Management’s go-to specialist for accounting, reporting, and financial procedures

Every function in your business needs supervision as well as leadership – and Finance is no exception. Like any other discipline, Finance performs best when its quality is actively overseen, maintained, and, where necessary, improved.

This is the value delivered at every stage of business growth by the Financial Controller - a management-level specialist relied on extensively by the business to ensure Finance is not only kept in good order, but in good shape to achieve the strategic objectives expected of it.

But what makes an EFM Financial Controller a winning choice for your business?

At EFM, our outsourced Financial Controllers have acquired and honed their Finance and financial management skills in commerce and industry, rather than in practice. This means that instead of working at one remove from your business, they work as an intrinsic part.

Their business experience gives them a keen eye for the details around the processes that are critical to preventing financial loss: accurately recording transactions and data, implementing controls to bring scrutiny to financial activity, and ensuring processes are in place to deliver clarity and compliance.

And as with all EFM’s pay-as-you-go financial management professionals, our Financial Controllers work only the hours you need from them, saving your business a significant full-time salary cost.

An EFM Financial Controller is the vital lynchpin who translates the strategic direction and business plans developed by the Finance Director (FD) into accurate, reliable, reportable financial process management and supervision.

As a management-level executive, an EFM Financial Controller earns the confidence of the Finance Director and finance teams, playing a crucial role in supervising and validating financial decisions.

With extensive business experience and diverse expertise, our Financial Controllers provide advantages to your business that others may not offer, allowing it to:

• Get ahead of financial deadlines (monthly management accounts, annual audits, etc.)
• Analyse and understand performance at all levels – products, services, customers, departments, ad employees, cash flow, and key ratios and control factors
• Develop financial monitoring procedures and financial modelling; set key performance indicators (KPIs); improve systems and controls where necessary
• Operate more efficiently, for example by minimising working capital requirements
• Strengthen other disciplines and workflows (e.g. company secretary, project management) by giving them specialist Finance advice
• Improve reporting and management of bank covenants, credit applications, work on grants and other sources of external finance, claims, property issues, insurance, and employee benefit packages

At EFM, we pride ourselves on being more than ‘just’ accountants, focusing on our role as growth advisors too – and our Financial Controllers, with their business background and their hand-in-glove collaboration with the FD, are the practical enablers of the strategies that drive that growth.

And because they work as part of your team, not as an external practice, your goals are their goals – and you can be sure they won’t take their eye off the ball.

Experienced, skilled, and hands-on, an EFM Financial Controller is the cost-effective specialist behind the day-to-day achievement of everything Finance in your business is capable of.

Bring an EFM Financial Controller on board

Get control of Finance – contact us to ask about bringing an EFM Financial Controller into your organisation today.