Financial Controller - Lincoln - £45k & benefits
Benjamin Edwards is currently recruiting for a progressive, fast-paced SME. The Financial Controller will work closely with the Finance Director and provide support with the day-to-day running of the Finance department. The role will encompass Management Accounts, Financial Accounts, and Treasury Management. The successful candidate will have strong commercial acumen; they will be instrumental in the development, planning, and implementation of accounting controls and processes as well as developing and delivering relevant management information.
What's on offer to the Financial Controller
- Competitive salary
- Bonus
- Great team
- Growing and expanding company
- Award-winning business
The role of the Financial Controller
- Preparation and analysis of monthly management accounts in a timely and accurate manner
- Managing the month-end and balance sheet process. Ensuring the process is robust and efficient, and that balance sheet accounts are understood, and balances are reconciled
- Monthly consolidation of businesses
- Treasury management and cashflow forecasting including forex management
- Undertaking bank reconciliations
- Processing of invoices and management of supplier payments
- Intercompany recharges and monitoring reconciliations between group companies
- Maintenance of the company's fixed asset register
- Responsibility for stock reporting and review of provisions
- Customer account profitability reporting and calculation of sales rebates and provisions and reporting to senior management
- Preparation of VAT returns and Intrastat submissions
- Supporting in the preparation of statutory accounts and liaising with auditors
- Assisting with the annual budgeting and forecasting processes
- Reviewing internal controls within the business and implementing changes where necessary
- Proactively building relationships with managers, providing professional advice/judgement to ensure issues are highlighted and addressed
- Carrying out ad-hoc tasks as assigned by the Finance Director
The ideal candidate for the role of Financial Controller
- Strong technical accountancy skills including management and statutory accounts and consolidations
- Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) or part qualified
- Thorough technical and legal understanding of statutory accounts, group consolidations, and auditing
- Good knowledge of all government taxes (VAT, PAYE & NIC, CT)