Job Description

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about understanding what makes the business tick, making a real impact on driving the finance function forward to deliver what is required by our private equity shareholders.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious finance all-rounder: someone with excellent financial accounting skills, but also commercial awareness and influencing skills who can identify and implement improvements and can lead more junior members of the team.

What you'll be doing:

• Responsibility for month end reporting , including profit & loss, balance sheet and cash flow to Executive team and shareholders
• Ensuring correct accounting on judgment areas including oversight of balance sheet reconciliations each month end
• Working closely with the People team and payroll provider, responsibility for review of payroll calculations
• Working closely with stakeholders in the business for forecast team costs
• Responsibility for detailed liquidity analysis, including cash flow forecasting
• Oversight of daily and weekly cash management, supporting the Accounts Payable Manager 
• Robust analysis of working capital movements compared to forecast and closing cash positions
• Management of bank permissions and bank authorities
• Responsibility for preparation of the yearend consolidated financial statements
• Oversight of the preparation of the subsidiary financial statements by other team members
• Management of the external audit ensuring minimal audit adjustments
• Oversight of audit deliverables to ensure these are delivered on time and high quality
• Delegating for the financial controller in variety of activities
• Supporting ad hoc projects as they arise

Benefits
We offer everyone healthcare, life insurance and a pension plan. Because having a break is important for your physical and mental wellbeing, our holiday allowance is 25 days (plus bank holidays) AND your entitlement increases an extra day for every 2 years you spend with us.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• You’ll need to be a qualified accountant with post qualified experience
• You will have demonstrable IFRS technical capability
• You’ll have experience with consolidation accounting
• You’ll have line management experience
• You’ll have experience in audit management
• You’ll be highly numerate with a strong attention to detail
• You’ll have strong experience of stakeholder management, comfortable to challenge as necessary
• You’ll be a brilliant communicator with the ability to explain complex financial concepts to non-financial people
• You’ll pride yourself on developing and maintaining good working relationships with colleagues, and have the credibility with peers and senior managers
• You’ll have some demonstrable experience as a business partner
• You’ll have excellent problem solving skills and the ability to think on your feet
• You’ll have a strong commercial awareness and ability to see the “big picture”
• Previous experience working in a private equity based business
• Previous experience in financial statement preparation Previous experience with Netsuite
• Oh, and you’ll enjoy working in fast-paced environment - things can move very quickly around here!