Financial Leadership Expert

2 weeks ago


Altrincham, United Kingdom Dickson O'Brien Associates Full time
Job Title: Group Financial Controller

We are seeking a highly skilled Group Financial Controller to join our client in South Manchester on a 15-month contract.

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified accountant to take on a leadership role and drive the day-to-day running of finance and all financial matters for the Group.

The successful candidate will have a strong grounding in process and control, excellent communication and relationship building skills, and the ability to provide credible constructive challenge and support to both Board members and business managers across all business functions.

Salary: Estimated salary £60,000 - £80,000 per annum, depending on experience.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Financial accounting and external reporting
  • Provide oversight and guidance to Investor Relations Director with work on the annual report and content and other external statements (RNS, Presentation materials, Subsidiary stats etc)
  • Manage the audit process and day-to-day relationship with the external auditors
  • Preparation of Board reports and commentaries, Audit Committee papers and presentations at Audit Committee
  • Accounting, budgeting and forecasting
  • Oversee preparation of management accounts and KPI packs on a monthly basis, including full P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statement
  • Ensure proactive business partner relationship with function leaders; provide commercially insightful KPIs tailored to each business functions requirements
  • Delivery of the annual budget
  • Preparation of cashflow, P&L and Balance sheet forecasts
  • Reporting and tracking of Capex and project spend
  • Manage transactional accounting teams for Credit Control, Banking and Accounts Payable
  • Ensure KPIs reported and tracked with emphasis on continuous improvement of processes and controls.
  • Own forecast process for corporate cost centres, capital expenditure and working capital balances and cash flows.
  • Own annual budgeting of balance sheet, tax, financing costs and cash flows.
  • Financial business partner / Operational support
  • Contribute to decision making for acquisitions via the investment committee.
  • Team management & development
  • Provide robust leadership and development to the Finance Team; Ensure that the finance team possesses the skills to manage, to a high standard of excellence, the finances of a business of the current and planned scale of the Group; Ensure that reporting deadlines are understood and met;
  • Work with team members to create high quality development plans and appropriate training


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