Our retained client based in Ellesmere Port are looking to recruit a Financial Controller.
Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO's) Chief Financial Officer (CFO), & Chief Operating Officer (COO), this position involves a broad spectrum of operational responsibilities and requires a wide range of knowledge and experience.
The Financial Controller is tasked with overseeing the extensive variety of duties undertaken by the finance department, including setting targets and supporting individual departments to create and maintain their budgets.
The Financial Controller is to maintain all financial systems, identifying areas that require improvement and implementing necessary changes to support business development.
Financial Controller's daily duties may include the following activities:
- Supervise the preparation of month end accounts and VAT returns
- Ensure the completion of bank and balance sheet reconciliations
- Budget analysis
- Managing the audit process and liaising with external personnel
- Oversee the preparation of year end statutory accounts
- Managing, mentoring and motivating the accounts team
- Budgeting & forecasting
- Contributing to company financial strategy and decision-making process
- Undertaking financial analysis and reporting
- Ensuring robust financial systems and processes are in place
- Overseeing tax and compliance
- Developing forecasting models (P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow)
- Analyse financial information to assist business profitability and growth
- Provide accurate and sound management reporting to assist with key decision making
- Produce month end and year end journals
- Prepare statutory and management accounts
- Contribute to annual budgeting and planning process
- Manage capital expenditure
- Produce financial statements including P&L accounts, cash flows, variance analysis and commentaries
- Accountability for cash flow and production of forecasts
- Review company assets and liabilities
- Prepare monthly reconciliations for all accounts
- Assessment of monthly expenses
- Calculation, presentation and payment of VAT
- Production of relevant commercial analysis e.g. margins and pricing
This role is a site -based role, although working from home is an option , but candidates must be able to get to the office. This is also a retained role so any suitable candidates will be met by our retained consultant week commencing the 29th of July.