Location: West Byfleet, Surrey (hybrid)
Hours: 2.5-3 days/week, initial 6 month term with a formal review
Reporting to: Director
Hideaway Garden Rooms is one of the fastest-growing premium garden room and annexe builders in the South East - bespoke projects from £15,000 to £100,000+, currently turning over c.£2m. We've just moved into new commercial premises and are building the finance function to match our ambitions.
We're looking for a hands on Financial Controller to take ownership of our finance function during a genuinely interesting stage: completing a QuickBooks migration, building project-level profitability reporting for the first time and putting real financial control and resilience into a function that has, until now, relied too heavily on one person.
What you'll own
- Month end close and management accounts
- Weekly cash flow reporting to the Directors, on top of monthly management accounts
- Cash flow forecasting, budgeting and forecasting
- Project level profitability - margin by build, tracked through QuickBooks Classes/Projects, not a side spreadsheet
- Completion of the QuickBooks Online migration
- Payroll and pension journals ahead of processing by our external accountants
- Management of a remote bookkeeper
- The relationship with our external accountancy practice (VAT, payroll, pensions, CIS, year-end and corporation)
- Financial controls, including payment authorisation and segregation of duties
What we're looking for
- Qualified or part-qualified accountant with genuine SME or construction-sector experience
- Comfortable being hands on at 2.5-3 days a week - this is a doing role, not a purely advisory one
- Direct experience with job costing or percentage-of-completion revenue recognition
- A confident communicator who will challenge the founders with data, not just agree with them
If you want to build a finance function from a genuinely early, formative stage - with real influence over how it's designed - this is a rare one.
Pay: £45,000.00-£50,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Free parking
- On-site parking
Work Location: Hybrid remote in West Byfleet (Surrey)
