Financial Controller

6 days ago

Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom ForrestBrown Full time

The role

Are you an experienced Finance professional looking for a career with purpose? This is it.

We're ForrestBrown, a firm of chartered tax advisers specialising in research and development (R&D) tax, but also helping to amplify the benefits of scientific and technological advancement across a range of innovation focused tax reliefs. Our team has substantial experience and technical expertise, which, combined with our passion for our clients and entrepreneurial spirit, helps us deliver outstanding results for a wide portfolio of innovative clients.

As part of our team, you'll experience a career with purpose that you won't get anywhere else - supporting the delivery of valuable tax credits to UK businesses. Our finance team are pivotal in delivering that benefit to our clients, so this is a role where you can have real impact.

We're looking to recruit a Financial Controller to manage our day-to-day finance operations and own our month end processes. You'll manage some of our annual financial compliance activity such as our VAT and Corporation Tax, and our audit processes. You'll take specific responsibility for our sales ledger and debtor processes, but also oversee our purchase ledger, manage our bank reconciliations and payments. In addition, you'll support other activities such as delivering on our reporting requirements to our US parent company and manage our commission and expenses processes.

You'll be part of a small but mighty team - managing a Finance Assistant and working closely with our Finance Director. As a result, the value of your work is evident every day - our finance team are vital to the success of our business. And there's more - if you are keen to develop your career and really make an impact, over time you can take on additional responsibilities such as full ownership of our year end audit and our annual budgeting process.

What are we looking for? Well, we need an experienced pair of hands to manage our daily finance activities relatively autonomously so the successful candidate will have significant experience of managing all daily accounting processes for a business. You'll also likely be ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified. As important though, will be strong communication skills that enable you to develop successful relationships with both internal and external stakeholders, an eye for detail and the ability to meet deadlines. Above all, you'll be a real doer - someone who can thrive under pressure and has the drive to keep pushing the department onto bigger and better things, all within a rapidly changing business. If you can add to that familiarity with the latest cloud accounting systems such as Xero then you could be our perfect match.

In return you can expect to join an entrepreneurial, award-winning business, with the chance to work with like-minded people. So, if you're a budding Financial Controller looking for a new challenge, or an experienced Finance Manager looking to make the step up to Financial Controller, and you're excited by the opportunity to make your mark and grow your skills, we'd love to hear from you.

We welcome applications from candidates that appreciate flexibility in their work schedule. At ForrestBrown, our culture thrives on collaboration, learning, and celebrating success together. While we embrace flexibility, we operate with a predominantly office-based structure, where employees spend at least three days in our vibrant offices (Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays), with hybrid working options available for the remaining days. Part-time applicants will also be considered; more important to the role are the skills, personal attributes and level of experience the right candidate can bring to the role, not how many hours they work.

Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for employment visas at this time. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship.

*As this role is within our Finance team, any successful candidate will be subject to our enhanced pre-employment checks before an offer of employment is confirmed. This includes a DBS check as well as conflicts checks via our SmartSearch system. If you have any questions about our processes before making an application please contact the Recruitment Team at careers@forrestbrown.co.uk.

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