Job Description

This role will support in delivering a step change in financial and management processes across the group with a focus on reviewing and creating policies and processes to ensure they are updated and future proofed. Properly documented and communicated processes speed up decision making for employees and helps them follow regulations within a common operational framework.
Where gaps in policies and processes are identified the incumbent will collaborate with the commercial, operations and finance functions to understand and document the end-to-end process and agree protocols with process owners. Once agreed the policies will need to be reviewed with and approved by key business stakeholders and rolled out across the business.
The role is accountable for ensuring common process across the various legal entities, working with company managers and key stakeholders to deliver a common operational framework
We need a person who can

• Understand and document end to end processes
• Develop and document new policies
• Assess data capture and data ownership
• Identify business wide solutions
• Assign responsibility and process ownership to the correct job roles
• Ensure segregation of duty and balances and checks to ensure staff are empowered
• Document work instructions for users of Sage X3

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Identify and development of business processes
• Ensure all documentation is up to date and efficient
• Improve communication with the business on core processes
• Ensure effective, efficient systems.
• Develop and report performance metrics
• Skilled at designing and implementing processes and policies that balance operational agility and financial control in a fast-growing international environment
• Ability to present information in a clear and concise manner and use this to influence decision making
• Investigating at a granular level to ensure understanding of the drivers of the business
• To be able to clearly define, document and communicate business processes
• Qualified Accountant (ICAEW/CIMA/ACCA or similar
• An accounting and/or internal audit background
• International group accounting experience.
• Office 365
• Sage X3 / 1000
• The ability to manage individual workload.
• Plan/set deadlines whilst working to achieve them
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and evaluative skills
• Commercially aware
• High attention to detail/accuracy
• Strong communication skills
• Forward thinking/planning
• Able to challenge the status quo