Head of Finance

**Purpose of the Role**:
**Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Produce and oversee monthly Management Accounts to ensure completion to a high standard.
- Must have the ability to discuss the accounts in detail in a leadership team board pack meeting
- . Continually adapt and improve management reports as agreed with the Finance Director.
- Perform key balance sheet reconciliations and ensure the transactional team’s reconciliations are complete and accurate.
- Manage a team of sales ledger clerk, purchase ledger clerk cost control officer and train them to upskill their ability.
- Review variance analysis and commentary in support of the Board pack.
- Responsible for the Business’ Management Information function, including the Commercial Decisions Register and other reports.Monitor the cashflow position of the business when assessing payment runs and approvals.
- Communicate with interdependent departments to resolve queries and get to root cause of issues to ensure they do not occur again - focusing on the risk process.Identify areas of improvement and establish innovative or adjust existing work place procedures and practices.
- Produce high quality work to assist management in making key strategic decisions.
- Take responsibility for all of the annual budgets/forecasts, including the management of the Business’ expense budgets.
- Full monitoring of the cost benefit analysis element of the business.
- Reviewing and assessing all Investment proposals submitted to Finance to establish prospects of return.
- Work effectively to meet deadlines and organise workload and priorities.
- Other ad-hoc duties as prescribed by the Finance Director.
- The above is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities and may vary dependent on Business Need. The business reserves the right to amend this Job Description at any given time without your consent to reflect the changing needs of the business._

**Person Specification**
- Minimum Qualified
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA or Part Qualified with 5+ years accounts experience.
- Experience of Sage 200 accounting package would be advantageous.
- Excellent IT skills and highly proficient with MS Excel.
- Strong spreadsheet manipulation skills.
- Ability to input, retrieve and analyse data.
- Ability to develop and improve report formats in line with business needs.
- Ability to deliver accurate, high quality work and reports to aid decision making.
- Hands-on commitment to getting the job done.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong organisational and time management skills.
- Consistent performance even when under pressure.
- Self-motivation and drive with the ability to motivate own team.
- Able to communicate effectively at all levels and to do so with confidence.
- Proven relationship and approachable nature.
- Flexible approach to work, willing to play a full role in ensuring the success of the team.
- Wealth of experience from working in variety of business’.
- Pro-active and approachable nature.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Additional pay:

- Performance bonus

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- On-site parking
- Store discounts
- Wellness programmes

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Blackburn, BB1 2EH: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Produce, oversee monthly Management Accounts & board pack: 4 years (required)
- managing a team and train to up skill their ability: 3 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

- ACA, ACCA or CIMA Qualified (required)