About our client:

With a heritage spanning more than four decades, this organisation has built an outstanding reputation within their specialist sector.

Operating in a highly specialised environment, the business combines deep technical expertise with an entrepreneurial approach, developing tailored solutions for complex projects across sectors including offshore energy, renewables, research and subsea operations.

Following a period of continued success and investment, the business is now entering an exciting new chapter of growth. This represents an excellent opportunity for an ambitious finance professional to join at a pivotal point in the company's journey and play a key role in shaping its future.

The role:

Reporting directly to the Managing Director and working closely with the senior leadership team, the Financial Controller will take ownership of the company's finance function, providing both strong financial control and valuable commercial insight.

The successful individual will become a trusted business partner, helping leaders understand performance, supporting strategic decisions and contributing to the ongoing development of the organisation.

Working within a small and highly experienced team, you will have genuine visibility across the business, gaining exposure to operational activities, commercial discussions, tender processes and future investment decisions.

For someone who enjoys variety, autonomy and being close to decision-making, this role offers a rare opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the day-to-day management of the finance function, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Manage and support a small finance team, encouraging high standards and continuous improvement.
• Prepare monthly management information, providing insight into financial performance across the business.
• Lead annual budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Support cash flow management and provide financial analysis to assist commercial decision-making.
• Work closely with the leadership team on business planning, investment decisions and funding requirements.
• Support tendering and commercial activities by providing financial information and analysis.
• Ensure appropriate financial controls, processes and reporting frameworks are maintained.

About you:

You will be an experienced finance professional who enjoys working in a hands-on environment where your contribution is visible and valued.

You may already be operating as a Financial Controller, Finance Manager or senior management accountant looking for a broader role, with the ambition and ability to become a key commercial partner within a growing organisation.

You will be comfortable working independently, communicating financial information clearly and building strong relationships with colleagues outside of finance.

Experience within a smaller business environment would be highly beneficial, as would exposure to multi-currency operations, cash flow management or project-based organisations.

Most importantly, you will be commercially curious, highly reliable and motivated by the opportunity to work closely with senior leaders and influence business performance.

Reasons to consider this opportunity:

• Join a financially strong, privately owned organisation with a 45-year track record of success.
• Work directly with the Managing Director and senior leadership team.
• Enjoy genuine commercial exposure beyond traditional finance responsibilities.
• Become part of a close-knit team with exceptional levels of staff retention.
• Play a key role in the next phase of business growth and investment.
• Work within a unique industry where every project brings new challenges.

If you are interested in learning more about this opportunity, please contact Andrew Ferguson of Vero Recruitment for a confidential discussion. Email: andrew@verorecruitment.com

Who is our client:

McKilligan Financial is a modern, rural family business accountancy practice based between Banff and Keith in Aberdeenshire, founded in 2020 by Elaine McKilligan and now trusted by over 500 clients ranging from sole traders and farming families through to partnerships and limited companies across sectors including agriculture, motor trade, construction, forestry, beauty, equipment hire and property.

This is not a traditional, transactional accountancy firm. The team are made up of people with real, lived experience of rural and small business life, and they pride themselves on being straight-talking, highly approachable and genuinely invested in the long-term success of their clients’ businesses. Their belief is simple: business owners should never feel in the dark about their tax position, and should always have clear, practical and proactive advice they can actually use.

At McKilligan Financial, compliance work such as accounts and tax returns is just the starting point. The real value comes from the ongoing advice, the conversations, the planning, and the support that helps clients grow, protect and better understand their wealth and business decisions over time.

The role:

As Private Client Tax Manager, you will play a central role in shaping and delivering the firm’s private client tax offering, working closely with Client Managers and the wider team to ensure clients receive clear, practical and proactive advice tailored to their personal and business circumstances.

This is a hands-on, advisory-led role where you will help clients understand not just what they owe, but why, and how they can structure their affairs more effectively so they pay the right amount of tax. You will be equally comfortable reviewing technical work, contributing to advisory projects, and having direct, jargon-free conversations with clients who value clarity over complexity.

You will also play an important internal role within the team, acting as a go-to technical specialist in private client tax matters while helping to develop the capability and confidence of others around you.

Key responsibilities:

Your work will span a broad mix of advisory and compliance support, including close collaboration with Client Managers to identify planning opportunities, review self-assessment tax returns, and deliver tailored advice across income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax matters.

You will support clients with a wide range of personal tax and planning needs, including agricultural and rural business structures, property and asset planning, Scottish partnerships, LBTT considerations, succession planning, and more complex advisory work such as incorporation of farming partnerships and wider restructuring projects.

Alongside this, you will manage a small portfolio of tax return-only clients, ensuring a consistently high level of service, accuracy and responsiveness, while also contributing to estates and executry-related matters where required and supporting wider corporate and business tax discussions when relevant.

