Job description
Job Overview:
A fantastic opportunity is available for an experienced qualified accountant to join an for an industry leading, high growth organisation. Working alongside a strong team in group finance, this is a brilliant opportunity for someone looking to establish themselves in an financial controller role and gain further exposure to leadership. This role would suit a technically strong qualified Accountant.
Job title: Financial Controller
Salary: £70,000-£80,000
Location: Manchester + Hybrid
Main Duties:
A fantastic opportunity is available for an experienced qualified accountant to join an for an industry leading, high growth organisation. Working alongside a strong team in group finance, this is a brilliant opportunity for someone looking to establish themselves in an financial controller role and gain further exposure to leadership. This role would suit a technically strong qualified Accountant.
Job title: Financial Controller
Salary: £70,000-£80,000
Location: Manchester + Hybrid
Main Duties:
- Ensure the reliability and relevance of Reporting to provide the local Management, General Management and Group with the elements of analysis that are necessary for the control of the Company.
- Responsible for the financial reporting for the business ensuring accurate data, which is fully analysed in line with budget and any ad-hoc requests.
- Audit and financial controls
- Support BU regarding commercial decision making, cost control and strategic planning.
- Working with central finance and shared service centre to ensure transaction processing proceeds smoothly and error levels are reduced and eradicated.
- Work with Country Management on business development and investment plans, budget and annual investment plans.
- Ensuring the application of Group and local policies and procedures in the activities of the business
- Deliver monthly results, reporting on significant deviations from budget
- Deliver monthly report to Committee (results, significant events, deviations, functions progress and new actions to be implemented).
- Prepare and monitor the operating budget, co-ordinating between the different Business Units.
- Supervise and coordinate the processes of budgetary control and monitoring of action plans.
- Monitor the annual investments reviewing process and progress.
- Workforce planning for budget
- Participate in and provide financial guidance in all significant revenue, cost and capex contracts
- Be part of the Leadership Team, supporting and collaborating with functional departmental leaders to deliver key business objectives in volume growth, margin and cost control.
- Supervise and coordinate the process of annual budget preparation
- Monitor month end closure, budget controls and action plans
- Complete the monthly reporting and presentation to the management team
- Participate in the Strategic Plans and investment decisions
- Control the company’s Annual Investment Plan (PAI) (contracts, amounts contracted) and carry out investment profitability studies
- Work with SSC credit control team to analyse customer risk and make the necessary decisions in each case
- Maintain adequate controls throughout business and work with Shared Service Centre to optimise reporting and reconciliation processes
- Support analysis of customer profitability for plant managers, sales team and business development department.
- Work with SSC to ensure co-ordination and continual improvement of transaction processes
- Compliance with tax, labour, accounting regulations ensuring external audit requirements are met and operational balance sheet items reconciled monthly
- Work in conjunction with Country Finance Director particularly where deviations arise.
- Ensure compliance of internal regulations, particularly to satisfy Group Audit requirements
- Supporting role for managing company insurance policies
- Develop and implement training plans for the finance controlling team
- Other duties as reasonably required from time to time
- Qualified Accountant (CIMA/ACA/ACCA)
- 3-5 years’ experience in similar role
- Highly IT literate, particularly Excel and SAP
- Leadership and role modelling
- Strategic thinking
- Ability to work to deadlines
