Job title: Financial Controller (path to Finance Director)
Company: Seymour John
Workplace type: Remote, UK-based, with occasional team days in Merseyside
Location: United Kingdom
Employment type: Full-time, permanent
Financial Controller – fast-growing NHS health-tech business (path to Finance Director)
Remote (UK) with occasional team days in Merseyside | Permanent | Competitive salary + bonus + benefits
Seymour John is recruiting a Financial Controller for a fast-growing healthcare analytics and AI software business that works with NHS trusts and health systems overseas. The founders have over 30 years’ NHS finance experience and have built and sold successful businesses before. The company is now winning larger contracts, including national NHS England programmes, and expanding internationally.
The role
You’ll own the whole of finance in a small, ambitious business, reporting directly to the Managing Director. Today the role is hands-on. As the company grows, it becomes a strategic leadership role, with a clear path to Finance Director for the right person.
You will:
- Run the month-end close and deliver management accounts within three working days.
- Own statutory accounts, VAT, PAYE, corporation tax and R&D tax relief, working with external advisers.
- Build a rolling 12–18 month cash flow forecast, budgets and three-statement models.
- Make sure revenue from software licences, consultancy and multi-year contracts is recognised correctly.
- Manage billing and credit control against NHS contracts, purchase orders and milestones.
- Report profitability by product, contract and customer, and support pricing and bid decisions.
- Design proportionate controls and automate finance using cloud accounting and AI tools.
- Prepare the business for investment, due diligence and international expansion.
- Build a finance team as the business scales.
About you
- A fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CIPFA) with at least 5 years’ post-qualification experience.
- You’ve run the full month-end and year-end without supervision, and prepared statutory accounts.
- You’ve built or improved finance processes and controls in a small or growing business.
- You have experience of software or contract revenue recognition.
- You know UK GAAP (FRS 102), UK tax and cloud accounting (e.g. Xero).
- You can turn numbers into clear advice for non-finance founders.
- You’re hands-on, comfortable with change, and ambitious to become a Finance Director.
- NHS, scale-up, investor reporting, EMI or international experience is a bonus, not a requirement.
Interested? Apply here or contact Will Griffiths at Seymour John on 07818 693596 or will@seymourjohn.com.