Financial Controller

**2+ days per week** **£30 per hour + Hybrid Working + Benefits**: - Are you an experienced Financial Controller looking for a genuinely unique, part time role offering the opportunity to use your commercial and financial expertise whilst indulging your passion for accounting systems and apps?_ - Want to be part of a well-established, fast moving and growing business, where you could make a real difference and be valued for your contribution to our success and that of our clients?_ **We are looking for a commercially savvy, technology driven Financial Controller to** - **be our Financial Controller -**working with the part time finance manager and management accountant, making sure our money is well managed, our systems and processes are optimised, giving us (the two Directors) the intelligence and metricswe need to be most successful and taking responsibility for our forecasting and budgeting. - **lead the technical development of the YRH Best Practice "Blueprint", which our team adopt when they work with our clients.**This is about helping us stay at the front of our market, assessing the technology and the apps that are out there and helping our team understand and use this emerging tech so we can work smarter with clients and provide more value to them. **Who we are**: YRH Finance Team helps SME businesses professionalise their finance function, partly through implementing our proven best practice and partly by providing the finance people they need to run their finance function. We launched in 2007 and we are probably themarket leader in our service. Our growth has escalated in the last 3 three years as we've expanded across the UK - we're already 69% up on the same period last year. We are part of a wider family of companies providing part-time professionals in finance, HR,IT and marketing, across the UK and in 17 other countries around the world. Our purpose is to help SME business owners be more successful and feel happier, and we do this by professionalising their accounting function; enabling them to access, and implement, accounting best practice and work with the best finance people - streamliningtheir accounting process and preparing and explaining financial information that positively impacts profit and cashflow. Working between 8 and 10 days per month with the potential for the role to grow in line with the business, you'll split your time between home and the Farnborough company HQ with the ability_ to flex upon the needs of the business._ **Key Responsibilities**: - Provision of monthly, quarterly and annual financial and management reporting - Managing the day-to-day financial work, finance team and accounts platform (Xero) - Developing our suite of existing kpi's and automating the reporting - Sales and marketing analytics, financial modelling, forecasts and budget management - Developing and codifying the YRH Client Delivery Best Practice "Blueprint" and helping our team embed this best practice into their client work. - Keeping up to date with systems and technology platforms in our market, developing relationships with the platform providers, assessing how we could use them to provide better services to clients and building them into our own client delivery. - Training our team on technology platforms and apps (mostly Xero, Sage and QB related apps) - using the platform resources where you can - Working with the marketing team to develop material for the internal newsletter and for prospect marketing (ideas not finished content). - You are a qualified Financial Controller, with 5+ years commercial experience and have previously managed a finance team - You are passionate about the latest technology - curious and analytical - but also able to see the big picture - You've trained finance people before, formally or informally, in person and online - You are proficient in cashflow, forecasting, budgeting, KPI management, system & process improvements and implementations, balance sheet/control account reconciliations and are able to produce a full set of management accounts and present and explain themat board level - You are a Xero expert and preferably also have experience with Sage 50 and QuickBooks - You are a proficient Excel user (specifically in: pivot tables, modelling, sumif and vlookup formulas), Power BI and Power Excel an advantage - You can work quickly AND accurately, as well as being highly organised and driven to achieve results - You want to be part of an organisation that is committed to helping SME business owners be more successful and feel happier - You have at least 8 days a month available to work with us and can easily travel to Farnborough when required - You have excellent written and oral English language skills and can communicate confidently, clearly and effectively, with all stakeholders - including directors - You are confident, resourceful, take pride in your contribution, able to work to deadlines, well organised, calm and energetic - Happy to work on your own and take responsibility for projects and to work as part of a team. If this role sounds like you, then we look forward to hearing from you and hopefully welcoming you into our growing team.