Financial Controller

4 weeks ago


Blackburn, United Kingdom Simpson Judge Ltd Full time

Financial Controller (6 month FTC)
Location - Blackburn
Salary - £75,000
Simpson Judge are working with a well-established retail business based in Blackburn, who have an opportunity for a Financial Controller in a 6 month fixed term contract.
Duties include:

- Actively participate in driving forward best practice and to provide support and encouragement to all members of the Transactions Shared Services team
- Work in close partnership with the following stakeholders:

- The Finance team to ensure accurate, timely delivery of financial accounting and reporting within a robust and best practise controls environment
- The Group CFO, Group Finance and Group Commercial Finance teams, to keep them informed and support the Group teams with any ad-hoc requests. To support knowledge, information sharing, consistent good practice and joint commitment to the resolution of accountingissues across the Group
- The Transactions Shared Services teams to ensure strong financial control across centralised AP, AR, Banking and Master Maintenance functions. Pro-actively engage with the Transactions Shared Services team to ensure a strong working relation between teamwith the aim of continuous processes improvement and effective knowledge sharing
- Develop strong cross functional partnerships with various departments (e.g. Fuel, Merchandising, Operations and Maintenance, Payroll, HR, IT etc.)
- Support the specialist functions to develop commercial and operational understanding of key contracts to ensure finance accounting is in line with contractual understanding and commerciality
- Support the commercial team within the country finance team to prepare budgets and forecasts
- Provide financial planning and analysis support to the country finance team to assist in delivering financial targets, with a focus on cash generation and return on investment
- Focus on YoY performance and understand key underlying business trends to support continuous financial and operational improvement
- Challenge existing and develop new financial processes to ensure timely and accurate reporting, creating workflow efficiencies where possible
- Ensure adherence to IFRS accounting standards
- Ensure all local audit requirements are met
- Review of monthly management accounts from trial balance to financial statements
- Oversee the effectiveness and efficiency of operational processes
- Ad-hoc projects as required
Skills/Qualifications:

- CIMA, ACCA or ACA qualified accountant
- Previous senior leadership, commercial, and business partnering
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills


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