Financial Controller

Are you a qualified finance professional who has gained experience within a Group background and are looking for your next step up?

Would you like the opportunity to continue to develop as a finance professional as the business continues on its journey of growth?

Transparent is proud to support a well-established and highly successful business with this key piece of recruitment. This represents a fantastic opportunity for someone who wants to truly add value.

Reporting into the Finance Director of this acquisitive and forward-thinking business, your duties will include the following:

• Providing leadership on financial control matters within the UK and, eventually, across the wider group
• Leading and managing a small finance team to include development and performance reviews
• Preparing management accounts, external investor material and financial information for a wide range of stakeholders
• Acting as a Finance Business Partner during new acquisition exercises
• Working with the Finance Director or other members of senior management on an ad hoc basis with regards to particular projects
• Overheads accounting – covering reporting, analysis, budgeting and forecasting; playing a key role in managing the annual budget process
• Liaising with staff across all office locations to ensure operational control and best practice
• Working with the finance team to ensure an efficient external audit as well as the preparation of statutory accounts
• Providing sound financial support to maximise commercial performance
• Cash flow forecasting, managing submission of VAT returns

The business is highly acquisitive and has many exciting projects in the pipeline so this is an ideal time for a proactive and driven individual to join. Someone who can demonstrate solid achievements during their career; someone who enjoys improving systems and processes for the good of the wider business.

This role will evolve as the business continues to grow, which will result in providing further opportunity for you to develop and progress in your chosen profession.

The person:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Some Group experience (consolidations)
• Highly motivated and dynamic in character
• Tenacious personality with the ability to influence other stakeholders
• Good Excel skills and previous systems upgrade/implementation exposure
• Strong technical accounting skills

In return, our client offers a competitive base salary, company-wide profit-related bonus scheme, company pension, life insurance, private healthcare cover, free parking on site and 26 days annual leave + Bank Holidays.