Citadel Source are pleased to be working with an established and growing organisation in Bristol to recruit a Finance Administrator into their finance team.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated individual at the early stages of their finance career to gain hands‑on experience across the purchase ledger function. The role offers a strong balance of invoice processing, supplier account management, reconciliations, payment support and learning opportunities within a friendly and supportive finance team.

You’ll play a key role in ensuring supplier invoices are processed accurately, supplier accounts are well maintained, and the wider finance function continues to operate effectively. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is keen to learn, develop their skills and build a long‑term career in finance.

About you

You are a motivated and organised individual with a positive attitude and a genuine desire to learn. You may have some previous experience in purchase ledger or finance administration, but you could equally be at the very start of your finance career.

You have strong attention to detail, good communication skills and a methodical approach to work. You’re comfortable managing competing priorities and deadlines, and you’re keen to develop your knowledge of accounting processes, VAT, reconciliations and finance systems.

Study support may be considered for the right candidate who demonstrates commitment to their professional development and wishes to pursue a relevant finance qualification such as AAT.

As a Finance Administrator, your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Process and code supplier invoices and credit notes accurately, ensuring correct authorisation and VAT treatment
• Maintain and update supplier accounts, set up new suppliers, and support supplier statement reconciliations
• Investigate and resolve invoice discrepancies, supplier queries and outstanding payment items
• Monitor invoice due dates, support payment runs and ensure suppliers are paid within agreed terms
• Build knowledge of VAT, coding, accounting principles and finance systems, developing wider understanding of purchase ledger processes

What the client is looking for

• Positive attitude, strong willingness to learn and develop
• Good attention to detail, numeracy and organisational skills
• Clear, professional communication with colleagues and suppliers
• Ability to prioritise, meet deadlines and work effectively in a team
• Basic Excel/Microsoft Office skills, with willingness to improve
• Some exposure to purchase ledger or finance admin, or interest in studying AAT

What the client has to offer

• £25,500
• Supportive and collaborative finance team
• Genuine opportunity for professional development and progression
• Exposure to wider finance processes and projects
• Study support for AAT or other relevant qualifications (subject to approval)
• A role where you can build strong foundations for a long‑term finance career

Sound like a good fit?

If you are interested in this position, please reach out to Harry Harvey at Citadel Source at harry@citadelsource.com

Citadel Source are pleased to be working with an established professional services firm in Bristol who are seeking an experienced Senior Credit Controller to join their finance team. This is an excellent opportunity to step into a supervisory role within a friendly, collaborative environment and play a key part in strengthening credit control processes during a period of continued growth.

The Role

Working closely with colleagues across finance and the wider business, you will take responsibility for managing a portfolio of complex and aged debt, maintaining strong customer relationships, and ensuring the smooth management of outstanding accounts. You’ll also support and guide team members, helping to develop capability within the credit control function.

As a Senior Credit Controller, your role will include, but not be limited to:

• Manage and recover a portfolio of high‑value, complex and aged debt

• Proactively pursue outstanding invoices via phone, email and written communication

• Develop tailored collection strategies and negotiate payment arrangements

• Provide support and guidance to credit control colleagues, ensuring targets are met

• Build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders and clients

• Maintain accurate debtor records and ensure all collection activity is fully documented

• Investigate and resolve invoice, billing and payment queries

• Monitor high‑risk accounts and advise on potential bad debt exposure

• Provide regular updates on debtor performance and collection activity

• Identify opportunities to improve credit control processes and reduce debtor days

• Support system and process improvements aligned with cash collection targets

• Occasional travel to other UK offices

About You

You are an experienced credit control professional with strong knowledge of debt recovery processes and a confident, proactive approach. You’ll be comfortable managing complex debtor portfolios and communicating effectively with senior stakeholders, clients and internal teams.

Requirements:

• Significant experience in credit control, ideally within professional services

• Proven success managing complex debtor portfolios and aged debt recovery

• Previous supervisory experience or readiness to step into a supervisory role

• Strong negotiation, influencing and relationship‑building skills

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to adapt to different audiences

• Strong IT skills and confidence working with finance systems

• Professional, organised and results‑focused approach

What’s On Offer

• Competitive salary

• Hybrid working (2 days per week in the Bristol office)

• Supportive, inclusive working environment

• Opportunity to join a growing organisation with strong progression potential

• Chance to contribute to process improvements and credit control development

• Excellent benefits package including private medical insurance, life insurance and health cash plan

Interested?

