Financial Controller
Location: Swansea, office based
Our client is a rapidly growing success story, dominating their market place in the UK and conquering new international markets and not yet ten years old. They're brand led and dynamic, profitable and entrepreneurial and are transitioning from a medium to large organisation. As such, they're building their internal teams in support of this and readying for ongoing growth, driving greater professionalism, stronger processes and more robust controls.
In line with this, they seek to appoint a Qualified Accountant, as Financial Controller - reporting to the Finance Director, this is a new role. The fast growth of the Business over the past few years has led to a need for increased compliance, governance and process, in the UK, Europe and the US. With two direct reports (at least initially), it requires a sleeves rolled up approach, from someone exited to carve out their own role and make their mark. This is very much a build and grow situation, being part of a crucial professionalisation stage and, for the right person, it will be a very exciting/rewarding challenge. This role could be perfect for someone looking for their first FC role or an experienced and proven Financial Controller, with a passion for change in a fast-paced environment, would be very valuable in building an "best practice" function.
Responsibilities
- Building of a new 13 week cashflow forecast model and reporting pack, along with ongoing update
- Responsible for monthly balance sheet reconciliations
- Responsible for vendor payments and associated approvals and reporting
- Creation of monthly working capital reporting and interpretation and communication of insights and issues
- Working with Operations team and other key stakeholders to ensure system records are accurate and any issues are overcome
- Responsible for creation of key policies and procedures, principally Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Inventory and Treasury
- Filing of the monthly UK VAT return
- Ensuring third party agency has the required information in a timely manner to file VAT returns in Netherlands
- Responsible for daily bank reconciliations and business banking, across multi currencies
- Reconciliation of excise duty account on monthly basis and payment of amount owed
- Leading on the annual audit, with top 10 audit firm conducting the audit (for the first time in 2024)
- Creation of quarterly Board working capital reporting for CFO
- Responsible for UK payroll, run in-house and non-UK payrolls, processed by third party agents
- Requirement to feed into FP&A team to aid management accounts accuracy and timeliness
If you have the ability and experience to excel in this role and are interested in applying, please send your CV for immediate review.