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Fresh Food, Happy Dogs. We believe dogs deserve the healthiest, most natural and tastiest meals - with none of the nasties. That’s why we make FRESHly prepared food, cooked just like you would at home and delivered direct to our customers in perfect portions. As a B-Corp certified company, you’re joining a sustainable business that genuinely cares about our people, our products and our impact on the planet. Our goal is simple: to help dogs live healthier, happier, and longer lives, while leaving humans smiling after every interaction. We’ve come a long way since our co-founders (Kev & Dave), hand delivered the very first Butternut Box. Today, we feed hundreds of thousands of hungry dogs across the UK and Europe - but we won’t stop until we’re feeding dogs everywhere. To get there, we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition to come and work for us.  As we continue our rapid international expansion, we are seeking a proactive, technically brilliant, and transformation-minded  Group Financial Controller to join our high-performing Finance team. Reporting directly to the Group Head of Finance, this is a senior management role with significant operational remit. You will have overall responsibility for the integrity of our international financial reporting, robust governance, and the evolution of our financial operations to ensure a best-in-class control environment that allows us to scale sustainably. The role would suit an ambitious, forward-thinking leader who combines strong  technical capability with a passion for process automation. You are comfortable commanding a fast-paced environment and eager to help design a scalable finance function that has a tangible, positive impact on our growth. Key Responsibilities Financial Control & Regulatory Governance Statutory & External Reporting: Own the end-to-end preparation and delivery of statutory accounting across the Group, ensuring absolute compliance with UK GAAP/FRS 102 and relevant international frameworks.  Relationship Management: Act as the primary contact and senior liaison for external auditors, tax authorities, and relevant external advisory relationships, driving a smooth, efficient annual audit process.  Balance Sheet Governance: Maintain rigorous balance sheet hygiene, taking ownership of key financial judgments, estimates, and comprehensive periodic reconciliations.  Control Environment: Champion a best-in-class control framework by designing, embedding, and continuously improving robust internal controls across day-to-day and periodic processes.  Compliance: Stay ahead of the curve with regulatory changes to ensure the business is able to keep pace with requirements as it scales (e.g. e-invoicing, payment practices, ONS reporting, etc.). Work closely with the Head of Tax to ensure flawless execution of key filings and support on the implementation of Group tax strategy. Systems Thinking & Finance Transformation Technology & Productivity: Act as a core systems thinker for the function. Proactively identify and execute opportunities to drive massive productivity gains through ERP optimisation, automation, and advanced financial tools.  Data Integrity: Enforce master data governance and chart of accounts discipline to enhance data integrity and support real-time, self-service analytics across a scaling business.  AI-Enabled Function: Actively spearhead the continuous evolution of our financial reporting towards an AI-enabled environment, eliminating manual workflows.  Operational Finance & "Lights Out" AP Transactional Leadership: Oversee the day-to-day transactional finance team, ensuring rigorous governance over payment runs and general ledger management.  "Lights Out" AP Vision: Take strategic oversight of the Accounts Payable function, actively architecting and driving forward a vision tow