Financial Controller
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| Job Type | Permanent / Full Time |
| Area | Essex, England |
| Sector | Accounting - Financial Controller |
| Salary | Competitive |
| Start Date | ASAP |
| Advertiser | remoteapi |
| Job Ref | 473763A |
| Job Views | 576 |
- Description
- Our client in Waltham Abbey is looking for a Financial Controller. The client is a well established global business and is growing.
Do you have experience in Stock management/logistics or distribution? If so, this is desirable for the business.
Competitive salary depending on experience
Annual Performance Bonus
Monday - Friday 9-5.30pm fully Office based with some flexibility to work from home once established.
This role is integral to supporting the Chief Financial Officer, Senior Leadership Team and Board with financial information, analysis, and processes. The successful candidate will be logical, highly organised and with demonstrable experience of working strategically and operationally, while embracing the dynamic culture. Leading the team to deliver the day to day and the long-term strategy, it is imperative there is substantial experience of strong technical accounting & controllership in growing SME businesses, while ability to be flexible in carrying out various duties.
The main responsibilities of this role are:
- Supporting the preparation of all budget and financial forecasting and reporting, understanding the variances and being able to interpret them for all stakeholders
- Responsible for month-end general ledger management
- Month-end/ Year-end reporting and audit queries
- Quarterly VAT Returns
- Balance sheet reconciliations
- Line management of stock controller and accounts assistant
- Lead various system implementations around Sage 200
- Monitor and review Cash Flow Reporting while providing analysis around this
- Overseeing the preparation and publishing all monthly financial statements and data
- Creating reports (annually and monthly) for various stakeholders that interprets information on results, trends, and forecasts
- Overview of all financial processes to ensure fully compliant
- Overseeing all audit processes
- Reviewing all financial data to identify opportunities and communicating effectively with all affected stakeholders
- Working closely with the SLT and Operational stakeholders to interpret data and understand all opportunities, impacts and cost control
- Leading the Finance Team, supporting all learning and development and managing the team day to day
- Support the financial strategy and decision making of the business
- Support the Chief Financial Officer with all financial data and information interpretation, including, Board reports, SLT reports, forecasting and budgeting
What you will need:
- Ideally ACCA, CIMA or ACA qualified or qualified by experience
- Previous experience of working within the accountancy and finance sector.
- Strong Excel and ERP system skills (Sage 200/or others)
- Practical experience in dealing with stocks
- Previous experience in producing management accounts
- Previous experience in dealing directly with key stakeholders.