A qualified accountant with complex consolidations is required for a Financial Controller role in Oxfordshire. Your new company We are delighted to be exclusively partnering with a well-known client in Oxfordshire in their search for a talented and technically astute Financial Controller with extensive Group consolidation experience.Your new role The Financial Controller reports to the Finance Director and has four direct reports (two qualified financial accountants, Finance Manager and Payroll Manager) and eight indirect reports. You will assume responsibility for all transactional accounting and external reporting and run the year-end audit, managing the relationship with the auditors and working closely with the business to ensure audit readiness is maintained. A strong control environment is essential, and you will ensure that best practice is followed, particularly ensuring compliance with statutory and non-statutory financial reporting, corporate tax and VAT, including driving tax efficiencies. As a support to business partnering and budgeting, you will play a key role in the annual budget process and periodic reforecasts and provide commentary on the monthly management accounts.What you''ll need to succeed The successful candidate will be a qualified accountant with f inance team management, experience of preparing UK GAAP financial statements including complex consolidations and working knowledge of the main taxes (CT, VAT, CGT). Advanced Excel, strong interpersonal