Financial Controller
- Recruiter
- Gleeson Recruitment Ltd
- Location
-
England, Berkshire, Reading
ReadingBerkshire
- Salary
- £70000 - £85000 per annum + Bonus / PHI / LA
- Posted
- 23 May 2023
- Closes
- 31 May 2023
- Ref
- 33971
- Job Title
- Financial Controller
- Category
- Accountancy
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Financial Controller - Reading
We are working exclusively with a sophisticated US manufacturing client (NYSE listed) with operations across 30 territories.
A broad controllership opportunity within this highly collaborative and inclusive environment. The role is a broad mix of commercial and reporting working and supporting operations, sales, engineering teams.
Managing a small, effective and friendly established team. This is a superb opportunity to support the growth strategy for this established and successful business.
Reporting to the General Manager
Location: Reading / hybrid - 3 days min office requirement
Objective:
Job Functions:
Qualifications:
Experience and Competencies:
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We are working exclusively with a sophisticated US manufacturing client (NYSE listed) with operations across 30 territories.
A broad controllership opportunity within this highly collaborative and inclusive environment. The role is a broad mix of commercial and reporting working and supporting operations, sales, engineering teams.
Managing a small, effective and friendly established team. This is a superb opportunity to support the growth strategy for this established and successful business.
Reporting to the General Manager
Location: Reading / hybrid - 3 days min office requirement
Objective:
- Responsibility for the management and control of company finances, in conjunction with the General Manager
- Responsibility for the functioning of the company ERP system
- To act as the Company Secretary
Job Functions:
- Leadership of finance team (3)
- Supervising the processing of accounting information to enable the accurate preparation of a monthly management accounting pack. Ensuring the timely transfer of the resulting information onto the corporate financial systems
- Responsible for weekly flash and monthly close revenue reporting process and completion of ancillary tasks on the closing checklist
- Presentation of financial results in leadership team and all hands meetings
- Responsible for function of the ERP system including finance routines, issue resolution, and implementation of patches
- Preparation of the annual financial accounting pack and tax computation with all back up documentation that is required to ensure the satisfactory completion of the year end audit
- Managing the cash flow of the company by controlling the timely collection of customer balances and the timely payment of supplier balances
- Working with the leadership team in the preparation of the annual budget, quarterly forecasts and long-range plan. Monitoring, reporting and explanation of variances between actuals and budget / forecast.
- Responsible for the project accounting process, including the correct accounting classification and timely closure of projects, and the monthly project completion review processes
- Preparation, submission and authorisation of capex requests and spend, and oversight of inventory and WIP cycle counting processes
- Maintenance of appropriate records and the preparation and timely execution of the monthly salaries
- Timely and accurate preparation of the quarterly VAT returns, and dealing with the providers of business insurance and banking services
- To provide data and insight, both financial and non-financial, and to lead the roll out of Power BI reporting, and to undertake special projects as required
- Undertake Company Secretarial duties, including maintaining company records and minuting board meetings, and completing government surveys
- Working with sales, operations and engineering departments to improve the accuracy of the standard costing system. Working with the sales and marketing teams to ensure business is appropriately priced.
Qualifications:
- Must hold a recognised accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
Experience and Competencies:
- Minimum of 5 years accountancy experience
- Must be familiar with standard costing and modern ERP systems, and be an experience user of Microsoft Office with strong Excel
- Must be capable of performing the Company secretarial role
- Manufacturing experience preferred and exposure to long term contract accounting would be beneficial
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