Financial Controller

**Role**: Financial Controller

**Location**:Bedale, North Yorkshire

**Group Company**: Xeinadin Group

**Who are we?**

The Xeinadin Group is a business advisory and accountancy group that combines the power of more than 100 firms from across the UK and Ireland. Our diverse team of over 1600 advisors benefit from an enviable bank of experience and resources, enabling themto inspire our clients to overcome challenges and achieve their business and personal goals.

With offices from Glasgow to Kingsbridge and Galway to Folkestone, our local offices build close working relationships with our clients whilst delivering much more than the traditional business advisor or accountancy firm. Working with us enables you andyour clients to plug into a national network of expertise and innovative technology.

Our reputation is built on innovative thinking delivered by industry-leading professionals with decades of experience, specialism, and achievement.

**About the Role**:
Act as the main contact at Hub level for dealing with Group finance queries on the firms and Group 's requests for information from the firms in the first instance. Responsible for the collation and review of the quality of information submitted by the firmsin response to these Group queries and information requests.
- Delivery of the monthly consolidated Hub financial reporting pack (including KPIs and commentary) to the Hub Director within timescales laid out by Group finance.
- Involve and develop key members of the administrative and support team within the Hub to enable projects to be implemented quickly and efficiently and to ensure adequate cover.
- Work with the Hub Director to design and implement appropriate controls and systems to ensure all Hub firms financial reporting is in line with Group requirements. Will include centralisation of financial control of the individual firms to the Hub.
- Implement and monitor robust credit control systems to enable detailed KPI reporting to the Hub Director. Liaise with the individual firms to ensure adoption of the credit control systems to enable KPI targets to be achieved.
- Assist the Hub Directors in implementation of the Hub banking system including transition of existing individual firm banking arrangements to Hub control.
- Lead the transition of clients to direct debit based payment across the Hub.
- Monitor cash balances across the Hub on an ongoing basis. Arrange for approval of payments where required in line with authority matrix.
- Assist in implementation and review of Practice Ignition and pricing across the Hub.
- Ensure individual firms supply information to the Hub within determined timescales and physically close individual firm ledgers in Xero for each accounting period.
- Review of individual firm balance sheets to ensure compliance with group finance policies, including regular review of key balance sheet reconciliations as set out by Group finance.
- Support the firms with implementation of group accounting and reporting policies and communicate updates to these as required.
- Review of firm standing data to ensure completeness and accuracy (including Chart of Accounts and standing customer data).
- Work closely with the Hub Director and the Group financial planners and analysts on the annual budgeting and ongoing forecasting/performance reporting for the Hub and individual firm submissions.
- Support and review firm completion of year end submissions and any additional statutory reporting submissions as required.
- Be the main Hub contact for the external auditors, collating Hub information and responding to the audit requests, with support from Group finance where required.

**About You**:

- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills
- Good analytical skills - able to review returns from individual firms before reviewing with Hub Director.
- Good working knowledge of IFRS
- Experience of using Xero
- Ideally experience of using Board
- Ideally ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified

Xeinadin’s vision is to be the most trusted business advisory and accountancy group for owner-managers of small and medium-sized enterprises across the UK and Ireland. We’re more than the sum of our parts so if you are interested in hearing more about theopportunity and journey we are on, please send your CV for immediate consideration.