Job Title: Financial Controller
Responsible to: Chief Financial Officer
Based: Marden, Kent
Salary: £60 -£65k
Benefits include:
Pension after 3 months
- Life cover from day 1
- Health shield cash plan after 7 months
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Great company culture
- EAP
- Long service awards
- Lots of employee wellbeing initiatives
Job Purpose:
Oversee and manage the financial operations and accounting activities within the organisation.
Mian Tasks/ Responsibilities:
- Assist in Cash flow reporting and forecasting
- Liaise with Bankers and external credit providers when required
- Liaise with credit insurers (overseas only) including declaration of overdue foreign invoices to credit insurers and annual return
- Support annual budget process
- Assist in the preparation of monthly Group management reporting pack
- Ensure Balance sheet accounts are reconciled on a monthly basis
- Management of Fixed Assets investment process, including maintenance of fixed asset register
- Monitor and control Overhead expenditure via monthly cost centre reporting, ensuring SAP system structure is up to date and relevant
- Assist in annual audits, both UK and Group French audit
- Assist in Annual stock take process completed by the Production teams
- Collate annual statutory accounts, partnering with SLT member where required
- Drive improvement in SAP governance and process compliance
- Provide support to the Sales team to ensure minimum Group margin expectations are met, including tender creation
- Management of IPR Chassis import declarations
- Monitor all tax and regulatory compliance issues, including VAT, ONS returns
- Control of Employee expenses online claim portal
- Management of Finance assistants (3), covering Accounts Payable and Receivable
- Provide cover for Management accountant and CFO
- Support our project to upgrade from SAP bridge to SAP 4/HANA, group wide roll out programme
- Liaise with Insurers on day to day matters and manage the annual renewal process
- Liaise with external advisors to seek clarification and guidance where required
- Any other ad-hoc requests from the CFO
Skills and Abilities:
- Strong Excel experience and knowledge
- SAP experience
- Strong attention to detail
- Co-operative approach to both internal and external stakeholders
- Collaborative management style
- O365 suite of products experience
- Power BI
What we expect from you:
- To ensure that all duties and responsibilities are discharged in accordance with the Company's policies and procedures, code of conduct and relevant regulations and legislation.
- To comply with the Company's Health and safety Policy and to take such steps as are reasonably practicable for their own health and safety and that of their colleagues at work. They must comply with their safety responsibilities and must cooperate with management in all respects of the full implementation of the Company's Health and Safety Policy.
- To work flexibly to meet the needs of the job; organising and delivering all work on time and to agreed quality standards.
- To interact on a professional level with colleagues and seeks to establish and maintain productive relationships to promote collaborative working as appropriate across the Company.
- To undertake training necessary for the efficient conduct of duties and adherence to Company policies and procedures.
Our values:
- Respect
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Recognition
- Quality
Not withstanding the job purpose, duties and responsibilities included in this job description, the post holder must be prepared to undertake additional tasks, duties and responsibilities at the discretion of their Line Manager that fall within the objectives of the Company.
This job description reflects the present requirements of the post, and as duties and responsibilities change/develop, the job description will be reviewed and be subject to amendment in consultation with the post holder
TPA are a specialist recruitment agency recruiting on behalf of our client.
If you think you are a close fit for this position, please do apply and we will also register you for any upcoming positions that may be suitable.