Sewell Wallis is delighted to be partnering with a PE-backed business in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, to recruit a Financial Controller. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a high-growth, dynamic organisation with a clear pathway to Finance Director within 2-3 years.Reporting to the Finance Director, you''ll lead the day-to-day finance function, managing and developing a team of 12, while ensuring strong financial controls, smooth operations, and effective planning across BAU activity. This Financial Controller role offers valuable exposure to a PE environment (experience beneficial but not essential), alongside the chance to drive system improvements, process enhancements, and automation as the business scales. If you''re a proactive people leader looking for your next step with genuine progression, I''d love to hear from you. What will you be doing?Managing a team of 12, you''ll need to be a strong and proactive people manager who enjoys developing people, you''ll be overseeing BAU, ensuring effective workload planning for the team.You''ll have full ownership of the monthly close process, ensuring timely, accurate and consistent management accounts, overseeing balance sheet reconciliations, and financial controls.Act as a senior finance partner to department heads, supporting budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning.Prepare high quality financial commentary and analysis for the Finance Director, CFO, and wider leadership team.Lead and support finance led system up