Group Financial Controller

Group Financial Controller

Resourcery Group are partnering exclusively with one of the regions best employers as they look to appoint a new Financial Controller. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious, qualified accountant who wants to work for one of the region's recent success stories. This is a broad and interesting role and presents an opportunity to work as part of a high performing and well respected team.

The successful candidate will have a strong technical background, ideally with large practice experience and will be able to demonstrate extensive team management/development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical support to the wider finance team in relation to accounting standards and technical updates
• Support the financial reporting team in their CPD and technical development
• Manage relations with the auditors and oversee the interim and year-end audit work
• Review statutory accounts and ensure IFRS compliant
• Responsibility for reviewing the monthly management accounts, ensuring they are both accurate and meet the needs of the business
• Oversee the preparation of all quarterly and year end consolidated statutory accounts and supporting documentation is prepared to a high standard for review
• Ensure a strong control environment and improvement culture is embedded across the finance team.
• Build excellent working relations with the primary banks and funders
• Oversee the production and maintenance of the Group’s 3year cashflow and balance sheet plan
• Oversee the management of the company’s foreign currency requirements, including provision of accurate and timely information
• Ensure the business’ FX hedging strategy is being implemented and manage relations with FX providers.
• Responsible for the cashflow management of the business, including;
• Production of the annual cashflow forecast
• Ensure effective systems and processes are in place to support the business
• Embed culture of continuous improvement and standardisation within the Transactional Teams

Key Requirements:

• Qualified accountant (ideally ACA with audit experience).
• Experience of managing and developing large diverse teams
• Strong technical skills including IFRS
• Good communication and business partnering skills
• Commercial awareness including knowledge of financial markets (debt and currency markets).
• Experience of preparing consolidated accounts and statutory reporting
• Financial modelling skills
• Ability to build strong relationships internally and externally
• Self motivated and proactive individual
• Ability to and experience of working to tight deadlines

Who are Resourcery Group?

We are one of the North West’s most experienced and well-networked, independent Accounting & Finance, Change and Transformation recruitment consultancies.

Resourcery Group have grown quickly since inception and are now considered as the go-to recruitment partner and trusted adviser by many of the region’s leading employers, from owner-managed SMEs and PE-backed business to listed PLCs.

We are sector agnostic, finance specific. A local market expert with national reach.

Resourcery Group specialise in talent identification, attraction, resourcing and retention, providing our clients with a diverse pool of talent drawn from the Executive, Sub-Executive, Mid-Market and Newly Qualified, Part-Qualified and Transactional markets for Industry & Commerce, Public Sector and Not-for-Profit.

Please visit our website: www.resourcerygroup.com for more information on the business ethos and how we create value as part of the recruitment cycle, complimenting internal talent teams.