If you’re an experienced credit control professional looking for a role where you can take ownership, develop your leadership skills and make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you.

Please contact Harry Harvey - harry@citadelsource.com at Citadel Source.

Citadel Source is have been retained by Brothers Drinks to recruit a Head of Finance. This is a key leadership appointment for a qualified accountant seeking a broad and influential role within a complex, fast-moving business environment.

Reporting directly to the CFO, you will lead the finance function, driving financial control, performance reporting, commercial insight and continuous improvement across the organisation.

With significant exposure to the executive leadership team and board, this position offers the opportunity to shape finance operations, influence business performance and support a growing organisation through its next phase of development and transformation.

A bit about Brothers……

Brothers Drinks is a fast-paced, growth-oriented beverage manufacturer headquartered in Shepton Mallet, Somerset. With a heritage rooted in innovation and a strong retail presence, the company produces a diverse portfolio of fruit ciders and soft drinks for major supermarkets, hospitality chains, and export markets. Known for its agile operations and entrepreneurial culture, Brothers combines modern manufacturing capability with a sharp commercial edge -making it an exciting environment for professionals who thrive on delivering results in a dynamic FMCG setting. 

The Role

As Head of Finance, you will take ownership of the day-to-day finance operation whilst partnering with stakeholders across the business to enhance financial performance, strengthen controls and improve reporting capability.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Owning month-end and year-end reporting processes, ensuring the delivery of accurate, timely and insightful financial information.
• Maintaining robust financial controls, governance frameworks and balance sheet integrity across the organisation.
• Partnering with senior operational stakeholders to drive profitability, challenge assumptions and identify performance improvement opportunities.
• Supporting cashflow management, working capital optimisation and investment appraisal activities.
• Driving improvements across finance systems, reporting, automation and data utilisation to enhance efficiency and scalability.
• Collaborating with Finance Business Partners and functional leaders to improve financial understanding across the wider organisation.
• Managing relationships with auditors, advisers and other external stakeholders.
• Supporting strategic projects, business change initiatives and organisational growth plans as required.

About You

You will be an engaging and commercially minded finance leader, capable of balancing strong technical accounting expertise with strategic thinking and operational delivery.

The successful candidate will possess:

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification
• Proven experience operating within a senior finance leadership role
• A proactive and solutions-focused mindset, with a passion for driving positive change and continuous improvement
• The ability to operate effectively both strategically and hands-on when required

What's on Offer

• Competitive salary
• Bonus of 20%
• Car allowance
• Performance-related bonus opportunity
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Hybrid working arrangement
• Significant exposure to the CFO, Board and executive leadership team
• Opportunity to lead and develop a high-performing finance function
• A visible leadership role within a growing organisation undergoing continued evolution and transformation
• Excellent long-term career development opportunities

 Please note, Citadel Source have been retained on an exclusive basis for the search of the Head of Finance. All third party applications will be forwarded to Citadel Source for review. 

Citadel Source are pleased to be working exclusively with an established, PE-backed organisation in Bristol that is going through a significant period of growth, to recruit an experienced Management / Financial Accountant into their finance team.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced finance professional to join a growing business at an exciting stage of its development. Reporting to the Finance Manager, you’ll take ownership of core financial operations, manage and develop two finance team members, and play a key role in improving processes and connecting finance with the wider business.

About you

You are an experienced finance professional with strong practical accounting knowledge and ideally AAT Level 4 qualified or part-qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA. You’ll have good experience across transactional and financial accounting, with a strong understanding of reconciliations, month-end processes and financial controls. 

As a Management / Financial Accountant, your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Manage and develop two Finance Assistants across sales and purchase ledger
• Take ownership of the sales and purchase ledger close process and month-end deadlines
• Ensure accurate financial data to support reporting and decision-making
• Review and improve finance processes, including order-to-invoice and purchase-to-pay
• Complete balance sheet reconciliations covering fixed assets, accruals, prepayments, bank accounts, payroll and intercompany transactions
• Support fixed asset management and group revaluations
• Support VAT returns across multiple jurisdictions and US sales tax reporting
• Oversee customer and internal finance queries, acting as a point of escalation
• Complete daily bank and payment partner reconciliations
• Support year-end close and audit preparation
• Contribute to ad-hoc finance projects, including potential accounting system implementation