A key part of the role will be communication, ensuring that complex technical issues are translated into straightforward, relatable advice that clients can understand and act on with confidence. You will also contribute to shaping how private client tax services evolve across the firm, bringing ideas, insight and a proactive mindset to continuous improvement.

About you:

You will be professionally qualified and bring strong practical experience in private client tax, with particular confidence in income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax planning, alongside experience reviewing self-assessment tax returns to a high standard.

You will ideally have exposure to agricultural clients, rural businesses, property-related matters and Scottish partnerships, with a good understanding of LBTT and wider private client tax considerations. Experience of corporation tax or restructuring work would also be beneficial, particularly where it supports broader planning discussions.

Just as important as technical expertise is your ability to communicate clearly, build trust quickly and work collaboratively across a close-knit team where personality, approachability and attitude matter as much as qualifications. You will be someone who enjoys being part of a grounded, values-led environment where egos are left at the door and everyone is willing to roll up their sleeves.

Why McKilligan Financial:

This is a business built on genuine relationships, rural understanding and a very human approach to accountancy and tax. The culture is informal but highly professional, supportive but ambitious, and rooted in values that are consistently lived rather than simply stated.

The firm offers a competitive salary, pension, death in service cover, 36-hour working week, and 5.6 weeks’ holiday (inclusive). In addition, the team regularly benefits from additional time off when targets are met, alongside a culture that actively supports flexibility, development and wellbeing, with regular social events, small gestures of appreciation and a strong sense of team connection.

This is a rare opportunity to join a growing, values-led firm at a genuinely exciting stage of its journey, where your expertise will be valued, your voice will be heard, and your work will have a direct impact on clients and the future direction of the business.

To find out more, in confidence, please speak with Andrew Ferguson of Vero Recruitment: andrew@verorecruitment.com

About our client:

Our client is a highly respected, international organisation with a long-standing reputation for delivering critical services and solutions to customers across complex operating environments. With decades of industry experience, they are recognised for their commitment to safety, operational excellence, innovation, and building strong partnerships with their customers.

As the business continues to evolve, they are focused on strengthening their finance function, improving commercial insight, and supporting operational teams to make informed business decisions. This is an excellent opportunity to join a collaborative finance team within an organisation that values continuous improvement, professional development, and delivering real impact.

The role:

Reporting to the Finance Manager, the Senior Accountant will play a key role within the Finance Team, providing financial support and insight to specific operational areas of the business.

This is a broad and commercially focused role, combining management accounting, financial analysis, business partnering, and process improvement. The successful candidate will work closely with operational leaders to improve financial performance, strengthen reporting, and support effective decision-making across the organisation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Preparing accurate and timely management accounts, forecasts, budgets, and financial analysis for operational business areas
• Providing commercial insight through review of performance against budget and forecast
• Working closely with Operations Managers to understand business drivers, improve financial understanding, and support decision-making
• Managing and controlling purchase orders, business expenses, and working capital processes
• Reviewing, reconciling, and reporting revenue streams to ensure accurate and timely invoicing
• Preparing customer profitability analysis and supporting commercial activities including tenders and pricing reviews
• Maintaining robust balance sheet reconciliations and supporting audit requirements
• Identifying opportunities to improve processes, reporting, and financial controls
• Supporting wider finance initiatives and contributing to the development of a high-performing finance team

Who we’re looking for:

This role will suit a qualified and/or experienced accountant who enjoys working closely with the wider business and using finance to drive improvement. 

The successful candidate will be a confident communicator, comfortable partnering with operational teams, and able to translate financial information into meaningful business insight. Strong accounting skills, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to manage deadlines are essential.

What’s on offer:

This is an excellent opportunity to join a globally recognised organisation on a 12-month fixed term contract, gaining valuable commercial exposure within a varied and operationally focused finance role.

You’ll work alongside an experienced finance team, build strong relationships across the business, and have the opportunity to make a tangible contribution through improved reporting, processes, and financial performance. Our client is known for their flexible, collaborative culture. 

To find out more, please contact Andrew Ferguson at Vero Recruitment on andrew@verorecruitment.com, or apply in confidence using the link below.

Who is our client:

McKilligan Financial is a modern, rural family business accountancy practice based between Banff and Keith in Aberdeenshire, founded in 2020 by Elaine McKilligan and now trusted by over 500 clients ranging from sole traders and farming families through to partnerships and limited companies across sectors including agriculture, motor trade, construction, forestry, beauty, equipment hire and property.

This is not a traditional, transactional accountancy firm. The team are made up of people with real, lived experience of rural and small business life, and they pride themselves on being straight-talking, highly approachable and genuinely invested in the long-term success of their clients’ businesses. Their belief is simple: business owners should never feel in the dark about their tax position, and should always have clear, practical and proactive advice they can actually use.

