding

- We define Safeguarding as "the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm". We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.