What the client is looking for

• Strong practical finance and accounting experience
• AAT Level 4 qualified or part-qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA
• Experience across financial accounting, reconciliations and transactional finance
• Experience managing or developing others
• Strong attention to detail and organisational skills
• Good Excel skills, including SUMIFs, Pivot tables and VLOOKUPs
• Proactive, collaborative and focused on continuous improvement

What the client has to offer

• Annual salary of £35,000 - £45,000
• Hybrid working - 2 days per week in the Bristol office
• Opportunity to join a PE-backed business experiencing significant growth
• Manage and develop a small finance team
• Broad exposure across financial and management accounting
• Opportunity to contribute to finance transformation and system implementation projects
• Support towards professional qualifications including CIMA/ACCA

Interested?

If you're an experienced finance professional looking for a role where you can take greater ownership, develop your leadership skills and broaden your exposure across financial and management accounting, we'd love to hear from you.
Please reach out to Harry Harvey - harry@citadelsource.com at Citadel Source.

Citadel Source is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Assistant Management Accountant to join our client based in the Avonmouth area.

About you

You will be a proactive and organised individual with excellent attention to detail and a strong work ethic. You will be AAT qualified and ideally working towards CIMA or ACCA, with strong Excel skills and good communication abilities. You will have previous experience in a similar finance role, with knowledge of month-end processes, reconciliations, journals, accruals, and prepayments. Experience with SAGE, payroll or accounts would be advantageous.

The role

The Assistant Management Accountant will support the wider finance team with accurate and timely financial reporting, working closely with both finance and non-finance colleagues.

As an Assistant Management Accountant, your role will include, but not be limited to:

• Assist with journals, accruals, prepayments and adjustments
• Support the preparation of monthly management accounts
• Assist with forecasts and annual budgets
• Analyse variances, costs and performance
• Produce reports and KPIs
• Complete key account reconciliations
• Support Sales and Purchase Ledger
• Assist with expenses, credit cards and treasury management
• Support audits and finance projects
• Contribute to process improvements and financial accuracy
• Business partner with managers across the business

What the client has to offer

• Salary £35,000 - £ 40,000
• Company bonus scheme
• Flexible and hybrid working
• Training and study support

Sound like a good fit?

For more information on this exciting opportunity, please contact Anna Wozniak - anna@citadelsource.com at Citadel Source.

Citadel Source is delighted to partner a long-standing client to support the recruitment of their new Finance Business Partner.

The client

Our client is a growing organisation, taking on increasingly complex, high‑value work. To support their expansion, they are developing a central finance capability that will enhance oversight, bring greater consistency and deliver clearer, more meaningful financial insight as the business evolves. It’s a collaborative, fast‑paced environment, well suited to someone who enjoys influencing how financial decisions are shaped and improving the way a business understands its performance.

The role

This role will sit within a newly established group‑level finance function focused on improving financial governance, reporting quality and forward‑looking analysis. You’ll begin by embedding yourself within the UK finance team to understand systems, processes and what “good” looks like, before broadening your remit to support activity across the rest of the business. The position requires someone who can build strong relationships, challenge assumptions and help teams think more clearly about financial impact. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders, providing insight that supports planning, performance management and decision‑making.

About you

You’ll be a qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA or ACCA) with experience gained in either practice or industry, ideally through audit or a finance partnering role. You take a structured, process‑driven approach, with a strong focus on controls, governance and identifying both risks and opportunities. You’re comfortable asking difficult questions and have the confidence to challenge constructively, always looking for ways to improve accuracy, visibility and accountability. Building strong relationships comes naturally to you, as does working with people across different teams and backgrounds. 

As the Finance Business Partner, your role will include, but will not be limited to:

• Producing clear, insight‑driven financial reporting and analysis
• Supporting teams with forecasting, variance analysis and cash‑flow considerations
• Reviewing risks and key financial indicators
• Strengthening financial governance and helping embed consistent practices
• Working with commercial stakeholders to support on pricing and contract terms
• Supporting assessments of new opportunities to ensure they are realistic and financially viable
• Challenging assumptions and encouraging more robust financial thinking
• Contributing to reporting improvements and wider process development
• Supporting the appropriate adoption and evolution of finance processes and systems
• Helping to drive consistency and best practice across the organisation

What the client has to offer

• Salary of up to £55,000 DOE
• Car Allowance
• Flexible hybrid working with 1-2 days on-site in the Bath office
• Comprehensive benefits including medical cover, pension and wellbeing support
• 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• Support for professional development

Sound like a good fit?