At McKilligan Financial, compliance work such as accounts and tax returns is just the starting point. The real value comes from the ongoing advice, the conversations, the planning, and the support that helps clients grow, protect and better understand their wealth and business decisions over time.

The role:

As Senior Client Manager, you will take ownership of a portfolio of clients, ensuring the delivery of a consistently high-quality, proactive service that helps them make informed decisions and achieve the best outcomes for their business.

This is a senior, client-facing role that combines technical strength with commercial judgement and relationship building. You will act as a trusted adviser, supporting clients with practical, relevant advice while also identifying opportunities to improve their position through proactive tax planning and sound business structuring.

You will also play a key leadership role within the firm, supporting and developing colleagues, contributing to continuous improvement across systems and processes, and helping to shape a consistently strong client experience. This is a role for someone who enjoys responsibility, enjoys working closely with clients, and takes pride in delivering advice that genuinely makes a difference.

Key responsibilities:

You will lead the delivery of service to your own portfolio of clients, ensuring they receive a high standard of support, communication and advice at all times. You will act as a key point of contact, building trusted, long-term relationships and becoming a genuine adviser to your clients rather than simply a service provider.

A core part of the role will be proactive tax planning, including reviewing projected profits, calculating tax liabilities and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and structure. You will be confident in researching technical matters and translating them into clear, practical advice that clients can understand and act upon.

You will support clients with structuring transactions in a tax-efficient and commercially sensible way, and review and finalise tax returns, ensuring accuracy while also considering the wider planning opportunities available in each case.

Working closely with clients and their wider advisers, you will help deliver a joined-up, proactive approach to their financial and business affairs.

Alongside client work, you will take responsibility for supporting and developing team members through effective line management, feedback, coaching and day-to-day guidance, helping others to perform at their best.

You will work closely with the leadership team to help improve systems, processes and service delivery across the firm, contributing ideas and helping to continuously enhance both the client experience and internal working environment.

You will also use proposal tools to prepare fee quotes and engagement letters, ensuring scope, responsibilities and risk are clearly defined, and will liaise with clients and third parties to obtain the information required to deliver work efficiently.

An understanding of cloud accounting systems, particularly Xero, will be important in helping you relate to clients’ day-to-day business operations and challenges.

About you:

You will have strong experience managing a portfolio of clients within an accountancy or tax-focused environment, with solid technical knowledge across tax compliance and planning, and the ability to apply that knowledge in a practical, commercially aware way.

You will be confident reviewing work to a high standard, exercising sound judgement, and taking ownership of complex client matters. Experience in supporting, developing and line managing others will be important, as this role carries leadership responsibility within the team.

Strong interpersonal skills are essential. You will be someone who builds trust quickly, communicates clearly and enjoys working closely with both clients and colleagues in a collaborative, down-to-earth environment.

An understanding of the agricultural sector would be highly advantageous, given the client base, although a genuine interest in learning and developing expertise in this area is just as important.

Above all, you will be proactive, organised and commercially focused, with a genuine desire to deliver value, build relationships and contribute to a growing, values-led business.

Why McKilligan Financial:

This is a business built on genuine relationships, rural understanding and a very human approach to accountancy and tax. The culture is informal but highly professional, supportive but ambitious, and rooted in values that are consistently lived rather than simply stated.

The firm offers a competitive salary, pension, death in service cover, 36-hour working week, and 5.6 weeks’ holiday (inclusive). In addition, the team regularly benefits from additional time off when targets are met, alongside a culture that actively supports flexibility, development and wellbeing, with regular social events, small gestures of appreciation and a strong sense of team connection.

This is a rare opportunity to join a growing, values-led firm at a genuinely exciting stage of its journey, where your expertise will be valued, your leadership will matter, and your work will have a direct impact on clients, colleagues and the future of the business.

To find out more, in confidence, please speak with Andrew Ferguson of Vero Recruitment: andrew@verorecruitment.com

About our client:

Our client is one of the world's leading providers of engineering, maintenance and industrial services, supporting customers across the energy, process, manufacturing and infrastructure sectors. With operations spanning multiple international markets, the business has built an enviable reputation for delivering complex engineering solutions safely, efficiently and to the highest quality standards.

The organisation is continuing to invest heavily in its future, with ambitious growth plans supported by the global energy transition, major infrastructure investment and an increasing demand for outsourced engineering services. Finance plays a critical role within the business, acting as a genuine commercial partner to operational leadership and helping drive performance across a large, project-based organisation.

An opportunity has now arisen for an experienced Financial Controller to join the senior finance team, taking responsibility for the financial performance of a significant operational business unit while leading an established team and partnering closely with senior operational and commercial stakeholders.

The role:

Reporting to the Vice President of Finance, you will be responsible for providing financial leadership across a major operational business unit. Acting as a trusted business partner to operational and commercial leadership, you will help drive profitability, improve financial performance and provide the insight required to support strategic decision-making.

