Financial Controller
Chessington
Hybrid option to WFH up to 1 day per week
Salary: £50k - £55k
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Line management of the finance team
- Timely and accurate production of management accounts
- Overall responsibility for all finance functions
- Responsibility for risk management including banking, insurance and audits
- Financial reporting to senior management to inform business decisions
- Payroll submission and reporting, including calculation of commissions
- KPI / Scorecard reporting
KEY DUTIES:
- Monthly management accounts and supporting reconciliations, for all P&L and Balance sheet
accounts.
- Monthly VAT returns - reconciling and submitting
- Monthly KPI / scorecard reports
- Monthly payroll submission including pension contributions
- Ensuring all purchase invoices are processed in a timely manner, including authorising invoices.
- Supplier payments runs, including reviewing the proposed payments
- Weekly invoice factor reconciliation and submission
- Understanding credit limits and exposure to bad debt
- Ad hoc financial reports and analysis
- Foreign currency trades
- Cash flow management
- Statutory compliance and filing
- Annual company insurance renewals
- Additional administration and queries for non-trading companies and overseas entities
- Holiday cover for other members/functions of the finance team.
SKILLS/COMPETENCIES:
- Fully qualified (ACA / ACCA preferred) with minimum 2 years post qualification experience or
QBE (qualified by experience)
- Ideally a combination of experience from practice and commerce
- A proven track record within a distribution environment
- SME experience
- Line management experience
- Excellent Microsoft Office skills, specifically Excel incl. Vlookups and Pivot Tables
- Experience working with an ERP system, ideally Netsuite
- Experience with payroll administration
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Liaise with all levels of staff within the business
- Ability to problem solve with a commercial approach
- Attention to detail
- Flexible and willing to proactively take on work that will not traditionally be part of the
finance role.