Financial Controller
2 weeks ago
- 5+ years of overall combined accounting and finance experience.
- Relevant business knowledge and experience in a similar role.
Financial Controller
The main responsibilities of the Financial Controller are managing all finance and accounting operations, ensuring resources are allocated accordingly, reporting deadlines are achieved, and assisting in month-end reporting along with reviewing and approving journals, payments, and invoices.
Assisting with internal and external audit reviews and being part of the Operational Managers team as the Accounts representative.
Reporting to the Finance Director.
£70000 + 20% bonus- + company car scheme + excellent benefits including medical insurance, pension & more18-month fixed term contract with further permanent career opportunities in view.
What you will do:
Oversee the Financial Accounts and Accounting Services teams.
Manage and provide support and guidance
- Responsible for overseeing client transactions in Britain and Ireland, finance and accounting operations.
- Lead, motivate, and develop the Financial Accounts and Accounting Services team.
- Ensuring all colleagues have defined responsibilities, departmental and individual goals, and annual appraisals.
- Provide leadership and guidance to optimise the financial reporting both internally (HQ reporting) and externally (Statutory Accounts).
- Provide leadership and guidance to the accounting services team to drive out efficiencies in the bank, AP & AR processes, ensuring the service delivery to the business is maintained.
- Work collaboratively across functions to improve and ensure efficient business processes.
- Contribute to the company's financial strategy and decision-making process.
- Assist the Finance Director in preparing and presenting reports to senior executives, stakeholders, and board members.
- Additional ad hoc duties as required by the Finance Director.
- Lead, & coordinate the month-end and year-end close process, liaising and building relationships with head office colleagues.
- Guide and support the team ensuring month-end reporting requirements and deadlines to Head Office are adhered to.
- Maintain and monitor the month-end timetable ensuring any delays are understood and support is provided to ensure deadlines are not impacted.
- Ensure all daily banking deadlines are achieved.
- Complete allocated month-end tasks in the agreed timeframe.
- Review and approve journals raised by the team.
- Review figures before submission.
- Work with the Senior Business Controller to support the commentary to the business, Head Office, and region.
- Respond timely to Head Office on any reporting queries and where possible pre-empt queries that may be raised.
- Support the production of the statutory reporting requirements of the businesses by; allocating resources, agreeing on timelines with the external auditors, and delivering before the deadlines.
- Ensure quality control over financial transactions and financial reporting through monthly balance sheet reconciliations and reviews. Ensuring issues are investigated and addressed quickly to maintain the integrity of the accounts.
- Review and approve the daily payments when needed.
- Advise, develop, and document processes for the accounting policies and transactions application, to maintain and strengthen internal controls.
- Review proposed business change documents and highlight any potential impact on the Finance department’s procedures and processes. Supporting the Project Accountant to make recommendations to develop the change most effectively and efficiently.
- Facilitate an effective working relationship between the Finance department and the functional area(s) initiating the project(s).
- Lead & coordinate the internal and external financial quarterly audits, ensuring all areas of review are assigned owners and actioned timely to ensure the successful close of the audit within the agreed deadlines.
- Manage and ensure compliance with local government reporting requirements, tax filings, and deadlines.
- Oversee the submission of tax payments and returns within applicable tax laws, requirements, and deadlines (e.g. Corporation Tax, VAT, excise tax, withholding tax).
- ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified.
- Proven leadership skills and experience.
- Proven working experience as a Financial Controller.
- 5+ years of overall combined accounting and finance experience.
- Relevant business knowledge and experience in a similar role.
- Experience with general ledger functions and the month-end/year-end close process.
- Experience with creating and reporting financial statements and external audits.
- Demonstrate expertise in Excel and finance system D365.
- Effective written/verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrate a keen eye for detail and accuracy.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Efficient, organised and proactive.
- Fluent in English.
General Competencies
Business perspective: Using an understanding of business issues, processes, and outcomes to enhance business performance.
Compliance procedures and systems: Understanding the importance of compliance within the finance industry.
Customer understanding: Demonstrates understanding of customers (internal and external), their commercial offerings, industry, business, motivational drivers, and needs. Understands how Our client can contribute to the optimization of customer profitability.
Information gathering and processing: Locating and collecting data from appropriate sources and analysing it to prepare meaningful and concise reports that summarize the information.
Leadership skills: Demonstrate leadership skills to support and guide the team
Managing People: Managing others to ensure their work contributes to organisational goals. Developing individuals, building teams, resolving conflicts, and applying workplace policies.
Managing resources: Planning, allocating, and mobilizing resources (human, physical, information, and financial resources) to achieve organizational goals.
Problem-solving skills and tight deadlines: Exceptional numerical, analytical, and problem-solving skills and ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
Reporting requirements: Demonstrate an understanding of external reporting requirements.
Systems: Demonstrate an understanding of financial reporting systems, Excel, and Microsoft Word.
Communication: Listening and communicating openly, honestly, and respectfully with different audiences, promoting dialogue and building consensus. Strong interpersonal skills.
Confident in working remotely and dealing with challenging situations: Be able to work independently and proactively with limited supervision. Ensuring a high degree of accuracy on time.
Ensuring accountability: Holding yourself and others to high standards of accountability and creating an infrastructure and transparent culture that supports and measures personal and organizational responsibility and accountability.
Exemplifying integrity: Treating others fairly, honestly, and respectfully, furthering the integrity of the organization and its relationships of trust with the broader community.
Inspiring Others: Energising and inspiring others to strive for excellence and commit to common goals and purposes, creating a sense of self-efficacy, resilience, and persistence in followers.
Leading Change: Recognising the need for change, being open to new ideas and methods, and championing transformational change within the organization and beyond.
Result orientated: Demonstrates the effort, willingness, and ambition to achieve results. Meets objectives and responds proactively to avoid disappointing results.
Team player: Must be a team player who communicates well and is on hand to help and support the team when needed.
Thinking Strategically: Seeing and synthesizing different sides of an issue, examining the full range of options and outcomes, and building intellectual frameworks to guide analysis and action.
Our client has an exciting opportunity for an Financial Controller to join the team.
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