This is a highly commercial role operating within a fast-paced project environment. Alongside leading an experienced finance team, you will work closely with colleagues across Operations, Commercial, Procurement and Shared Services, ensuring robust financial reporting while influencing decisions that improve project performance, margins and cash generation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and developing an established finance team, including Finance Business Partners and Project Controllers
• Producing timely monthly management accounts, financial reporting and performance analysis
• Leading the annual budgeting process together with monthly forecasting and long-range planning
• Partnering with operational leadership to improve business performance, profitability and financial accountability
• Monitoring project performance, contract profitability, revenue recognition and cost-to-complete forecasts
• Supporting commercial decisions through financial analysis, business cases, pricing and tender evaluations
• Driving improvements in working capital, cash flow and operational financial performance
• Maintaining strong financial controls, governance and compliance with corporate accounting policies
• Supporting continuous improvement initiatives, process enhancements and systems development across the finance function

Who we're looking for:

We're ideally looking for a professionally qualified accountant (CA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with previous experience in a commercially focused finance leadership role.

You'll ideally have developed your career within energy, engineering, industrial services, or another project-based environment where finance plays a central role in supporting operational performance.

You'll possess excellent analytical and commercial skills, together with the confidence to influence and challenge senior stakeholders. Previous experience of budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and business partnering within a complex operational environment will be essential.

You'll be an effective people leader with the ability to develop high-performing teams, while remaining hands-on when required. Experience of ERP systems, together with strong Excel skills and exposure to Power BI or similar reporting tools would be advantageous.

What's on offer:

This is an outstanding opportunity to join a globally recognised organisation at an exciting stage of its continued growth. You'll enjoy a genuinely commercial leadership role with significant visibility across the business, working alongside experienced operational leaders and contributing directly to the financial success of a major business unit.

Alongside a highly competitive salary, the business offers an annual bonus, private medical insurance, an excellent pension, hybrid working and a comprehensive benefits package, together with genuine long-term career progression within an international organisation.

To find out more, please contact Andrew Ferguson at Vero Recruitment on andrew@verorecruitment.com, or apply in confidence using the link below.

Who is our client?

Our client is a well-established independent energy business operating critical assets across the UK.

Following continued investment and growth, this is an exciting time to join the business. The organisation is entering its next phase of development, creating an excellent opportunity for an ambitious finance professional to join a high-performing team and gain exposure to a broad range of strategic and commercial activities.

With an experienced leadership team, a clear growth strategy and strong financial backing, this is a rare opportunity to join a business where finance is highly valued and plays a key role in shaping commercial decision-making.

The role

Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, the Management Accountant will play an important role within the finance function, supporting high-quality financial reporting, commercial analysis, financial planning and governance activities.

This is a broad, commercially focused position offering significant exposure across the finance function. The successful candidate will work closely with senior stakeholders, supporting business decision-making, improving processes and contributing to strategic initiatives as the organisation continues to evolve.

The role would suit an ambitious qualified accountant looking to move beyond traditional management accounting responsibilities and develop towards a future finance leadership position.

Key responsibilities include:

• Preparation of monthly management accounts, including variance analysis, cash flow reporting and insightful commentary for senior management.
• Supporting month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Managing relationships with outsourced finance providers to ensure the effective delivery of finance activities.
• Supporting budgeting, forecasting and reforecasting processes, working closely with budget holders across the business.
• Providing financial analysis and decision support to senior leadership.
• Supporting shareholder, lender and investor reporting requirements.
• Coordinating external audit activities and supporting statutory reporting requirements.
• Supporting treasury activities, including cash flow forecasting and financing arrangements.
• Identifying opportunities to improve financial processes, controls and reporting capabilities.

Who are we looking for?

You will be a qualified accountant (CA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent), ideally with experience gained within professional practice or a commercial finance environment. Suits applicants from newly qualified level.

Equally important will be your ability to communicate effectively, build relationships and provide commercial insight beyond the numbers.

The successful candidate will be proactive and comfortable operating within a dynamic environment where they can take ownership, influence outcomes and make a genuine impact.

Experience within the energy sector, capital-intensive industries, or a growing organisation would be advantageous, although the key requirement is the ambition and capability to develop into a broader commercial finance role.

What's on offer?

This is an outstanding opportunity to join a successful, growing business at an exciting stage of its development. You will gain exposure to strategic finance activities, work closely with an experienced leadership team and play an important role in supporting the future direction of the organisation.

Alongside an industry leading salary and bonus opportunity, our client offers an excellent benefits package including a generous employer pension contribution, private medical insurance, life assurance and hybrid working.

To find out more, please contact Andrew Ferguson at Vero Recruitment at andrew@verorecruitment.com, or apply in confidence using the link below.