Financial Leader

About the Job

• Business Partnering
• Financial Leadership
• Team Management
• Strategic Planning

As a Financial Controller, you will play a key role in championing business process and controls, analysing data to identify performance improvements, building an informative reporting structure, and engaging with the wider business to improve financial understanding and performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Management of the day to day accounts function, focusing on deadlines, automation, and control processes.
• High-quality financial reporting - profit and cash flow forecasts, budget production and presentation, management accounts, external benchmarking - all helping to facilitate key management decisions.
• Coaching and providing feedback to operational managers to drive understanding of their financial responsibilities.
• Engaging in discussions with the wider team to encourage improvement.
• Building key financial relationships (for example, bank, external audit, property, insurance).
• Continuing to refine our compliance and risk management approach.
• Proactive tax compliance and planning - PAYE, VAT, and corporation tax.
• Managing fixed assets and company property portfolio.
• Involvement and input in wider company and organisational matters.
• Leading and developing the finance team to support their career development and build business collaboration.

Requirements

• Relationship building and collaboration.
• Desire to develop and support business process improvement.
• Experience in developing and managing a team.
• Wide range of practical financial skills (advanced Excel, financial reporting, development, and production of scorecards).
• Professional finance qualification.
• Experience in managing data transformation improvements.
• Ability to interpret and organize large amounts of data through spreadsheets.
• Ability to engage and influence at a senior level, both within the organisation and externally.

Benefits

• A share of service charge, giving you potentially up to an extra 1,500 per year.
• 50% discount in our restaurants, 20% discount in our shops and online, and discounted hotel stays and cookery courses.
• Free meal for two - after one year with us, you'll get a complimentary meal for two people in one of our restaurants, every year.
• Local corporate gym membership, giving a 15% discount off all-inclusive enrolment (gym, swim, classes).
• A values-based culture recognised as one of the top 100 companies to work for in the UK.
• Training and development - we'll support your development with regular discussions, support, and coaching to help you learn and improve.
• Holidays - you'll get 28 days paid holiday which increases after two years.
• Free parking and refreshments at our office space in St Eval.