Finance Director
- Recruiter
- Alumasc
- Location
-
Halstead, Essex
HalsteadHertfordshire
- Salary
- Up to £85,000 per annum + bonus, car and benefits
- Posted
- 04 May 2018
- Closes
- 04 Jun 2018
- Ref
- FD01
- Job Title
- Chief Financial Officer
- Category
- Engineering
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Finance Director
Halstead, Essex but with requirement to travel on occasion.
circa £75,000 to £85,000, DOE
THE ALUMASC GROUP COMPANY INFORMATION
Alumasc is a UK based supplier of premium building and precision engineering products. The majority of the group's business is in the area of sustainable building products, which enable customers to manage energy and water use in the built environment. All Alumasc businesses have strong UK market positions within their individual market niches and several are market leaders. Alumasc sustains this strong strategic positioning by offering customers quality products, service and trust. For certain brands, Alumasc is seeking to leverage UK successes in international markets, with particular focus in North America and parts of the Middle East and Far East. Alumasc fosters an entrepreneurial, achievement orientated culture whereby businesses are encouraged to innovate and respond quickly to local market needs within a cohesive group strategic and management framework.
Alumasc businesses benefit from the group's financial strength and access to capital. The Group's central strategy is to develop a market-leading position in the supply of products and solutions for managing water and energy in buildings. This marketplace embraces both new-build and refurbishment activities and presents some specific opportunities outside Alumasc's UK base. In addition to the continuing drive for organic growth, acquisitions will be considered where they complement this focused development.
ALUMASC WATER MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
Alumasc Water Management Solutions (AWMS) is a new name in the industry for proven water management. It's a new coordinated brand that harnesses the expertise of four trusted brands in water management.
- Skyline: Fascia, Soffit and Copings
- Alumasc Rainwater: Gutters and Downpipes
- Harmer: Building Drainage
- Wade: Building Drainage
- Gatic: Civil Drainage
Alumasc has been promoting the efficient use, retention, recycling and disposal of water within the built environment for over 70 years. Now, it combines the knowledge and unique benefits of these brands to provide one bespoke solution in water management.
Each of the core brands is a respected name in its own right, renowned for innovation, quality and outstanding support. Now under the WMS banner, the brands combined strengths are providing customers with an unrivalled breadth of expertise and skills from brands they know and trust.
Rain to Drain
Whether you are managing rainwater, surface water or waste water, controlling water in the built environment has never been more important than now. New flood prevention legislation, tighter water quality standards and advancing sustainable building practices puts greater pressure on products and processes to manage water effectively and efficiently in commercial and residential settings.
Alumasc Water Management Solutions has the specialist knowledge and range of industry-leading products to help you manage water originating inside or outside the building, protecting structures and providing solutions to convey it safely to discharge into water course, sewer or ground.
Skyline, Alumasc Rainwater, Harmer, Wade and Gatic: a coherent, fully integrated water management solution for every stage.
FINANCE DIRECTOR - THE ROLE
Reporting to the local Managing Director, with a dotted line responsibility to the Group Finance Director, this role will have financial responsibility for the Wade division of the Alumasc Water Management Solutions business.
This division of the business is based in Halstead, Essex and is of a reasonable size with a credible growth/expansion strategy. Expectations are that the division will employ c.100 employees and generate revenues of close to £20m within the next 12-18 months.
This role will be required to recruit and lead a team to service the division as it expands significantly.
KEY OBJECTIVES
- To partner the Managing Director in providing financial leadership and advice to help drive, implement and deliver on strategic objectives, business plans and budgets.
- Deliver robust budgets, forecasts & monthly results with meaningful and insightful commentary on commercial and cost drivers to ensure appropriate accountability of budget holders and to drive the business forwards.
- Provide financial insight, quality analysis and commercial recommendations to support informed decision making.
- Build robust non-financial KPIs for use in the business and reporting in monthly board packs around commercial and operational aspects of the business.
- Become a key stakeholder and project team member responsible for ongoing improvements and integrations of Microsoft Dynamics ERP system and implementation of an associated Microsoft Dynamics CRM implementation across the division in the next 12 months.
- Ensure that costs within the business are justified, well managed and controlled and that a zero-based bottom-up budgeting process is in place across the businesses, working with the management and purchasing teams. Lead on ensuring there is budgetary cost discipline across the division.
- Drive continual improvements in costing to enable the business to better understand its true manufacturing costs and enable it to target efficiency savings and operational improvements.
- Provide overall leadership for financial reporting, business information, IT, treasury management, and property management, working with and supported by local resources and the group's specialist resources in these areas.
- Be the champion of group policies, business risk management and internal control for the division within the group's Combined Code obligations, including ensuring that the local delegated authority matrix is up to date, relevant and well understood by managers across the division.
- Implementing working capital initiatives to continually improve profit conversion into cash.
- Providing training, counsel and support to the management and finance teams on legislative and corporate policies and practices.
- Provide leadership, coaching and development for the local finance team.
- Keep the Group Finance Director abreast of key developments and seek timely input and buy-in as appropriate.
KEY REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ROLE
- Proven experience within manufacturing organisations (experience with production costings essential), a hands-on doer who is comfortable with a “sleeves rolled up” approach
- Exceptional skills in communication, motivation, and interpersonal relations, and able to convey a message that is understandable and relevant, linking business issues, financial results and strategy
- Ability to set direction and standards but to do this in a collaborative way in a team environment
- Experience of operating at the highest level of professionalism and personal integrity
- A passion for continuous improvement and a strong sense of accountability
- Highly analytical, technically proficient and a confident financial management leader
- Qualified Accountant
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
- A strong leader and motivator
- An innovator with high standards and exceptional communication skills
- Energetic and determined team player, results orientated with a strong work ethic
- Able to challenge, improve and develop existing practices
- Honest and open outlook
- Able to simplify complexity
- Enlightened, progressive, results orientated style. "Hands on" operator with evidence of strong leadership and personal authority, as well as communication and people management skills
- High degree of integrity
- An enthusiastic outlook, charismatic and with a good sense of humour
REMUNERATION & PACKAGE
Competitive basic salary, circa £75,000 to £85,000, depending on experience
- Company bonus up to 35%
- Health care
- Pension scheme
- Company car/allowance
LOCATION OF THE ROLE
Halstead, Essex but with requirement to travel on occasion.