Financial Controller
Location: Eton,Berkshire Contract: Full-time Salary: £70,000 - £75,000
About Us
Glenholme is a specialist healthcare provider supporting adults with learning disabilities, autism, and complex needs across 22 services nationwide. With over 700 staff and more than two decades of growth, we are a values-led organisation in an active phase of expansion — filling capacity, opening new services, and developing new sites. Growing the right services, in the right places, for the people who need them is central to our mission.
The Role
This is an opportunity to join a fast-paced, multi-site business undergoing continued growth and transformation. Working closely with senior stakeholders across Finance and Operations, you'll take ownership of financial control, statutory reporting, governance, and team leadership while supporting commercial decision-making across the business.
Reporting to the CFO, you will play a key role in ensuring the integrity of financial reporting whilst driving continuous improvement across processes, controls, and systems.
This is a visible position offering significant exposure to senior leadership and the opportunity to influence both operational and strategic decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead all financial control activities across the business
- Own monthly balance sheet reviews, reconciliations and financial reporting processes
- Ensure timely and accurate month-end, and year-end close activities
- Prepare consolidated management reporting including appropriate finance sections of the Board pack
- Prepare all relevant reporting including statutory reports, reporting to the PE investors, the bank and other external reporting requirements (such as VAT returns etc)
- Run the external audit process
- Drive continuous improvement across financial controls, governance and reporting processes
- Support budgeting, forecasting and cash flow planning activities
- Partner with operational and commercial teams to provide financial insight and challenge
- Manage and develop a small finance team, based overseas, creating a high-performance culture
- Act as a key contact for auditors, tax advisors and external stakeholders
- Ad hoc activities as requested by the CFO
What We're Looking For
- ACA or ACCA qualification
- Strong financial control and statutory reporting experience
- Background within the healthcare or other multi-site environments would be beneficial
- Experience managing and developing finance teams
- Excellent communication and influencing skills
- Ability to operate effectively within a fast-moving, changing environment
- Strong attention to detail alongside a commercial mindset
- A desire to embrace AI and improve process and procedures
- Ideally you would have experience of Sage 200
What We Offer
- A high-autonomy, strategic role with direct access to the CEO and Board.
- The opportunity to shape and own Glenholme's growth agenda during an active expansion phase.
- A values-led culture in a specialist sector where the work genuinely matters.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
Safeguarding
Glenholme is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check and references.
Job Code: GHETO1
