Financial Controller
Permanent
Job Description
- Provide leadership, management and guidance to the finance team
- Maintain all aspects of the company's financial and accounting functions, identify areas that require improvement and implement any necessary changes
- To rigorously ensure the company complies with financial, regulatory and Group obligations
- To champion the implementation of IT enhancements to improve the efficiency and performance of the finance function
- Devising strategies to ensure company internal controls and processes remain fit for purpose, including communication of critical information
- To deliver high quality timely and relevant financial information to support the SMT and individual departments with decision making
- Support the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) in meeting the company financial objectives and deputizing when required
- Managing the finance team of 9 in a manner that supports the company's Business Plan
- Overseeing the preparation of monthly financial accounts and reports
- Assisting the CFO and SMT on long-term financial business planning and financial prediction modelling Management of credit control team
- Ensuring robust financial systems and processes are in place
- Keep abreast of any new legal and financial regulations
- Ensuring the chart of accounts remains relevant for business needs
- Managing the company's daily cash flow, analyzing the company's financial weaknesses and strengths, whilst proposing corrective actions
- Maintaining an orderly accounting filing system ensuring compliance with statutory obligations
- Collaborating with Finance Business Partnering Team to enhance and improve management reporting, forecasting and preparation of annual budgets
- Streamlining and automating financial processes to ensure better efficiency
- Interfacing with managers to ensure that the monthly closing procedures across the company are executed correctly
- Completion and submission of Group returns within relevant agreed deadlines
- Ownership of Government Returns reporting
- Oversee and prepare statutory financial accounts
- To deputies for the CFO and Finance Manager when they are absent
- Key contribution in evaluating potential acquisition opportunities
- Contributing to decisions regarding the company's financial strategy
- Ad hoc tasks as delegated by the CFO
- Committed to excellence and will always ensure that effective actions are taken where any financial issues are discovered
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA with several years of experience in a similar role
- Excellent business acumen and good understanding of current financial issues
- Up to date with technological advances and understanding accounting software
- Understanding business processes in a manufacturing environment would be advantageous
- Experience of using Sage X3 or SAP software would be highly desirable
- Strong system skills and knowledge of MS packages especially Power BI, Excel, and PowerPoint
- A sound understanding of the month end process
- Strong leadership skills with a collaborative way of working
- Excellent communicator, with both internal and external colleagues at all levels
- Accurate with excellent attention to detail
- Driven self-starter, with the ability to work on their own initiative and to deadlines
- Ability to analyze and make recommendations, alongside the capacity to drive through key business changes
Reference no: 91519