Rat & Boa

Financial Controller

Rat & Boa

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Middlesbrough • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

Cloud

About the role

  • **The role:**
  • We’re looking for a hands-on, commercially minded Financial Controller to take ownership of the finance function at Rat & Boa, a growing, founder-led fashion brand with big ambitions.
  • **The main elements of the role are:**
  • - Take full ownership of the group finance function across the UK, Netherlands, and US entities, ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely financial management and reporting.
  • - Lead the production of consolidated monthly management accounts, budgets, and rolling forecasts, providing insightful analysis on performance, trends, and key variances.
  • - Manage group cashflow and liquidity, ensuring optimal working capital management, FX risk oversight, and alignment of intercompany balances.
  • - Oversee statutory compliance across multiple jurisdictions, including VAT (UK and Netherlands), GST (US), payroll taxes, and corporate filings.
  • - Coordinate the preparation of VAT, GST, and other indirect tax submissions, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with local regulations.
  • - Build and refine group reporting frameworks and dashboards to deliver clear, real-time visibility of performance by region, channel, and product line.
  • - Develop and maintain robust internal controls and accounting policies, ensuring financial discipline, cost control, and scalability as the group grows.
  • - Partner with department heads and founders to review performance, identify risks and opportunities, and support commercial decision-making across product, marketing, operations, and logistics.
  • - Manage external relationships with accountants, auditors, tax advisors, and banking partners across all territories.
  • - Lead on the preparation of annual statutory accounts and audits for all entities, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and efficient coordination of year-end processes.
  • - Support international expansion and structural planning, including new market entry, entity setup, and transfer pricing considerations.
  • - Continuously improve systems and processes, leveraging technology to automate reporting, enhance data accuracy, and increase efficiency (particularly within Xero and integrated tools).
  • - Oversee and mentor the Finance Assistant, ensuring high standards of accuracy in transactional finance, reconciliations, and supplier payments.
  • - Provide proactive financial insight and recommendations to support business growth, profitability, and long-term strategic planning.

Requirements

  • **We want to hear from you if you can demonstrate…**
  • - Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) with experience as a Financial Controller or Management Accountant.
  • - Proven experience improving cashflow and reporting processes in a small, fast-paced business — ideally in ecommerce, fashion, retail, or consumer goods.
  • - Experience in multi-entity accounting - ideally within EU and US accounting standards
  • - Strong working knowledge of Xero and confidence using cloud-based finance tools.
  • - Hands-on and pragmatic, happy to roll up your sleeves when needed.
Benefits
  • - 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays and an additional 0.5 days on Christmas Eve & New Year's Eve)
  • - Medicash plan
  • - Employee Assistance Programme
  • - Pension Scheme
  • - Enhanced sick pay
  • - Enhanced parental pay

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
financial managementfinancial reportingcashflow managementbudgetingforecastingstatutory complianceinternal controlsmulti-entity accountingdata analysistransactional finance
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingcollaborationstrategic planninganalytical thinkingattention to detailproactive mindsetadaptabilitymentoring
Certifications
ACAACCACIMA