If you are interested in discussing this role, please reach out to Grant Chalmers‑Stevens – Grant@citadelsource.com at Citadel Source.

Citadel Source are delighted to be supporting a large international Engineering organisation operating within a complex multi-entity environment that is seeking a technically strong and commercially aware Group Financial Controller. Reporting to senior finance leadership, this role will play a key part in leading financial operations during a period of organisational change and continued growth. 

This position offers the opportunity to take ownership of group financial reporting, consolidation, governance, and financial control activities within a dynamic and fast-paced business environment. The successful candidate will lead a qualified finance team whilst driving financial accuracy, process improvement, and strong control frameworks across the organisation. 

As a Group Financial Controller, your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: 

Group Reporting & Consolidation 

• Lead the monthly group reporting and consolidation process across multiple entities

• Coordinate and review intercompany reconciliations

• Ensure reporting deadlines are achieved, and accounting standards are consistently applied

• Maintain oversight of group balance sheet reconciliations and financial controls

• Support the year-end audit process and manage external auditor relationships

• Ensure consistency of accounting treatment and reporting across the wider business 

• Support maintenance and development of group reporting systems and financial data integrity 

• Work closely with FP&A and wider finance teams on reporting, forecasting, and cash flow activities

Financial Control & Compliance 

• Support preparation of statutory accounts and associated regulatory filings

• Assist with ongoing compliance and governance requirements across the organisation 

• Maintain and develop accounting policies, controls, and governance frameworks

• Ensure robust month-end close processes, including journals, accruals, prepayments, and reconciliations 

• Review and strengthen internal financial controls and reporting accuracy

Leadership & Stakeholder Management 

• Manage, support, and develop members of the finance function, including qualified and part-qualified staff

• Assist with workload planning, performance management, and team development

• Prepare financial reporting packs and analysis for senior stakeholders

• Respond to finance-related queries across the business

Projects & Continuous Improvement

• Support finance transformation and process improvement initiatives

• Drive operational efficiencies and improvements across finance processes and reporting 

• Undertake ad hoc financial analysis, reporting, and project-based work as required

About you  

The successful candidate will be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with strong technical accounting knowledge and experience operating within a complex, multi-entity environment. 

Candidates will ideally demonstrate:

• Strong group reporting and consolidation experience 

• Experience within financial control, governance, or group finance functions

• Previous experience managing or mentoring finance professionals

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• High attention to detail with the ability to work to tight deadlines

• Strong systems capability, including advanced Excel skills and exposure to finance/reporting systems

• A proactive and solutions-focused approach within a changing environment

What the client has to offer 

• Competitive salary package dependent on experience 

• Hybrid/flexible working arrangements 

• Generous holiday allowance 

• Pension scheme 

• Additional benefits  

Sound like a good fit? 
For more information on this exciting opportunity, please contact Citadel Source or reach out directly to Oliver Price at oliver@citadelsource.com. 

Citadel Source are supporting a well-established brand in the Cheltenham area in the appointment of a Junior Management Accountant.

About you

You will be a hands-on, driven individual with a strong work ethic, taking pride in achieving both your own and team goals. You will be committed, enthusiastic, and an excellent communicator, able to work effectively as part of a team and manage your own workload. You will be AAT-qualified or CIMA/ACCA part-qualified, with strong Excel skills and previous experience supporting month end. You will have excellent attention to detail, a good understanding of accounting principles, and the ability to analyse financial information and identify variances.

The role

The Junior Management Accountant will work closely with the Finance Manager and wider finance team, supporting the delivery of accurate and timely financial information. You will be responsible for supporting the month-end financial close, managing a portfolio of balance sheet reconciliations, preparing weekly updates for senior leadership, and providing financial analysis.

As a Junior Management Accountant, your role will include, but not be limited to:

• Assist with monthly management accounts and financial reporting
• Prepare journals, accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations
• Support budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis
• Maintain accurate financial records and investigate discrepancies
• Assist with month-end and year-end processes
• Provide financial analysis and reporting to management
• Assist with improving financial processes and controls

What the client offers

• A salary of £35,000 to £45,000
• Generous staff discount
• Study support
• Parking on site 

Sound like a good fit?

For more information on this exciting opportunity, please contact Anna Wozniak - anna@citadelsource.com at Citadel Source.