Financial Controller

4 weeks ago

Skelmersdale, United Kingdom Simpson Judge Ltd Full time

Financial Controller

Location - Skelmersdale
Salary - £55,000 DOE

Simpson Judge are working with a rapidly expanding logistics provider, with offices based in Skelmersdale. Reporting to a Finance Director, this is a great opportunity for an ambitious finance professional.

**Responsibilities**:

- Ownership of all month-end processes including payroll, and responsible for month-end closure. Produce month end reports and analysis.
- Coordinating the management of cash flow, debt, and debt collection. Including the maintenance of the business cash flow forecast.
- Supervising and managing financial department staff (12), including setting objectives and monitoring progress. Identify resource gaps and provide solutions to ensure the smooth operation of the department.
- Documenting business processes and accounting policies to maintain internal controls, and continuously challenging and improving the processes to suit business objectives (quality excellence, efficiency, relevance, etc).
- Build relationships with stakeholders and business partner across the wider company, using high quality, relevant information, and service delivery for the business to achieve its objectives.
- Key team contributor in the budgeting and forecasting process
- Overseeing the audit process and liaising with external personnel where required. Ensure the timely delivery and accuracy of annual audit schedules, including balance sheet reconciliations
- Support capital investment evaluation and planning, and other ad-hoc purchase activities to ensure that business quality and cost objectives are considered
- Ensuring that department work output is delivered efficiently and to a high standard. Streamlining and improving all accounting systems and processes.
- Ensure compliance to all relevant financial/accounting regulation (external and internal)
- Helping the CFO in presenting reports to board member and other senior executives.

Skills/ Experience:

- Financial accounting
- Cost control and analysis
- Production of regular monthly and annual reports
- Audit background
- Distribution environment
- Assesses and advises on the right strategies to manage business and organisational performance in relation to business and finance risk while communicating the impact effectively
- Recommends the right strategies to ensure the organisation adheres to governance structures and applies best practice internal controls
- Agile and flexible in your approach
- Self-starter and possess a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Organised and proactive individual
- Ability to challenge the business to make effective decisions whilst being cost-conscious. Use business and commercial acumen awareness to deliver business objectives
- Resilient and robust under scrutiny and challenge
- Ability to build strong and productive working relationships within multi-disciplined teams, whilst maintaining independence and integrity
- Is proactive and strategic in anticipating organisational needs while recognising the wider business environment

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